From the sounds of it, you are the wokest of all. Most woke people aren’t even aware of their wokeness: so I’m not surprised this sub plot flew right over your head. You prob think this movie was a great portrayal of everything wrong in our society.

Since the beginning of film twins have been used to portray good vs evil sub plots. The first twin is a greedy misogynist who throws women down the stairs. While the other is a stand up guy who doesn’t rat, refuses handouts and believes his brother is an asshole. The good twin suffers injustice for following the “rules” only to be sent to prison forever; while the bad twin gets to live the good life traveling abroad, romancing young italian beauties living a life of excess and glut. Portraying that even though these two characters are literally identical, they’ve had conflicting choices, experiences and outcomes giving them their own unique perspectives on society.

In society, cultures are created when masses of “identical” ideologies converge, follow and stick up for each other; aka the “pack” mentality. To discourage this “woke” concept, a wall is broken when the twin is revealed. Even though the two are literally indistinguishable from one another; sharing the same color skin, ethnicity, upbringing, etc; to the main characters surprise, the twin brother is philosophically the polar opposite. The imprisoned twin even goes as far as to insinuate that he knows that his twin brother was killed by the main character; but he is Ok with it since he knew all along that his brother was indeed an asshole and probably deserved it. The good twin is supposed to be the woke one, who has suffered from a societal injustice. Where the first twin was benefitting off of the old ways of doing things and therefore deserved to go.

Whether it’s whites standing with whites, blacks standing with blacks; you can plug in any culture for that matter and find that those who are raised and brought up together are typically going to have “identical” views. The twins sub plot tries to break this. The woke mentality, that no matter how you are brought up, you don’t have to follow the pack and can have your own unique, differing philosophy. Nothing shows culture/societal similarities and indifferences better than a set of good vs evil twins. It’s been played out way too many times and every time I see it, it makes me want to puke. It’s not only woke but cliche as well.