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April 21st, 2024

Civil War

Movies

People really want there to be some sort of ideological angle they can tease out of it, and some reviewers get irritated that it "won't take sides" or something like that. It would have been less effective if it had given into that impulse. Those same people would probably tell me it ended up being less effective by going about things the way it does. 

Which, well, I went to see the movie Alex Garland wanted to show me, I think I saw that movie, and I think it did what he wanted. He  did not seem to want to tee up some sort of conversation about how this is where we'll all be next July if Trump gets reelected. 

I get that there are people who need someone to go make that movie, and maybe someone will. Sounds like a tedious ghost story for anxious liberals. 

Were it to come to pass in a manner akin to what Garland depicts, ideology would be a luxury. Garland does a pretty good job of making that point.