Starring Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny as journalists chronicling a war at home, writer-director Alex Garland's action film provokes a shudder of recognition.
The sharp crack of a snare drum, shuffling at an insistent martial clip, is what first kicks “Civil War” into gear. The beat is joined by some menacing electronic bloops and nervous muttering, and while you may assume this is the work of a promising young bedroom producer, it’s actually a 1968 track, “Lovefingers,” by the radical duo Silver Apples.
They, along with Lee’s writer colleague Joel and a veteran journalist, Sammy , who works for a much-diminished, perhaps criminalized New York Times, are making a run from New York City to Washington, D.C., where they hope to interview the president, bunkered in the White House and on the brink of surrender. “It’s the only story left,” insists Joel, even as we hear that press members have a tendency to get shot on the South Lawn.
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