It’s tough to deny that tensions are elevated in this country right now. The political divisions are more stark than they’ve ever been, and the possibility of armed conflict is at a high. Seems like the wrong time, or perhaps the best time (?) to put out a movie called Civil War that fictionalizes what it would look like if such an armed conflict that tore the nation apart would look like.
Leave it to writer/director Alex Garland to push those political hot buttons with Civil War. While much of the plot has been kept under wraps, the story appears to follow a group of journalists navigating the war zone as they try to reach the nation’s capital. Garland’s synopsis calls it “an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride through a near-future fractured America balanced on the razor’s edge.”
The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons and Jonica T. Gibb.
A24 will release Civil War into theaters and IMAX on April 12th. I’m curious to see how people react to this one. To me it looks amazing, and like an extension of Kevin Smith’s 2010 film Red State. But I also know that people are exhausted by the internal strife and may not want to pay money to watch it taken to such a horrific extent. We shall see. I’ll definitely be there though.
