Civil War Movie Review: Why So Serious?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Alex Garland creates an intense odyssey through an American landscape fractured by a civil war. But in failing to address any real life issues our country is facing... it feels more like an alternate universe.
Was this review too harsh?
@apocalypsetedium
You missed the point of the whole movie. If you got a punk kid who wants to drink and smoke you make him drink and smoke till they turn green and vomit and crap their pants. Well, you got what you wanted kid, did you enjoy it? That is what this movie was. People say they want a civil war, but they know not what they say. War is not entertainment. The news is not supposed to be entertainment but some people think it is so they tune in to the one that is most fun... The government is not supposed to be a spectator sport yet here they are rooting for their team. When the game is really over we won't shake hands and play again next week. Everyone will be dead. That is civil war. That is what this movie was. No plot, no addressing issues... just war, fear, and death. That is what MAGA wants. Well take a look. Is this what you really want?
Thank you for the comment! I agree this movie does a good job showing horrific violence. I would argue that movies don't send people to war. Social circumstances do, like resource scarcity. Like not having food or shelter. When people don't see the system as serving them, they will seek to overthrow it. As for this film serving as a warning... There was a great anti-war film made in 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front. Won two academy awards and was seen as such a great lesson on the horrors of war, it was recommended that the League of Nations show it to all countries of the world, so that we may never have war again. Less than ten years later, the world was in the throes of World War 2. In large part because the German govt cut unemployment, sending thousands into the arms of the fashists. We can avoid making the same mistake by showing the system serving the people.
I don’t think the MAGAs want war, fear, and death. I feel like they want peace, respect for Christian values (we’re a Christian-dominant culture after all), incentives for hard work, and decreased incentives for those who wreak havoc on our judicial system and abuse social welfare programs.
this review is bull sh----t ..
Thanks for the comment! What did you not agree with?
You do realize that the war photographers are reluctant propagandists for the “Western Forces”, right. This isn’t the protagonists picking a side so much as it is their ticket towards getting the “money shot” of the President’s death.
Like in the real world, I think that Alex Garland was trying to say that, whatever side you pick, it is going to use violence in order to make a point. That’s why there are multiple militias in the movie. Multiple sides that are trying to prove their side’s superiority via violent means.
Thanks for the comment! In the real world, many war journalists ARE reluctant propagandists. Sometimes they're inadvertent propagandists. Trying to "get the money shot," makes them seem less like actual journalists and more like exploitative paparazzi.
Garland's point is that, in war, all sides "use violence?" Well, that's not much of a point. It's already understood. If he's making a film with media members as the main characters, why not explore how media shapes the country's perception of itself? That way he can still have his cake of not naming Democrats or Republicans, and still give us something challenging to explore.
Maybe the marketing could have been better...
Good point! I didn't see much of it until after the fact.