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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Following the highly anticipated release of Alex Garland's latest film Civil War, key elements of the fictitious modern American Civil War are revealed. Garland's ambitious film was produced by popular independent production company A24 in what can be considered its first action blockbuster effort.
The reasoning behind the seemingly bizarre alliance of Texas and California in the film is an indication that the war isn't over Democrat and Republican politics but more about Offerman's corrupt three-term Presidency. The United States federal government has disavowed its allegiance to the United States Constitution and is now held under the budding dictatorship of Offerman's tyrannical President.
Nearly the entire East Coast except Florida remained a part of the United States based on the official Civil War map. The westernmost states that have not seceded are Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, which adds an interesting dimension of conflict for the Western forces, who fight these loyalist states on either side. The southernmost state on the East Coast that has not succeeded in Civil War is South Carolina.
The main characters in Civil War, played by Dunst, Moura, and Spaeny, are photojournalists who are trying to capture the events as objectively as possible. Journalists were getting killed in Washington D.C., which implies that naturally they view the President as the enemy and feel more comfortable with the Western Forces.
While some viewers may feel like Garland missed an opportunity with Civil War to present a realistic near-future scenario to add to its stark and frightening imagery, the film was more centered on the effects of the war on its characters than the actual circumstances of its unsettling premise.
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