Civil War review: A telling treatise on how divisive destroys powerful country

Updated On: 18 April, 2024 01:35 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

Civil War movie review: “Civil War” focuses on reporters/ photo-journalists who risk their lives in order to get the scoop before the competition

Still from Civil War

Film: Civil War
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Jesse Plemons, Nick Offerman.
Director: Alex Garland
Rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 99 min

America had it’s civil war during Abraham Lincoln’s time. This one is entirely fictional and its future dystopia being envisaged by writer- director Alex Garland. The narrative basically takes a journey across America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House and go ballistic.

This film may have been intended as a cautionary tale and is possibly an alternative future of a divided United States. The narrative comes at you with turbulence. We don’t get to know why the problems have arisen. Just that it exists. The takes are a technically proficient, hard hitting compendium of images depicting a genocidal, lynch-mob bent. The violence is a spectacle for sure and is there as a gratuitous accompaniment of turbulent,troubled times. In this movie the journalists are covering strife in their own country. So Alex Garland’s effort seems geared to bring out issues that deal with journalistic ethics during war torn times.

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