{"id":1609251,"date":"2024-04-14T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=318848"},"modified":"2024-04-14T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T05:59:09","slug":"civil-war-alex-garlands-gripping-war-between-the-cinematic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/14\/civil-war-alex-garlands-gripping-war-between-the-cinematic-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War, Alex Garland\u2019s Gripping War Between the Cinematic States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A still from director Alex Garland’s film “Civil War.” (Courtesy A24)<\/p><\/div>\n

My derriere still hurts from sitting on the edge of my seat at an IMAX theater while gawking at London-born director Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War, which draws its inspiration from the USA\u2019s contemporary red-state-versus-blue-state zeitgeist. Civil War marks the second time in US history \u2013 since Major-General Robert Ross\u2019 British soldiers invaded the White House on August 24, 1814 \u2013 that the Executive Mansion has been attacked by Brits. But although this chilling movie\u2019s director is indeed an Englishman, the armed invaders in the provocative Civil War are actually Americans engaged in this insurrectionary, incendiary fable that has the ring of truth.<\/p>\n

In Civil War Garland brings the war home with his stark, startling dramatization of the type of fierce combat Americans are used to watching from afar on screens \u2013 and from their perches in imperialist cockpits and tank turrets \u2013 but are being fought right here in the homeland. As armed rebels march on Washington, D.C. \u2013 not on some hapless Third World country du jour \u2013 we witness shocking scenes of the Lincoln Memorial and White House, as well as the heartland, under attack in Civil War. (However, a closeup of machine gun nests in the Statue of Liberty\u2019s torch, which is depicted in posters, does not seem to actually appear per se onscreen.)<\/p>\n \t\t

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A still from director Alex Garland\u2019s film \u201cCivil War.\u201d (Courtesy A24)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My derriere still hurts from sitting on the edge of my seat at an IMAX theater while gawking at London-born director Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War, which draws its inspiration from the USA\u2019s contemporary red-state-versus-blue-state zeitgeist. Civil War marks the second time in US history \u2013 since Major-General Robert Ross\u2019 British soldiers invaded the White House on August 24, 1814 \u2013 that the Executive Mansion has been attacked by Brits. But although this chilling movie\u2019s director is indeed an Englishman, the armed invaders in the provocative Civil War are actually Americans engaged in this insurrectionary, incendiary fable that has the ring of truth.<\/p>\n

In Civil War Garland brings the war home with his stark, startling dramatization of the type of fierce combat Americans are used to watching from afar on screens \u2013 and from their perches in imperialist cockpits and tank turrets \u2013 but are being fought right here in the homeland. As armed rebels march on Washington, D.C. \u2013 not on some hapless Third World country du jour \u2013 we witness shocking scenes of the Lincoln Memorial and White House, as well as the heartland, under attack in Civil War. (However, a closeup of machine gun nests in the Statue of Liberty\u2019s torch, which is depicted in posters, does not seem to actually appear per se onscreen.)<\/p>\n

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