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?
Wow! I just examined Shirly Temple's complete filmography on Wikipedia, and couldn't find a single silent film listed.
Do you know something we don't?
Regards,
I haven’t seen it because I’m not sure from which political persuasion the movie is coming from. I’ve heard recently that it’s actually more a movie that is pro left than to conservatives. But I’m glad you’re asking the forum here so we can find out exactly what is fact and fiction.
The timing of this movie is interesting as we do seem on the edge of a civil war. Arguably much more so than in the 1850s.
The movie is predicated on a ridiculous suppostion: CA and TX are mortal ememies and would NEVER join forces.
Perhaps that was the point
Spoiler alert: This movie ends with a black female soldier standing over a fictional U.S. president who refused to leave office. The female soldier shoots and kills him, explaining it’s the fastest way to end the lie...to save democracy.
The point being the movie is ridiculous and written by an idiot? Is that the point? But if you liked it fine. Not my cup of tea.
The natural division in the USA would be the South + the mid-west forming a union agains the rest of the USA. Maybe electing a congress and placing their capital in Dallas. That would be a REAListic civil war movie plot.
PS: CA LOVES the federal govt.
The Elites want you to follow their narratives. They want you to believe “If I don’t think their narrative is believable, maybe I am the problem”.
That’s why I refuse to participate.
That's the unconscious subtext of the movie people are missing. It's a non-white coalition of females, blacks, and hispanics who take-down the White president.
The whole strong women, saintly minorities and Nazi-infused Whites tropes where slathered "subtly" throughout the movie.
I was pretty disappointed.
They’d need Southern California for agriculture and access to the Pacific.
In fiction, it's the writer's responsibility to give reasons and explanations for things that may seem absurd.
The fact that many people ask about the California-Texas alliance goes to show it's confusing to people. A good writer could have added on sentence to fill in the blanks. It's a big plot hole for many people.
Kurt Schlicter said it’s a woke dog.
Come man, it is called the gulf of Mexico.
Yeah the minute I heard “the Texas-California coalition...” in the trailers I said to myself “skip it”.
At least the South had several months to organize and prepare for war. It had leaders trained by the best US Military academies. That is why a 90 day dust up lasted four long years. I see no preparation now just bold talk.
It’s a road trip movie, not a war movie.
It’s Marxist commie trash. The message is that if you’re anything but a progressive Marxist commie then you’re the enemy. Notice the Yellow Vests (France) and the Blue Helmet (The UN Soldiers). The messages are sometime blatant and sometimes subliminal but they are all pushing a single narrative.
Notice the bad guy in someplace like the Ozarks who plays an ignorant mean hateful hillbilly bully. Are there people like that, maybe, but there are far more rural folk who are not.
Civil War is progressive trash.
I don’t watch movies just to note the woke BS in them so I didn’t notice any of that. All I want is to be entertained.
What I did notice is.....it was boring!!
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