What Happens At The End of Not Okay?

Not Okay ends with Danni attending one of Rowan’s spoken word performances, intending to apologize. But when Rowan’s poem is an indictment of all of Danni’s actions, of her theft of Rowan’s trauma and words, Danni only applauds her and gets up to leave.

Not Okay is an on-the-nose indictment of influencer culture and privilege that many viewers probably can’t help but wonder about.

Not Okay may not be based on a true story, but the film blatantly satirizes the ways we as a society platform inauthentic voices even as we downplay the real-lived traumas of marginalized people.

On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating generally favourable reviews.