Civil War (A24 - Alex Garland, Spring 2024) • Page 6

This is the biggest part for me. The tech connection between Austin & Silicon Valley at the middle of that.

 

Also from everything I’ve gathered, outside of the cities, pretty conservative! As most states are!

 

Yea it’s really not that big of a stretch for California and Texas to align

 

you're not wrong, both states have big progressive cities and rich conservatives, but like, just looking at the 2020 presidential election CA went to Biden and TX went to the other guy

 

For sure. But, like, just 20 years ago California was electing republicans statewide still and before that spent most of the prior century as a republican stronghold (Nixon & Reagan both being former governors). I think I’m with you in that I’m going to have a preoccupation while watching the movie of “how tf did this happen” and the movie seemingly will not be interested in answering that question. But if someone wanted to make a dystopian work of fiction on the basis that somehow California and Texas got more or less on the same political page in the near-ish future, I don’t think it would be inconceivable. Plus, things like climate change are very likely to cause some political realignment in the coming years and there’s a ton of ways that can shake out (some good, some horrifying).

 

quote is dumb but also most reviews seem to indicate the movie is really not focused on politics, at least not to that extent. could be wrong, though, i kind of don’t trust early reviews these days so who knows. still want to see it but i’m keeping my expectations in neutral.

 

They both want unhoused people to be burned alive

 

Artists with bad/stupid politics sometimes still make good art in spite of it so the quote doesn't worry me that much

 

I grew up in the 90's so it's not like it'll be the first time I've enjoyed a movie with underlying dumb politics

 

The quote worries me because I trust bad politics impacting a movie like this more than I trust early reviews

 

Why even make this movie if you dont have anything fun to say about american politics. You can make a war is bad movie about any war.

 

This is what I was worried about with the movie. That it’s just a broad, coastal idea of people from the Midwest or south. Same reason I didn’t like “The Hunt.”

 

Haven’t seen Men or this but that would certainly bum me out

 

idk I watched the Hunt on TV and thought it was pretty entertaining tbh. It honestly was more like the Midwest, Southern idea of what liberals from the coasts are like haha. The “victims” all seemed more real/less caricature than the antagonists

 

That’s fair. I guess I just felt it was lazy satire no matter angle it was taking. And Mike Ryan responded that at least that had a sense of humor so I don’t know, this might not be my thing.

 

i guess if he goes to tv or books again I'm not really bummed but weird thing to say

 

I don't know how this movie could avoid politics if Offerman's presidential character causes the states to split over a contested election. And even as a Garland fan, if that's the case, I truly cannot think of a premise I'm less interested in seeing played out on screen. I'm trying to see less of this shit lol

 

As it turns out, this is terrible

 

oof, not a good look. even if it's nothing more than pulling archival footage (idk the context for thanking Lewis), that association doesn't bode well

 

Didn't even know about this guy. Bro is viet. Dude your parents were refugees the fuck you doing a conservative

 

Not all, but many members of the Vietnamese American community took a hard right turn since 2016. There were South Vietnam flags flown on the capitol during Jan 6th. I read an article awhile ago about how there is a popular Vietnamese language equivalent of Infowars that tons of Viet parents watch. They have basically become Asian Cubans.

 

That explains why I got some conservative family members. Alt right pipeline too stronk