They say the devil is in the details, and that is certainly true for the dystopia dazzle that is Ava DuVernay and Roberto Patino’s DMZ. Having just had its world premiere at SXSW today and set to d…
-led adaptation of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s comic of the same name can be best summarized in the massive graffiti splayed across a dilapidated Manhattan building – “We’re Still Here.”director DuVernay, it is all still here, even more so in a further broken America.
Abandoned and walled in as the Second American Civil War roars, bombs drop and competing outside institutional forces maneuver, the resulting vacuum of a demilitarized zone that this POC dominated Manhattan crumbles into a terror that controls even more than it kills. As Dawson’s haunted medic Alma Ortega awakes from a bad dream and nearly a decade after everything fell apart, in the opening moments of the DuVernay directed opening episode crashes into an even more horrific reality It is the truth of a nation gnawed apart by the very divisions that have long saddled us and have been let even further loose from the leash of political proprietary in recent years in real-life.
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