A bold move to make a film like Civil War, a near-future thriller, at a time when war atrocities are happening worldwide. Writer-director Alex Garland's unflinching ability to maintain focus is evident in this volatile narrative challenge.
There is an inherent audacity in making a film like Civil War , even before writer-director Alex Garland starts to lay out the finer points of his near-future thriller . At a time when the atrocities of war are unfolding in multiple places around the world, and our own country feels perched on the kind of knife’s edge where just about anything could happen, it’s a bold move to make such a film, particularly outside of the more exploitation-heavy genre flights of things like The Purge.
Treating a story like this seriously, even from a distance, feels a bit like juggling multiple powder kegs at once. But Garland has never been one to shy away from a narrative challenge, whether he’s examining one woman’s traumatic envelopment by evil men (Men) or an honest and seductive encounter with an artificial intelligence (Ex Machina). With Civil War, he’s set up another tall order for himself, one built on volatile ingredients in a volatile time, and the first thing you notice about the film is his unflinching ability to maintain focu
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