The journalists pursue the story because it is happening. And it isn’t non-partisan because it is clear that the administration — we are told that the president is in his third term, and we see a couple of Trump verbal mannerisms — is bad. We are told that journalists are killed by administration forces, and so these journalists are following the rebel troops with the aim of being there when they take the White House. But the makers don’t want to make it about the causes of the division and so they don’t explore the matter. This is about being caught up in the middle of a horrific situation.
I had doubts about all of this, but, with my daughter’s help, I came to put them aside. The film snd the individuals stay with me.
The film Civil War isn’t really a look at what could happen in this country. Yes, that kind of warfare is the setting, but the movie is not an examination of such issues. The film is about journalists who cover such events and what they endure and what motivates them. They push on, determined to get to a likely dramatic encounter of the rebels and the apparent autocratic regime in the White House.
It is about a range of human emotions set against horrific circumstances and danger. But it is not remotely a look at what this country is experiencing today. The set-up is too vague. It is a catchy and convenient framework for a telling another story.
Thanks, Dan. That's been one of the common criticisms of the movie - that it "loses itself in a non-partisan fog," as The New Yorker critic put it - and doesn't examine or even really explain the issues that cause the journalists to pursue the story. No, the country isn't in a civil war today, at least not a shooting one. But it doesn't seem too big a jump for trump to order up an armed response if he goes to prison or loses the election.
In the past 24 days I've been in 12 states, coming home carrying the reality that there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. People from Pennsylvania all the way back to eastern Oregon are filled with propaganda & rage & think that tRUMP is going to help them. They are lemmings blindly following a cruel, unreasonable & oppressive autocrat's absolute power over them. They have barns painted with his name & trucks with flags & loud mufflers doing something they call "rollin' coal" which is anti-environmental act of violence to the air & to anyone who happens to be caught in the cloud, they erect anti-abortion billboards & no trespassing signs depicting six shooters. There have always been good ole boys, but now their DUKES OF HAZARD mentality has a dangerous edge that is terrifying. Civil War is an oxymoron, what we have here is a lack of communication. Why see the film when all you need to do is take a ride in any direction?
Beer. It’s not noon yet. Gee. Maybe later.
About the issues here and worldwide. It boggles my little brain. So many issues to feel anxiety over. Welp it’s time now to fold some laundry.
Folding laundry. I can get behind that.
The journalists pursue the story because it is happening. And it isn’t non-partisan because it is clear that the administration — we are told that the president is in his third term, and we see a couple of Trump verbal mannerisms — is bad. We are told that journalists are killed by administration forces, and so these journalists are following the rebel troops with the aim of being there when they take the White House. But the makers don’t want to make it about the causes of the division and so they don’t explore the matter. This is about being caught up in the middle of a horrific situation.
I had doubts about all of this, but, with my daughter’s help, I came to put them aside. The film snd the individuals stay with me.
The film Civil War isn’t really a look at what could happen in this country. Yes, that kind of warfare is the setting, but the movie is not an examination of such issues. The film is about journalists who cover such events and what they endure and what motivates them. They push on, determined to get to a likely dramatic encounter of the rebels and the apparent autocratic regime in the White House.
It is about a range of human emotions set against horrific circumstances and danger. But it is not remotely a look at what this country is experiencing today. The set-up is too vague. It is a catchy and convenient framework for a telling another story.
Thanks, Dan. That's been one of the common criticisms of the movie - that it "loses itself in a non-partisan fog," as The New Yorker critic put it - and doesn't examine or even really explain the issues that cause the journalists to pursue the story. No, the country isn't in a civil war today, at least not a shooting one. But it doesn't seem too big a jump for trump to order up an armed response if he goes to prison or loses the election.
In the past 24 days I've been in 12 states, coming home carrying the reality that there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. People from Pennsylvania all the way back to eastern Oregon are filled with propaganda & rage & think that tRUMP is going to help them. They are lemmings blindly following a cruel, unreasonable & oppressive autocrat's absolute power over them. They have barns painted with his name & trucks with flags & loud mufflers doing something they call "rollin' coal" which is anti-environmental act of violence to the air & to anyone who happens to be caught in the cloud, they erect anti-abortion billboards & no trespassing signs depicting six shooters. There have always been good ole boys, but now their DUKES OF HAZARD mentality has a dangerous edge that is terrifying. Civil War is an oxymoron, what we have here is a lack of communication. Why see the film when all you need to do is take a ride in any direction?