Civil War review: Alex Garland’s latest is borderline irresponsible

, a story of tech-bro hubris and cyborg rebellion. His exploration of contemporary technology, gender, and politics should make him the ideal candidate to tackle a film about a modern American conflict:In Garland’s most ambitious – and biggest-budget – project to date, America has been splintered into factions of roving separatists, and a second civil war has begun.

Various states have become allies – including Texas and California, who make strange bedfellows given their opposing politics – and are descending on Washington DC to storm the White House. Meanwhile, a coalition called the Florida Alliance challenges the supremacy of the California-Texas alliance and war crimes are being committed by all the gun-toting sides.It’s hard to fault Garland’s storytelling.

But instead of a deeper meaning to all this, there’s a void. Dunst’s Lee has a sort of emptiness to her. Perhaps that’s a comment on war journalism and its cynicism, or the hollowing-out that it does to a human being, or neither of these things: maybe it simply an emptiness in Garland’s film.

The film refuses to explore any political backstory – why did red and blue states become allies, and to what end? How did this war actually begin? And its failure to suggest the actual dangers besetting the US in the lead-up to an election that could well mean the capsizing of democracy feels borderline irresponsible.is clearly in dialogue with the horrors of Charlottesville in 2017 and the tear-gas clouds of the 2020 riots.

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