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🎬 In this FilmSpeak video essay, we discuss Civil War Journalists are FAILING America. We also discuss why A24 Civil War is a masterpiece and what happens when the director doesn't give a f**k about your politics.
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Why is Civil War so controversial? A24's Civil War was always gonna be a contentious film. I mean, it’s quite literally a movie about America’s political divisions exploding into full-blown armed conflict, releasing at a time when America is perhaps more divided than it’s been since the actual Civil War…during an election year, no less. And not just any election, the first presidential election since the one that ended in an attempted coup. But putting ALL of that aside, it just felt like people were rooting for this movie to fail. If, like me, you were unfortunate enough to stumble into the discourse surrounding Civil War movie in the months leading up to its release, you know exactly what I mean. Based on little more than a trailer, a few promotional images, and some choice quotes from writer-director Alex Garland, large swaths of the internet quickly decided this movie was going to be an embarrassing joke.

Hell, I was even guilty of this to an extent, too. While I think Alex Garland is a talented writer, I’ve always been a bit mixed on his work as a director. Ex Machina is undoubtedly a masterpiece, but 2022’s Men left a really bad taste in my mouth. And while I realize I’m very much in the minority on this, Annihilation’s relentlessly bleak tone has just never worked for me. So I was more than willing to buy into the narrative that was forming around this film.

But the thing is, contrary to what the online consensus had decided Alex Garland was trying and failing to do with this film, Civil War isn’t actually trying to depict the most realistic way a second Civil War might play out. Rather, it’s a thought-provoking meditation on the broader mechanics of division – on the way the often arbitrary distinctions we make between ourselves and others allow us to abstract their humanity to such an extreme degree that violence becomes not only inevitable, but easy. And far from sitting on the fence, Garland lays this culture of dehumanization at the feet of the news media, whose dogged pursuit of objectivity, while admirable, is framed as being instrumental in facilitating this process of abstraction.

Rather than the toothless mess of banal political equivocation that people suggested it would be based on little more than a trailer and some promotional material, Civil War is as incisive and biting as any political thriller released this century. This is why Civil War is not just the best Alex Garland movie, but Civil War is one of the best A24 movies.

Griffin (@griffschiller) gives you his Civil War movie review and explains why Civil War is perfect, why Civil War is a Misunderstood Masterpiece, why Civil War is the most important film of the year, the hidden brilliance of Civil War A24 in this A24 Civil War video essay. Enjoy this Civil War Explained and Civil War ending explained video!

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🎞 About Civil War 🎞

In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists races against time to reach Washington, D.C., before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Civil War is written and directed by Alex Garland and stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, and Jesse Plemons.
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