In CIVIL WAR journalists run into white nationalists making a mass grave and the perpetrators commit extremely explicit hatecrime murder to try and cover it up. If you want to see a trump analogue tarred & feathered in a movie just say that. "It has no politics" is unserious
If anything, stuff like that throughout the movie might be too on the nose, which I would certainly say is a flaw. But that problem is very different than what people apparently want it to be wrong about.
@VyceVictus Its politics are shallow, barely more than window dressing. It fundamentally has no point of view, and the idea that journalists simply document with no point of view is a total cop out. It’s really Garland’s least intellectually engaging movie by a wide margin.
@VyceVictus But see, YOU are making the connection to the characters in the movie to Trump. You saw that. Ask yourself what that means.
@VyceVictus Not a subtle film just more confused was an issue for me. Definitely on the nose in some parts (though I loved the Plemmons scene, more of a threatening presence than all the guns and tanks in the film combined). But Texas and California as the coalition fighting the gov... wth
@VyceVictus I think the politics of the movie are pretty shallow in themselves with rather clunky framing but it’s still a watchable movie. I’m just not particularly interested in seeing it again