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The Deep End

movie
March 13, 2006
Wokeometer Rating
3Based
Audience Woke Score
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Scale: 0 = not woke, 10 = maximally woke

TL;DR Verdict

The Deep End stays laser-focused on one girl's private psychological turmoil in a surreal pool setting, with no identity politics or social messaging. At 3/10 woke, it's clean, neutral storytelling.

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Detailed Analysis

The 2006 French short film Le grand bassin (The Deep End), directed by Fabianny Deschamps, centers on 11-year-old Lucille living with her parents as caretakers of a surreal, flying-saucer-like public pool.

Her psychological anguish stems from refusing to enter the deep end due to her own confused and ambiguous desires toward the swimming instructor Damien. This premise draws on classic psychological drama tropes of childhood fears, emerging awareness, and inner conflict rather than any activist framing. The central plot revolves around a child's psychological confusion and ambiguous desires in a surreal setting, presented as personal anguish without social justice messaging or identity politics.

There is no evidence of race or gender-swapped established characters, DEI casting mandates, creator statements on activism, or critiques of traditional norms and patriarchy. As an obscure short film with minimal reception signals, it functions as an organic artistic exploration of childhood psychology rather than message-driven content, keeping progressive ideological elements absent and preserving focus on individual inner experience.

Key Factors

  • Central plot revolves around a child's psychological confusion and ambiguous desires in a surreal setting, presented as personal anguish without social justice messaging or identity politics
  • No evidence of race/gender-swapped established characters, DEI casting mandates, creator statements on activism, or critiques of traditional norms/patriarchy
  • Obscure short film with minimal reception signals; organic artistic exploration of childhood psychology, not message-driven content

Methodology: Each score synthesizes audience discourse, critic and aggregator reception, and press coverage — weighed against the work itself, not any single source.

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Is The Deep End Woke?

We've run a full content analysis on The Deep End and scored it 3/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.

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What kind of woke content is in The Deep End?

Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into The Deep End's overall score.

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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content. Learn more about our methodology →

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3Based

Virginie Reyes

Lucille

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3Based

Nathalie Bernard

la mère

Benjamin Baroche
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Benjamin Baroche

Damien

Vincent Schmitt
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Vincent Schmitt

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Jacques Chraszez

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