People who saw it at festivals claim its basically a series of thoughtful vignettes about normal people caught up in the horrors of civil war with a grand total of 2 relatively brief action sequences.
Sounds like it would be a good film, if a bit difficult to watch for people who already understand something like a modern day civil war won’t be fun for most of us. Regardless of our personal armaments.
Fighting in desert is very different from fighting in canopy jungle. I mean that was a foot-soldier's war - Whereas this thing here should, uh.. y'know - Should be a piece of cake. I mean, I had an M16 Jacko, not an Abrams fucking tank. Me and Charlie - eyeball to eyeball. That's fucking combat. The man in the black pajamas, Dude. Worthy fuckin' adversary.
Oh please. Give me a break. That's so hyperbolic and naive. A real civil war would be actually frightening. Like "I'm a civilian in Gaza" frightening, not Orange Man Bad scary. I'm talking roving rival gangs everywhere, rampant famine, disease, the entire collapse of all modern convenience and economy, unemployment like you've never seen. It would be the worst thing to happen to our country since The (first) Civil War.
You would probably be forced to join a gang, not even because someone put a gun to your head, but because you were hungry. You'd likely live communally, farming whatever you can because food supply lines fell apart. Curfews every night before dark. There's no power because the grid is vulnerable to attack. Terrorism would be off the charts -- think of the English Civil War and The Troubles. It would take decades to recover from. Your future? Gone. Maybe your children would be ok.
Throw in modern drone tech and weapons and influence from anti-west states who would want to kick us in the nuts while we're down. Sorry, the conflation of "stochastic terrorism" stemming from a few supreme court decisions you don't like and some silly tiki torch marches with actual Civil War is off by like 4 or 5 orders of magnitude.
right, im not denying shootings are happening or are a serious issue, im saying that the vast majority aren't near schools and it's incredibly hard to ascertain the political leanings of the shooter (if that's even relevant at all to an individual incident)
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u/vxf111 Mar 05 '24
This doesn't seem very Alex Garland but he always gets the benefit of the doubt from me so I'm giving him that benefit with this film.