Most people look to Hollywood as a source of entertainment. They are reluctant to attribute to movie plots anything beyond the story lines. Those who find agendas inside films are often dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
However, some film narratives do have liberal agendas. It is not hard to affirm. The film’s reviewers, commentators and publications all admit it. It is all out in the open. One such film is the latest blockbuster to hit the theaters—“Wicked.”
Not Just Entertainment
“Wicked” is not just entertainment—it’s propaganda. The left is raving over the film because it fits its program. Everyone is talking about its woke qualities. The liberal media have pulled out all the stops in its promotion. Retailers are on board by selling “Wicked” toys, jewelry, T-shirts and even tree ornaments, targeting minors just in time for Christmas.
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The movie has a predictable collection of stale leftist themes. Inside its exhausting three-hour plot, one finds class struggle, feminism, racism, animal rights, wokeness, victimhood and even resisting “fascism” (read President-elect Trump). Many have praised its high LGBTQ+ visibility, in which many cast members identify as queer. Nothing seems to be left out. “Wicked” is a high-budget musical propaganda piece for the left.
It is also wicked.
What Wicked Is All About
A word of explanation is in order. The movie is a prequel to the famous 1939 musical fantasy film “The Wizard of Oz.” “Wicked” refers to the Wicked Witch of the West, the evil protagonist who meets her end with the triumph of good.
For all its shortcomings, “The Wizard of Oz” is framed as a good versus evil story, where the good party ultimately prevails. The sides are clearly defined.
However, “Wicked” has none of this black-and-white moralizing. It tells the Wicked Witch’s side of the story before her fall. It chronicles her struggle against an oppressive system. In other words, the Wicked Witch was not really a wicked person but rather a victim.
Thus, there are four reasons why “Wicked” is wicked.
No Moral Sense of Right and Wrong
The film’s ambiguity is the first reason it is wicked. It presents a scenario that seeks to rob people of their moral sense of right and wrong.
Oz’s eventual “wicked” witch, Elphaba, and her good counterpart, Glinda, are portrayed as roommates at a school where they are being groomed to become witches. Witchcraft, magic and superstition are indifferent subjects without any evil connotations. Thus, the film teaches, normalizes and validates what was once considered evil.
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Indeed, there is no evil, error or sin in this dystopic world. Everything’s in between. Reviewer Jessica Gerhardt of National Catholic Reporter celebrates that the film turns truth into a gray area where “people cannot be reduced to merely ‘good’ or ‘wicked’—and this is the movie’s central premise.”
Lydia Polgreen of The New York Times notes that the film does not let “either character stand in completely for good or bad, strong or weak.”
In the world of “Wicked,” notions of good and evil are entangled. All those who do what is considered evil are merely victims with no responsibility for their acts.
This immoral perspective is wicked. It sends the wrong message to society.
Hardcoded Class Struggle
A second reason the film is wicked is its class struggle narrative. After declaring there is no absolute good or evil, the movie takes this error one step further by proclaiming that those considered wicked are heroes and those traditionally representing good are villains.
The oppressor/oppressed narrative is hardcoded into the script on every page. Gerhardt writes that the film invites viewers to “consider the ways that wealthy and powerful people manipulate the masses and uphold corrupt systems that rely on the exploitation or exclusion of some to benefit others.”
This false narrative reads like a Socialist Workers Party manifesto. It clashes with the Western Christian notion that the social classes are meant to harmonize around moral and spiritual values that transcend this gloomy, godless and materialistic perspective.
Wicked is wicked because it proposes this distorted vision of reality that has brought untold suffering upon the world.
“Wicked” Is Woke
At a time when major corporations and universities are discarding their woke DEI and ESG programs, Hollywood is pushing this agenda forward. After an election that analysts say sent a “woke is broke” message to losing liberal candidates, “Wicked” wants to fix it.
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Indeed, at every turn in its plot, there are woke themes to greet the viewer. It is so woke that The New York Times columnist Tressia McMillan Cottom says, “The only way to un-woke this movie is to have made something other than ‘Wicked.’”
Thus, “Wicked” is wicked for imposing this agenda upon a population that has increasingly rejected it in daily life, the workplace and at the ballot box. It is time to retire this narrative.
Make It Palatable for the Masses
The final reason “Wicked” is wicked is its dishonest use of cinema to promote a revolution. It is beyond entertainment.
Cottom puts everything together—ambiguity, class struggle and wokeness. She says the film “champions the marginalized, moralizes about our politics about difference, and makes it palatable for the masses.”
“Wicked” is all about making its distorted message “palatable for the masses.”
The extravaganza mobilizes all of Hollywood’s assets to spread a revolution against Western values. It claims the right to do this through a musical film masquerading as entertainment. The blockbuster deconstructs Western values and proposes its own distorted vision of the world that it projects without permission or consent.
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The PG-rated film is all the rage of teenage girls who can identify with the movie’s main characters. It is considered appropriate for those eight and up, all of which will pick up the film’s messages. This exposure will come together with messages from other movies and social media. Afterward, people will wonder what went wrong when these ideas take hold in them and play out in America’s streets and campuses.
It is wicked to use cinema for such means and so dishonestly.
It is time to call things as they are. “Wicked” is wicked.
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