{"id":612996,"date":"2024-03-15T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-alex-garlands-worst-case-vision-of-america\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T04:34:21","slug":"watch-alex-garlands-worst-case-vision-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-alex-garlands-worst-case-vision-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Alex Garland&#8217;s Worst-Case Vision of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3f260d176\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3f260d176\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-alex-garlands-worst-case-vision-of-america\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Alex_Garlands_Worst-Case_Vision_of_America%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Alex Garland&#8217;s Worst-Case Vision of America&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-alex-garlands-worst-case-vision-of-america\/#%E2%80%9CAlex_Garlands_Worst-Case_Vision_of_America%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Alex Garland&#8217;s Worst-Case Vision of America&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Alex_Garlands_Worst-Case_Vision_of_America%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Alex Garland&#8217;s Worst-Case Vision of America&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAlex_Garlands_Worst-Case_Vision_of_America%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Alex Garland&#8217;s Worst-Case Vision of America&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The press are the good guys, but also kind of the bad guys, in Alex Garland\u2019s virtuosic \u201cCivil War,\u201d a jarring ground-level account of what a near-future disunification of the United States might look like. Intended as a wake-up call, the long-fuse thriller \u2014 which starts slow and snowballs to a jaw-dropping raid on Washington, D.C. \u2014 embeds viewers alongside a dedicated team of journalists making their way to the Capitol while the country unravels around them. It\u2019s the most upsetting dystopian vision yet from the sci-fi brain that killed off all of London for the zombie uprising depicted in \u201c28 Days Later,\u201d and one that can\u2019t be easily consumed as entertainment. A provocative shock to the system, \u201cCivil War\u201d is designed to be divisive. Ironically, it\u2019s also meant to bring folks together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Led by veteran war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst), the tight crew of journalists are total pros. They represent a troubling form of detachment, essential to their job yet practically counter-human as they endeavor not to take sides, which serves as an indictment unto itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> outlets thrive on conflict, which sells papers and drives ratings, going so far as to foment fear around the possibility of a second American civil war. Garland doesn\u2019t care how this one happened. His <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> skips past why the conflict started, aside from the questionable notion that Texas and California both seceded and subsequently pooled resources (calling themselves \u201cthe Western Forces\u201d) against a power-hungry three-term president (Nick Offerman).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Though it looks like another entry in the popular post-apocalyptic thriller genre, make no mistake: \u201cCivil War\u201d depicts the apocalypse itself. The country\u2019s in full meltdown, suggested more than depicted outright. Americans have turned on one another, and the only people permitted to move freely through active-fire spaces are the ones with \u201cPRESS\u201d stenciled on their flak jackets. Garland establishes the chaos early, as Lee covers a mob scene where civilians reduced to refugees in their own country clamor for water. Suddenly, a woman runs in waving an American flag, a backpack full of explosives strapped to her chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Like the coffee-shop explosion in Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s \u201cChildren of Men,\u201d the v\u00e9rit\u00e9-style blast puts us on edge \u2014 though the wider world might never witness it, were it not for Lee, who picks up her camera and starts documenting the carnage. Seconds before, she\u2019d pulled a young admirer, Jessie (\u201cPriscilla\u201d star Cailee Spaeny), to safety, effectively saving the life of this wet-behind-the-ears wannabe. It\u2019s Jessie goal to be a war photographer, too, though she works with black-and-white film \u2014 a young <em>artiste<\/em> to Lee\u2019s run-and-gun shooter. The ambitious newcomer talks her way into Lee\u2019s next mission, driving with reporter Joel (Walter Moura) and veteran political journalist Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson) to D.C. to interview the president \u2014\u00a0three generations of journos with very different agendas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Jessie sees herself in the girl, even if she doesn\u2019t see herself in her own reflection anymore. In a quiet but revealing scene, the foursome