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Stoner
Movie

Stoner

1974 • Unknown

Woke Score
3
out of 10

Plot

An Australian cop heads to Hong Kong to head off the supply of a new designer drug which raises the sexual appetite of anyone who takes it.

Overall Series Review

The film is a 1974 Hong Kong action movie featuring an Australian cop named Stoner (George Lazenby) who hunts down the creators of a new designer drug, "The Happy Pill," after his sister overdoses. The drug is an aphrodisiac and hallucinogen that fuels a hedonistic, psycho-sexual cult environment. The protagonist teams up with a highly competent Chinese secret agent, Angela Mao, who proves to be the superior martial artist. The plot focuses on international crime fighting, featuring a mix of spy thriller, kung fu, and 1970s exploitation cinema elements like orgies, nudity, and drug use. The movie operates entirely within the moral framework of its era, with a clear line between the law enforcement heroes and the criminal villains, lacking any detectable contemporary social or political lecturing.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The narrative focuses on a white Australian cop and a Chinese secret agent working together to stop a drug ring, judging characters by their merit as law enforcement or criminals. The lead characters of different races are competent heroes and equals in the fight, which aligns with universal meritocracy.

Oikophobia1/10

The central conflict involves a tough Australian cop protecting society by dismantling a drug ring and a cult that promotes depravity and chaos. The narrative functions as an attack on 'free-love hippy culture' and moral decadence, framing the hero as a defender of civil order rather than an agent of civilizational self-hatred.

Feminism4/10

The female lead is a highly competent 'supercop' and superior martial artist who is instrumental in the plot, embodying a 'Girl Boss' trope of the era. However, the male lead remains a capable, tough action hero, and the film's sexual themes are focused on exploitation and drug-induced hedonism rather than a modern anti-natalist or male-emasculating message.

LGBTQ+4/10

The core plot is driven by a drug that raises the sexual appetite and leads to explicit scenes of heterosexual promiscuity, orgies, and sexual exploitation. While sexuality is intensely centered, the focus is on sensationalizing hedonism and the breakdown of moral order, not on centering alternative sexual identities or lecturing on modern gender ideology.

Anti-Theism2/10

The villain's drug operation is housed in a 'shrine' and run by a 'sadistic cult leader,' implying a critique of false, corrupt, and morally void spirituality. The narrative pits the moral imperative of law enforcement against nihilistic depravity, promoting a form of objective moral law (the law against drugs) rather than attacking established traditional religion.