{"id":67397,"date":"2024-04-18T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67397"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:13:58","slug":"lets-talk-about-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67397","title":{"rendered":"Let’s talk about Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let’s talk about Civil War<\/a><\/h3>\n

The movie, I mean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mrs. Woe and I went to see Alex Garland\u2019s\u00a0Civil War\u00a0<\/em>last\u00a0<\/em>Sunday evening.1<\/a><\/span>\u00a0It\u2019s worth seeing, and if you\u2019re going to see the movie, see it on the big screen at a good theater. We saw it with Dolby Cinema and it was a powerful experience. Our seats vibrated with every gun shot, every helicopter, every explosion. Neither of us had experienced such a visceral war movie since\u00a0Saving Private Ryan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Warning: The remainder of this essay will contain spoilers for the movie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After finishing\u00a0Civil War,\u00a0<\/em>my wife and I discussed its politics. Both of us agreed that Garland had done such a good job of making the movie sufficiently opaque that an average American of either Blue or Red persuasion could enjoy it. Most people would, we felt, look no deeper than the superficial message: \u201ccivil war bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

But we also both concluded it was, at its core, a left-wing movie. \u201cGiven the movie\u2019s left-wing sentiments, the progressive critics must have loved it,\u201d I thought. \u201cLet\u2019s see what they have to say!\u201d<\/p>\n

So I opened up Wired.com to read its review, entitled
\nThe Troubling Politics of Alex Garland\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>Civil War<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

When director\u00a0Alex Garland<\/a>\u00a0sat down in 2020 to write his new movie,\u00a0Civil War<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0he was clearly worried about the polarization of American society. The\u00a0Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0pandemic was just beginning to take hold, and former US president\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0was still in the White House. It was a much different country from the one in which Garland is releasing his biggest film to date.<\/p>\n

Garland [has] created\u2026 a far-right fantasy recruiting tool. In\u00a0Civil War<\/em>, Garland\u2019s apocalyptic US features a country ostensibly stripped of partisan labels, where both the left and right become intolerant of each other and turn deadly\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s talk about Civil War The movie, I mean. Mrs. Woe and I went to see Alex Garland\u2019s\u00a0Civil War\u00a0last\u00a0Sunday evening.1\u00a0It\u2019s worth seeing, and if you\u2019re going to see the movie, see it on the big screen at a good theater. We saw it with Dolby Cinema and it was a powerful experience. Our seats vibrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[920,30680,827,834],"class_list":["post-67397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-war","tag-contemplations-on-the-tree-of-woe","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67398,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67397\/revisions\/67398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}