{"id":612912,"date":"2024-03-15T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/civil-war-director-blasts-incredibly-dangerous-political-divide-issues-warning\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T17:03:09","slug":"civil-war-director-blasts-incredibly-dangerous-political-divide-issues-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/civil-war-director-blasts-incredibly-dangerous-political-divide-issues-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Civil War\u2019 Director Blasts \u2018Incredibly Dangerous\u2019 Political Divide, Issues Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Civil War<\/em> writer-director Alex Garland is addressing some of the biggest questions circling his upcoming A24 action-drama: Why now? What is he trying to say with the film? And why are Texas and California allies in his fictional conflict, exactly? <\/em><\/p>\n

\n At a South by Southwest Film & TV panel the day after the film\u2019s world premiere screening, the Ex Machina<\/em> and Annihilation<\/em> filmmaker answered a few of the burning questions about the film. Civil War<\/em> has raised eyebrows for its timing, coming amid a contentious election year in which President Biden has claimed<\/a> \u201cdemocracy is at stake\u201d given his opponent Donald Trump\u2019s history of attempts to subvert election laws. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen I worked on Ex Machina<\/em>, [which was] about AI, people sometimes use the word \u2018prescient\u2019 or \u2018predictive\u2019 [to describe the film] and I always feel slightly embarrassed when people say that because at the time I wrote it, there was [already] a huge debate happ<\/a>ening about it,\u201d Garland said. \u201cI think all of the topics in in [Civil War<\/em>] have been a part of a huge public debate for years and years. These debates have been growing and growing in volume and awareness, but none of that is secret or unknown to almost anybody. I thought that everybody understands these terms and, at that point, I just felt compelled to write about it. If you cast your mind back to when I wrote this in June four years ago, there was an election coming and we\u2019re dealing with Covid \u2014 the same conversations as now. Identical. So that\u2019s where it came from.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Garland added that the film isn\u2019t meant to be a criticism of the United States specifically. \u201cAmerica\u2019s divisions are echoed almost precisely in many countries around the world,\u201d the British filmmaker said. \u201cIn the case of America, there\u2019s an extra danger given its power and importance in the world. America has an internal concept in its exceptionalism that means it feels it\u2019s immune to some kinds of problems. One of the things history shows us is that nobody is immune. Nobody is exceptional. And if we don\u2019t apply rationality and decency and thoughtfulness to these problems, in any place, it can get out of control. I\u2019m not trying to locate [these problems] to America, that would be factually wrong. I can take you back home [to Britain] and can show you the same stuff happening in my country. But the implications here are much greater.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n Garland also added America\u2019s massive availability of guns wasn\u2019t a factor in setting the film here (despite guns being extensively used in the film). \u201cAny country can disintegrate into civil war whether there are guns floating around the country or not,\u201d he noted. \u201cSome civil wars have been carried out with machetes and still managed to kill a million people.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n At one point, Garland rather passionately pointed out that Civil War<\/em> is trying to create a conversation about political divisiveness in general<\/a> that vilifies the other side; ratcheting up rhetoric into a moral debate which makes it easier to see others as morally wrong \u2014 and once somebody is considered morally wrong, people can justify all sorts of extreme measures to stop them. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhy are we talking and not listening?\u201d he asked. \u201cWe\u2019ve lost trust in the media and politicians. And some in the media are wonderful and some politicians are wonderful\u2014on both sides of the divide. I have a political position and I have good friends on the other side of that political divide. Honestly, I\u2019m not trying to be cute: What\u2019s so hard about that? Why are we shutting [conversation] down? Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That\u2019s all they are. They are not a right or wrong, or good and bad. It\u2019s which do you think has greater efficacy? That\u2019s it. You try one, and if that doesn\u2019t work out, you vote it out, and you try again a different way. That\u2019s a process. But we\u2019ve made it into \u2018good and bad.\u2019 We made it into a moral issue, and it\u2019s fucking idiotic, and incredibly dangerous \u2026 I personally [blame] some of this on social media<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n Garland was also asked about the vagueness of the war in his film. The film\u00a0imagines a near-future dystopia\u00a0where the United States has been torn apart under the authoritarian rule of a three-term president (Nick Offerman). The story follows a journalist (Kirsten Dunst) and her colleagues as they make their way across a hostile and divided states of America. Yet the film avoids current red state\/blue state divisions (Texas and California are allies). In fact, the conflict\u2019s politics are left almost entirely unexplained in the film, leaving the viewer with no more clues about what led up to the battle beyond what\u2019s already revealed in the trailers (though one of the president\u2019s first actions was to disband the FBI, which seems like a nod to Trump, who has called to \u201cdefund\u201d the Bureau).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI personally think questions are<\/em> answered,\u201d Garland says. \u201cThere is a fascist president who smashed the Constitution and attacked [American] citizens. And that is a very clear, answered statement. If you want to think about why Texas and California might be allied, and put aside their political differences, the answer would be implicit in that. So I think answers are there but you have to step to it and not expect to be spoon fed these things. It makes assumptions about the audience \u2026 the warnings [about the country falling apart] all out there, but for some reason they don\u2019t get any traction. [I wondered,] \u2018Is it the polarization? Is it just that we are not able to absorb any information because of the position we\u2019ve already taken?\u2019 Hence, making a movie that pulls the polarization out of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n The audience reaction to the film has been effusive, with viewers calling it a riveting, disturbing, masterful piece of filmmaking (read the audience and critic first reactions), while critics so far have given it a 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (read The Hollywood Reporter\u2019<\/em>s review). <\/p>\n

\n The film\u2019s timing has been a source of debate online. \u201cThe potential danger is that [right-wing] groups are not known for media literacy or nuance,\u201d wrote one reader in an American Civil war subreddit before the film\u2019s SXSW premiere. \u201cAnd a psychotic gang of rednecks committing terrorism [in the film] to \u2018own the libs\u2019 might be obvious criticism to us, but might be interpreted as a role model to MAGA groups if not portrayed carefully.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n While others have said the film\u2019s subject matter seems too close to home right now. \u201cThe idea of another American civil war happening today actually keeps me up at night,\u201d\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0another reader on the American Civil War subreddit. \u201cThis is a movie that I want to keep far away from. Even if it\u2019s based on a political scenario so far removed from our own. I just do not want to entertain the notion of something so horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n While the idea of a modern-day civil war might seem far-fetched, a\u00a02022 poll<\/a>\u00a0by YouGov and the\u00a0Economist<\/em>\u00a0found that 40 percent of Americans believe a new civil war is \u201cat least somewhat likely in the next 10 years.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n Civil War<\/em> also stars Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Sonoya Mizuno. The film will be released in theaters and IMAX on April 12. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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