Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: medium
Audience Score
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The Verdict
An explicit, philosophical art-house drama about a woman recounting her sexual history. Its provocations are about desire, morality, and human self-loathing — not progressive identity messaging. Essentially clean across all WokeMeter axes, however controversial its content may be on other grounds.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0Original characters in an original Lars von Trier work; nothing established to swap.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
10A female protagonist drives the narrative but the film is not a girlboss fantasy nor does it mock men as a message.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
10The film is overwhelmingly heterosexual in its sexual content with no central LGBTQ+ storyline.
DEI Casting
5Casting reflects an ordinary European setting with no quota-driven diversity.
Preachiness
20Philosophical and digressive but it interrogates desire and morality rather than delivering progressive sermons.
- Seligman's tangents on fly fishing and Fibonacci numbers as metaphors for Joe's life
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
10Explores sexuality and self-loathing without framing masculinity or the West as villainous.
Source Betrayal
0Original screenplay with no source material.
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Cast & Crew
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Joe
Stellan Skarsgård
Seligman
Stacy Martin
Young Joe
Shia LaBeouf
Jerôme
Christian Slater
Joe's Father
Uma Thurman
Mrs. H
Sophie Kennedy Clark
B
Connie Nielsen
Joe's Mother
Ananya Berg
Joe - 10 Years
Jens Albinus
S
Peter Aalbæk Jensen (Executive Producer) · Lars von Trier (Writer) · Marie Gade Denessen (Executive Producer)
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