re: #186 No Malarkey!

Civil War has sparked a lot of discussion about what exactly it’s about. The Director Alexander Garland deliberately kept contemporary US politics out of it. Though it’s easy for me to see a lot of Trump in Offerman’s hated President in his third term, I imagine that consumers of rightwing media would see Joe Biden, who they are told is a totalitarian dictator. The terrifying death squad leader played by Jesse Plemons would be a Trump supporter in our reality, but the movie doesn’t tell us which faction, if any, he supports in the war, or if his death squad is just opportunistically using the chaos to engage in some local ethnic cleansing. The movie is more about how civil society collapses in war generally than it is about American politics and that is true, but it is also and maybe primarily about the journey of young photojournalist Jessie. Spoilers in box!

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Sounds as wishy washy as it had to be in order to actually get filmed. They would have probably been better off dressing it in a SF or fantasy garb and making it more explicitly about our current situation - if with more “plausible deniability” - than this, ala Captain Pike on Kiley 279?

That or do rip off Capa and Taro in Spain which could easily be used to tell a very similar story line with real political elements as well.

But no, that’s too difficult these days. Can’t show the movie in too many places and risk too many whines here.