Civil War
Francois Truffaut famously said it’s impossible to make an anti-war film since the medium of film can make war bombastic and exciting. Alex Garland must’ve heard this and took it as a challenge because Civil War is one of the most disturbing war films ever made. It was horrifying watching familiar looking shopping centers, suburbs, and farms torn apart and decimated in disturbing fashions. The movie felt like watching newsreels of a war on the cusp of happening, as Garland brilliantly captured the destruction division can cause. While I know audiences were disappointed in the lack of political clarity for what caused the war itself, I liked that examining division and conflict itself was more of a focus. Civil War is a devastating film and presented war as its meant to be presented, horrifying.
