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Civil WarA solid movie in the vein of Apocalypse Now, where a group of journalists travel across the wartorn US to interview its president on what seems to be the eve of his defeat. It's received some criticism for being vague about the reasons for a second US civil war, but that's pretty well inferred by a conversation halfway through. Also the why would just get in the way, since it's clearly designed as an exercise in shock and awe based around the premise of "What if it happened here (again)?". It probably fell a bit short on that for me, since the US isn't my "here", but it's visceral enough to get the point across.Plotting is more conventional than I expected, since it follows the Hollywood patterns of [ISPOILER]older people sacrificing themselves to save the young, and most villains getting their comeuppance[/ISPOILER]. Perhaps it should have played against those tropes and gone for total soul-crushing bleakness, but I'm not sure if that would have made it markedly better. Instead it peppers its gut-punches through its imagery and dialogue to great effect, which seems fitting for a story that follows the press.Perhaps more disturbing to me was that Kirsten Dunst is now old enough to be the grizzled veteran war photographer passing the torch to the new generation. I feel like I blinked and missed when she stopped being the new generation.
Civil War
A solid movie in the vein of Apocalypse Now, where a group of journalists travel across the wartorn US to interview its president on what seems to be the eve of his defeat. It's received some criticism for being vague about the reasons for a second US civil war, but that's pretty well inferred by a conversation halfway through. Also the why would just get in the way, since it's clearly designed as an exercise in shock and awe based around the premise of "What if it happened here (again)?". It probably fell a bit short on that for me, since the US isn't my "here", but it's visceral enough to get the point across.
Plotting is more conventional than I expected, since it follows the Hollywood patterns of [ISPOILER]older people sacrificing themselves to save the young, and most villains getting their comeuppance[/ISPOILER]. Perhaps it should have played against those tropes and gone for total soul-crushing bleakness, but I'm not sure if that would have made it markedly better. Instead it peppers its gut-punches through its imagery and dialogue to great effect, which seems fitting for a story that follows the press.
Perhaps more disturbing to me was that Kirsten Dunst is now old enough to be the grizzled veteran war photographer passing the torch to the new generation. I feel like I blinked and missed when she stopped being the new generation.
