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It Happened Again Last Night
Movie

It Happened Again Last Night

2017 • Unknown

Woke Score
4
out of 10

Plot

Paige must choose between love and fear before she has no choices left to make.

Overall Series Review

The short film centers on Paige, a woman trapped in an abusive relationship with a man, Stephen, while secretly being in love with her female best friend, Kris. The plot follows Paige’s emotional struggle to escape fear and an abusive heterosexual pairing to embrace her true self and love with Kris. The male character is solely defined by his role as an abuser. The director positioned the film as part of the 'love wins' movement, which prioritizes sexual identity and alternative relationship structures as the key to the protagonist's freedom and happiness. The core conflict is not about race, systemic oppression, or Western culture, but is an intensely personal and political statement on sexual orientation and domestic violence. The film was nominated for Best Political Statement Movie.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The narrative does not focus on race, intersectional hierarchies, or systemic oppression to explain the characters’ circumstances. Character conflict is purely personal and relational, not based on privilege or immutable characteristics.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot is a confined, domestic drama about an abusive relationship and a struggle for personal freedom. The movie contains no elements of civilizational self-hatred, demonization of ancestors, or hostility toward Western heritage.

Feminism7/10

The single central male character, Stephen, is an abusive figure, portraying masculinity in an exclusively toxic light. The protagonist’s path to self-fulfillment requires her to reject the traditional male-female pairing in favor of a career and an alternative relationship structure.

LGBTQ+9/10

Alternative sexual identity forms the entire premise of the protagonist's central conflict and resolution. The film frames her decision to embrace her lesbian relationship and leave the male abuser as the ultimate choice between fear and love. The director explicitly linked the work to the 'love wins' movement and sexual neutrality, centering sexual identity as the narrative's political goal.

Anti-Theism1/10

The story focuses on psychological and relational drama (abuse, sexual identity). The narrative contains no discussion of or hostility toward religion, specifically Christianity, and does not engage with themes of objective truth or moral relativism.