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Grand Jeté
Movie

Grand Jeté

2022 • Drama

Woke Score
8
out of 10

Plot

In order to concentrate on her career, a ballet teacher lives estranged from her young son, who grew up with her mother. When she meets him again after years, an affection develops that goes far beyond maternal love.

Overall Series Review

The film centers on Nadja, a former ballerina who sacrificed motherhood for her career, and her reconnection with her adult son, Mario. This reunion quickly evolves into an incestuous sexual relationship. The narrative adopts a dispassionate, observational style, refusing to condemn or punish the characters for their actions. The entire focus is on the psychological and physical intensity of their unconventional desires, portraying their transgression as a strange, yet understandable, outcome of their psychological damage and mutual body obsession. The film directly challenges fundamental taboos and traditional social structures, particularly the family unit and objective morality, without relying on the tropes of intersectional identity politics or broad anti-Western sentiment.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The narrative does not engage with race, intersectionality, or identity politics. Characters are defined purely by personal trauma, psychological states, and their pursuit of physical excellence in ballet or bodybuilding. There is no vilification of 'whiteness' or forced diversity; the focus is on a specific family's profound psychological dysfunction.

Oikophobia2/10

The film does not contain explicit hostility toward Western civilization, one's home country, or ancestors in the political-ideological sense. The setting is modern and Western, but the attack is concentrated on the fundamental institution of the nuclear family. The deconstruction is specific to the mother-son bond, rather than a broad indictment of culture or heritage.

Feminism8/10

The protagonist, Nadja, is a career-obsessed woman who abandoned her son to achieve professional fulfillment as a ballerina. Motherhood is explicitly framed as an obstacle to her career, aligning with anti-natal messaging that prioritizes individual professional ambition over family. The narrative makes the woman the active 'perpetrator' of a sexual transgression, which, while subverting traditional gender roles, also fits the model of an individualistic, anti-traditional female lead.

LGBTQ+10/10

The core of the plot is an intense investigation into, and normalization of, a radically unconventional sexual relationship that completely deconstructs the nuclear family and traditional familial boundaries. The film makes a forbidden desire its entire focus and treats it without judgment, directly challenging the normative structure of sexuality and the family unit. The director notes that the story embraces a 'flexible' gender concept and presents the mother-son incest without punishment.

Anti-Theism10/10

The film refuses to acknowledge objective truth or moral law regarding a foundational social taboo. The relationship is depicted without moral judgment; the characters are neither punished nor condemned for their transgression, a key indicator of moral relativism. The film is characterized by reviewers as intentionally ignoring or dancing past the 'taboos of a society obsessed with morality' and presenting their actions as a logically dysfunctional path to 'authentic human connection,' embodying subjective morality over a higher moral law.