As to a poster talking about bad and good Latinos, I have an opinion on that, based on my observations as a foreigner. People bring their culture with them, wherever they come from. When we look at the countries they come from, we can see that corruption is part and parcel of the cultures they grow up in. So they do bring that, and even though there is a lot of good in their culture, they unfortunately carry this over here as well.

Your attempted dig at Americans is betraying your ignorance. Latino/a is a term used in the US to refer to people from South America. While there may be some actual Spanish (or other Mediterranean) blood in latin people from Spanish conquests, the majority of latin people do not share blood with Europeans. Your blanket statement suggests otherwise and is misleading and uninformed. (I know you used “most latinos” and will likely try to use that as a fallback, but even then, no, it is not “most”)

I will agree on the point that many of the latin people I have met do have very good values and work ethics. Then again I have met those that do not. It’s almost like one could find both good and bad in all races. Huh.

The movie was not about him being denied because of his race as someone else stated. It was due to his lack of skills. They even addressed this. I will say that they that there were two particular lines during this discussion where the wife seemed to kind of take a stab at “whites” but the main character kind of brushed her off and kind of corrected here. I think these two lines might have been what turned people off and started calling it woke. I don’t feel like they were over the top by any means, and the main character sort of corrected / dismissed the statement. I should point out that these lines were factual in what they said. So I took it with a grain of salt.

There was another scene where the secretary thinks he is a janitor. It was never stated the reasoning but it was played out as if it was because of his race. However, this drove part of the story, and again was not over the top. I felt it was justified and was well done. It was not preachy but kind of made a joke about it later in the movie. It felt it fit with the story.

These were really the only things I saw that stood out as being woke, and I felt that they really weren’t and could easily be argued as realistic for its time.

Overall I thought the story was great. It pulled at the heartstrings, but in a good way. It is a feel good movie, and as far as “Wokeness” goes I would say on a scale of 1-10, I would rate it a 0.5. Nothing like these other movies coming out. I really agree with its rating of being “Non-Woke”.

At the time of this writing, I am not for or against the movie, as I have not seen it yet, but I am very interested. I will be curious to see how they handle the topics.

Merit: The antithesis of the woke agenda.

Great movie

I’m as unwoke as they come and believe me, this movie is worth it. It’s a great story, and the message is uplifting for any viewer. It doesn’t pander to a specific group. The message is clear, no matter who you are, if you put in the hard work, you can achieve anything you set your mind to. And the performance by Peña is excellent.

I just finished this movie and had the “woke” discussion with my wife. We concluded that if this movie portrayed NASA as being discriminatory toward Hernandez simply for being a Mexican then it would truly be woke, as one point of wokeness is to try to convince people that America is a fundamentally racist and bigoted country. This movie reaffirms the fact that no matter who you are or your background, if you put in the hard work you can achieve anything in this country.

Careful they’ll try to bait you into making the site seem like it’s run by racists. If it’s historically accurate it’s inclusion is never WOKE.

Just to be clear, you’re saying that we should have marked this movie as woke because it’s a true life story about an American-born Mexican American. Do I have that right?

+1 to this – def not the first time. Love the site/idea but these missed opportunities to label things correctly are definitely adding up and making this site far less useful.