“Someone’s trying to kill us. We are trying to kill them.”
Visceral, propulsive, and upsetting. A film about the horrors of war and the breakdown of communication.
“Civil War” is certainly provocative, but not in the way you might expect. Garland doesn’t necessarily parse his film’s political mythology, much less the real contemporary landscape of American politics. He extricates the audience from the baggage of reality; it’s surprisingly alleviating, if not perhaps a little cowardly.
I am concerned that people…
