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Documenting a Civil War that Isn’t Real. Yet.

11 Apr

In this day and age, when evidence of how divided our country is can be found just by turning on any one of the multiple 24-hour news channels, do we really need a fictionalized cautionary tale of how bad things can get?

Not really.

But Alex Garland’s dystopian new film Civil War is exactly that. It plops us right into the middle of a United States where all the dire predictions we’ve been hearing about for years on CNN, Fox News, and the rest have come true. It’s not a pretty sight. But it is a pretty great movie.

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