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Father
Movie

Father

2020 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Overall Series Review

The film follows Nikola, a poor, working-class father in a Serbian village, whose children are unjustly removed by social services due to his impoverished living conditions. The narrative charts his arduous, 300-kilometer walk to Belgrade to appeal the decision and confront the bureaucracy that has shattered his family. The focus is a universal one: a father's love and determination against an indifferent and corrupt state system. The conflict is purely one of class and justice, showing a man of integrity fighting for his fundamental rights. The movie is a grounded, humanist drama that champions the family unit and highlights the sacrifices a parent will make for his children. It critiques systemic failures but ultimately validates traditional roles and the bond of kinship. The journey itself is an ode to perseverance and a quiet dignity that transcends material wealth.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The main conflict is based on class and systemic injustice, with a poor white father as the sympathetic protagonist. The narrative champions the content of his character and his merit as a father, not immutable characteristics. Race-based intersectional conflict is completely absent.

Oikophobia2/10

The film critiques the corruption and dysfunction of specific post-communist state institutions (social services), not the fundamental values of the culture, nation, or Western civilization itself. The protagonist's journey is a fight *for* his home and family, affirming his connection to his land and community.

Feminism2/10

The core of the story is the struggle of a father to fulfill his protective and provider role, affirming a traditional masculine purpose. The narrative champions the importance of the family unit. Men and women are presented as distinct individuals facing different challenges, with no emasculation of the male lead or anti-natalist messaging.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative is centered entirely on a father, mother, and their children, validating the traditional nuclear family structure as the normative and desired ideal. There is no introduction, centering, or lecturing on alternative sexual identities or gender theory.

Anti-Theism1/10

The conflict is secular and bureaucratic, focusing on socio-economic and institutional issues. Religion is not a narrative focus, and there is no vilification of faith or traditional religious belief. The film operates within a framework of objective moral truth: the state is wrong, and the father is right.