r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 20 '24

Civil War | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA4wVhs3HC0
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u/TaskForceD00mer Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24

I don't get how people are so passionate about the politics of this movie without knowing much in the way of details.

What we know based on the trailer, summaries released about the film and cast interviews:

  1. During a Presidents 3rd term in office, the nation is plunged into a civil war. The President is described in a "dictator" in one interview given by Kirsten Dunst.

  2. A group of Southeastern States, labeled the Florida Alliance, teamed up with a group of Western States, headed by Texas and California, called the Western Alliance are "against" the sitting US Government.

  3. A group of reporters covers the war across the country, including an expected assault by Western Alliance forces on the Capitol, which appears to be shown in part during trailer #1 and #2.

  4. At some point one of the groups fighting in the civil war are wearing Hawaiian shirts (drawn your own conclusions)

  5. A comment that "They shoot journalists on site" on what is presumed to be "US Government" territory

  6. Fat Damon wears some dope ass red glasses and appears to be committing horrendous war crimes, because why not

  7. "The film explores Partisan Extremist Militias committing war crimes", again based on an interview given in December.

We literally don't know what the actual film is going to show, which "party" , assuming US Political parties are even identified, sides with whom, etc.

I am going to see this one because I'm curious to see how its shown but without actually seeing the film it's too early to just assume the movie will either skirt US Party Politics or it may even be ON THE NOSE with them.

Keeping this vague has been brilliant marketing because it has people from all political identities engaged.

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u/TheBatemanFlex Feb 21 '24

“Journalists are vilified, often, by all sorts of different people,” he says in the Empire piece. “It’s not necessarily a side of the political spectrum. And the truth is that if you want a government with checks and balances, you need journalists.”

It’s not about just the trailer. It’s interview responses like this by Garland that give some indication of what he wants to achieve with the film.