Posted on 05/13/2024 12:36:12 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
Over the course of my lifetime these are some of the film makers I have revered:
Charlie Chaplin (more for his silent features than his talkies) and Shirley Temple, (both as a child and adult for the former and as a child only for the latter), Woody Allen (when i was a tertiary student in the 1970's and 1980's but less so now) Steve Bochco, primarily for the reinvention of what television can do through Hill Street Blues and Shawn Ryan and Micheal Ciklis for The Shield which I consider an even better drama than HSB and the best thing ever filmed IMH(but limited)O.
Today I have seen one movie that on first viewing has blown me away with the indcredible fusion of showing reality combimned with astonishing imagination.
Alex Garland's Civil War. It is visual feat from start to finish.
Close to the beginning it eschews partisanship by naming California and Texas as the two rebel states of the fictional Western Forces.
But at the end its depiction of a righteous slaughter of a hypocritical lying tyrant looks to me like a condemnation of the enemies of the much maligned January 6 freedom fighters.
I am an old man.
I know I don't always get everything right.
Am I wrong on this one?
Absurdity can be a literary vehicle itself. A person from California may say “People in Texas can learn a lot from us due to our intellectual superiority” so they don’t see it as absurd.
By former I meant Chaplin and by latter I meant Temple.
Too many ideas in the one sentence
In the opening scenes, where that white president lies about qhat is happening while police attack protestors, that president reminds me of the Biden lawfare against Trump and the January 6 protestors.
I do not think the film is progressive or conservative. I think it looks at the sort of future America possibly faces if intolerant polarisation continues to grow.
I agree that Abbott’s Texas and Newsome’s California are not on the same side now.
But I think the plot device of making California and Texas the two states in the movie’s Western Forces is what makes it hard to definitively equate either the Trump or Biden side of politics now with the movie’s authoritarian federal government.
You say it’s a road trip movie not a war movie.
What I saw was a road trip into the heart of a war.
If that’s true then they can kiss my @ss, I’ll never see it.
They are always so busy.
The movie was ok. Would have liked to have seen more of the war, but the focus was on the reporters road trip to Washington.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.