Box Office
Underperformed · 1.3xBudget$2.5M
Worldwide Gross$3.2M
The History of Sound earns its 9/10 woke score by building the entire plot and marketing around a gay romance between two music students, treating the folk-song journey as mere scenery. Skip it if you want stories free of identity-driven messaging.
The History of Sound centers its entire premise and emotional arc on the clandestine gay romance between music students Lionel Worthing (Paul Mescal) and David White (Josh O'Connor).
They meet in 1917 at the New England Conservatory, immediately bond over folk music before having sex, then reunite post-WWI for a song-collecting trip through rural Maine where their relationship deepens as the narrative focus. The provided poster imagery of the two men in an intimate forehead-touching embrace directly foregrounds this male couple dynamic as the selling point, with the folk-music journey serving primarily as backdrop for their love story rather than an independent plot driver.
We've run a full content analysis on The History of Sound and scored it 9/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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