roll into a town that seems untouched by war. They step into a shop, where Lee tries on a dress, studying herself in the mirror. The movie is that mirror, showing America the risks of in-fighting and the potential costs of division. \u201cCivil War\u201d is a cautionary tale, repurposing the sort of imagery audiences have seen in overseas war zones \u2014 dissidents hanging from bridges, lime-covered corpses piled into mass graves \u2014 and applying them to familiar, all-American settings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s startling, to say the least. Still, Lee has seen worse in her life (early on, decompressing in her bath, she cycles through a sampling of arm\u2019s-length horrors she\u2019s documented over her career, including a man lit on fire). If ever she knew empathy, Lee now seems desensitized beyond repair. When Jessie asks her idol what she\u2019d do if Jessie were dying, Lee stares back coldly and says, \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d She\u2019d get the shot, of course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Audiences have never seen Dunst like this. She looked rough in \u201cPower of the Dog,\u201d but here, covering conflicts has drained the essence right out of her. (The star appeared radiant at the film\u2019s SXSW premiere, underscoring the transformation she undertook for a role where resilience and plain, adrenaline-fueled instinct override basic self-care.) Garland gives the character several opportunities to reconnect with her humanity, even as this tense, increasingly brutal road <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> pushes the team deeper into the proverbial heart of darkness. Most of the movie takes place in broad daylight, not at all the aesthetic audiences expect from a modern-day war movie, which typically uses strategic filters to make everything look gritty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cCivil War\u201d may unfold in a parallel dimension (the Cal-Texan team-up blurs whether it\u2019s blue or red states running this uprising), but it looks a lot like the America we know. At times, amid the confusion, the characters can\u2019t distinguish between rebels and patriots \u2014 as in a scene at an outdoor Winter Wonderland attraction, where soldiers try to take out a sniper. In that situation, it hardly matters which team he\u2019s on. Later, Jessie Plemons shows up wearing a camo uniform and heart-shaped sunglasses, pointing his gun at the unarmed journalists. \u201cWhat kind of American are you?\u201d he demands of each of them. In today\u2019s political climate, some pose similar questions, with equally intimidating subtext.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    By this point, the film has tilted toward full-blown horror. Indeed, the final stretch feels more like something out of Stephen King (\u201cThe Mist\u201d or \u201cThe Stand\u201d) than any war movie that\u2019s come before, as the small band of journalists accompanies the Western Forces for its big push on D.C. Although Garland showed Offerman preparing a speech as president at the outset, he seeded doubts in the man\u2019s sincerity by intercutting real-world uprisings with the commander in chief\u2019s words. Even so, surely no American wants to see what comes next, as Jessie and Lee shadow troops trying to shoot their way into the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Earlier on, the battles were intense but somehow theoretical. This climactic siege looks terrifying, albeit wildly different from the kind of real-world warfare we\u2019ve witnessed in Ukraine. At first, Jessie tended to freeze up under fire, but now she appears fearless, while Lee is wracked by anxiety attacks. If you saw combat boots stomping the American flag, could you stand by and take pictures? Sick to her soul, Lee\u2019s reaction is what many of our reactions were upon seeing Jan. 6 unfold. And yet, embedded alongside insurrectionists whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> may well have inspired, these eyewitnesses to history are fueled by a totally distorted sense of duty: Their sole focus is to get the shot \u2014 or the story, as the case may be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Anyone who saw Garland\u2019s previous film, the A24-backed freakout \u201cMen,\u201d knows the director doesn\u2019t shy away from pushing things to their most nauseating extreme. \u201cCivil War\u201d is no different. Garland trades in triggering images, not just of war crimes but also in depicting the way such visuals are captured. Meanwhile, ambiguities surrounding the origins of the conflict mean there\u2019s no way to defuse what we\u2019re watching. Sight unseen, \u201cCivil War\u201d has been criticized for exploiting tensions in an election year, when in fact, it\u2019s meant to illustrate the futility of \u201csides.\u201d Garland\u2019s the last person to suggest a group hug. As statements go, his powerful vision leaves us shaken, effectively repeating the question that quelled the L.A. riots: Can we all get along?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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