Civil War 2024, 7 of 10, Not At All The Movie Joe Was Hoping For (TellTalk)
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The movie, at the beginning, slightly hints at the USG being the "bad guys" because the journalists are warned that going to DC to talk to the president would be a "death sentence". The WF being the "good guys" is slightly suggested because they allow the journalists to tag along, though rouge members of the WF did try to kill those journalists at one point.
Other than that, no real hints about good guys vs bad guys. No real understanding of why the war is being fought. No clear political positions of any kind. Nothing racial. The bish who killed the president was a nog, and many of the WF forces, supposed good guys, were black. Some chink journalists were killed for being chink, but seemed to be an aside, as they were killed by rouge fighters of the WF, which were led by nogs at one point.
All in all, the movie was good cinemaphotography, though at times, was a bit on the fart huffing side, where photography was used solely for the sake of getting showing off cinematic skills instead of helping the move and the story along.
It did drag on a bit at times, and didn't have any real cohesion as a story other than "war is hell" and war journalists are courageous for taking pictures during live combat.
The movie was dystopic to the point where any correlation to real time or actual or even potential future events could only be made if you were trying to make a connection where none actually exists. I found it very easy to separate the factions on either side with any real time or real world political groups or factions. The exact same story could be told in a setting anywhere in the world, in any country, and nothing would be changed, except in the background.
The director said it right. This movie isn't about politics. It isn't about real world events or near future happenings. It's about the importance of journalists and the incredible risks some of them must be willing to take to get the shot, and tell the story, even though, in this movie, no real clear story was ever told other than that journalists must be brave and go through hell to get that shot.
The movie was easy to watch, not nearly the horrific scenes many made out, but again, this wasn't a story about the US falling off the edge into a civil war. This movie was about what journalists go through to report a war story.
Huge pet peeves about the girl using a film camera. Who the fuck uses film in 2024? And, 2 women, 2 dudes, running around combat zones, dealing with war crazed people, and not even a suggestion that them getting raped was ever on the table. Not betting that's at all real world.
But I bet you see Joe on here, I the near future, simply making shit up about this movie being some sort of trigger. It wasn't. Alex Jones once suggested Machete was going to start a race war, although it turned out to be a spoofy, near comical, b flick, but Machete was far, far more likely to start a race war than Civil War will be a trigger toward an actual civil war.
