A24’s American Civil War Doesn’t Take Sides. And It’s Terrifying
Director Alex Garland doesn’t need to play with politics to strike at our deepest anxieties.
Despite its name, the new film Civil War is vague about who’s fighting whom. We’re in America, certainly, yet director Alex Garland doesn’t want to dwell on red states versus blue states. His goal is simply to depict a US at war with itself…