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Being Human
Movie

Being Human

1994 • Unknown

Woke Score
1.4
out of 10

Plot

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Overall Series Review

Being Human is a meditative and episodic journey that follows the same soul through five distinct incarnations across human history, from the Bronze Age to the modern era. The central drama of the film is a universal one: the male character's recurring failure to find and protect his family, and his lifelong quest to overcome his own cowardice and establish a reliable, inner-strong identity. The narrative is focused on themes of family, love, personal obligation, and the repetitive nature of the human condition. It presents an Everyman figure struggling with timeless existential and moral dilemmas. The structure emphasizes the importance of the nuclear family—the wife and children—as the ultimate anchor and source of identity that the male character continually seeks to return to or create. The film is fundamentally spiritual in its premise, tracking a single soul's transcendent morality and search for meaning, rather than focusing on socio-political grievances.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

Character worth is judged by a universal metric of courage and self-mastery, not by race or immutable characteristics. The protagonist is an Everyman whose soul transcends the particularities of his historical incarnation. The story focuses on internal moral conflict rather than external systemic oppression.

Oikophobia2/10

The film utilizes various historical Western-adjacent settings as backdrops for a universal human story. The narrative critiques individual failings like cowardice and foolishness within those settings, but does not frame Western home cultures or ancestors as fundamentally corrupt or morally inferior to external cultures. The goal is to return to the establishment of home and family.

Feminism1/10

The core motivation for the male protagonist is his failure to protect and find his wife and children across lifetimes. The narrative implicitly celebrates motherhood and the family unit as the ultimate goal and source of identity. The story centers on the male's need to develop reliability and inner strength to fulfill a protective, familial role, which is a complementarian view of gender roles.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative's central pursuit is the restoration of the nuclear family—the search for the wife and children—which it frames as the essential human bond. The film entirely focuses on traditional male-female pairing and the integrity of the family unit across the ages, with no centering of alternative sexual ideologies or deconstruction of the nuclear family structure.

Anti-Theism2/10

The film is based on a transcendent, spiritual premise—the journey of a single soul through different incarnations—which acknowledges a higher plane of existence. While not overtly theological, the pursuit of courage and obligation implies a higher moral law and objective truth. Historical settings include characters engaged in religious acts or considering the priesthood, showing faith as an element of life rather than a source of evil.