Civil War (A24 - Alex Garland, Spring 2024) • Page 20

No one is saying you need to ruminate on the implications of ordering dessert at dinner. The point is about the movie's ideology that journalists are just there to "tell it like it is" when everything about journalism is political.

Go look at the front page of any news website or newspaper. The arrangement of the articles, the length of the pieces, who is interviewed, and what was not covered are decisions made by human beings.

 

It might to you, but that’s you applying a lens to my actions that I may or may not have applied myself. Perhaps I just went to the nearest taco joint that i could find due to a time crunch & some people were counting on me to provide. In that scenario, I don’t apply any political influence to my decision. Do you get what I’m saying?

 

totally agree with this but that’s specific to news media. Same rules don’t apply to every action the average citizen makes randomly throughout their life.

 

no, i know, that's my point

 

Call it whatever you want. If you don't like the term politics then use preference or gut feeling or whatever else you want. You made a variety of choices in that stop that tell us about who you are as a person and what you think is important.

 

Your personal motivations in choosing an action do not affect an actions political consequences.
The morality of the taco action can be justified by saying that providing food was more important than the political effect of econmically supporting tacobell but the action still has political consequences and so it cant be called non political.

 

Once again, this is precisely why this movie worked for me. And maybe it is unintentional! Maybe Garland accidentally created something that had a somewhat profound impact on me. But to me, the idea that these journalists are attempting to capture something objectively that is so inherently political is a fool's errand. So maybe this reflects on Garland and his intentions, but to me, their actions are immoral and reflect a way I've tried to live my life previously. That's why the film gave me so much to chew on and what I took away from it.

 

debating The Individual Politics of Stopping at a Taco Restaurant and Their Widespread Consequences seems a little on the nose for this website, guys

 

agree. let’s move on. Thanks for the discourse all


The tacos were fire btw.

 

fuck now i want tacos

 

I'm glad we can put tacogate behind us

 

https://amp.scmp.com/news/people-cu...mong-china-nationalists-over-hong-kong-versus

 

Digital on 5/24

 

put off seeing this until now because i knew i wasn't going to like it. enjoyed it even less than i had expected to. probably the worst film i've seen so far this year

 

did you see Argylle or Madame Web

 

why would i do that

 

Why did you know you weren't going to like it, and what about that ended up being true?

 

I'm just asking! those are the worst I've seen this year

 

Yeah argyle was probably worse. Didn’t see madame web. But this was still bad!

 

saw the trailer and not a fan of any of Garland's other work. i knew the ending going into it - jessie taking pictures of dunst as she dies, and the president saying 'don't let them kill me' before being shot - and they played out so much more egregiously than i'd been told

 

oh i know, i just don't hate myself enough to see either of those!

 

wow ok

 

I still think about the imagery of the downed helicopter in an empty mall parking lot and the sustained eeriness of the whole gas station scene.

 

now that I think about it, I could see all of the abandoned malls across America being converted into bases and encampments real quick if this ever became a reality

 

That’s just what malls look like now