I recently invited a friend to a NYC screening of Alex Garland’s Civil War (A24, 4.12).
“Thanks but I don’t think I’m’interested,” he replied. “I’m just not in the mood for a Very Important Movie (read: explicitly political) right now.”
I was going to explain that the narrative backdrop, according to the reviews, isn’t explicitly political, at least in terms of reflecting the red-vs.-blue, Trump MAGA vs. woke libtard dynamic. But that’s okay…
Posted on 3.14 after the SXSW debut:
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