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Alex Garland's Civil War
2 hours of nothing but empty air and gibberish
Only good part was Jesse Plemons as the racist militiaman, but that ends pretty quick and then it's back to "Woah, wouldn't this be kind of crazy? Journalism is important"
It's a film about an inherently political topic that's almost entirely free of politics.
It doesn't even portray war reporters all that positively, or make the case that what they're doing is important. The one guy is cheering and saying something like "I live for this!" as he's watching bombing going on in the distance -- depraved shit, especially if you don't even have a stake in the fighting. And at the start of the film the main lady says "my parents are in [flyover state] pretending none of this is happening." Then what the hell is so important about The News?
All this is stuff that I liked about it. It would have been even better if the main characters were not americans, but traveling there to witness the mess.
I appreciate depicting war inside the US the same way the US depicts war happening outside it: two or three sides fighting, people get caught up in the fighting, no clear ideological sides, just people shooting at each other from shacks and balconies, and committing war crimes out of sheer anger at the other side but we don't find out what either side is.
The movie is not great but if it had shown the motivations or bases of the sides in the conflict, shown soldiers in clear uniforms, shown one side being depraved criminals and the other as principled soldiers, then it would have been even more shit. I appreciate the mess. If/when the americans start having a civil war it would probably be between two bullshit factions and the outside world would probably be justifiably
Also, A Taxi Driver(2017) already exists.
This review/analysis does a good job explaining what's wrong with it.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I watched at 3x speed it on a wechat video channel that uploads whole movies
Two Suicide needle drops. Low effort trash.