It’s actually really good from a cinematography and sound design perspective.

I get that it has totally incoherent lib politics but I actually really liked it.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    I mean that’s not surprising, Alex Garland is an exceptionally talented filmmaker. I think everything he’s made has been excellent. I am surprised how libs the politics are - everything he’s made before made me think he’d at least be left of lib.

  • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I’ve heard that it’s fairly apolitical for a movie about a civil war and that they don’t really get into the conflict itself and instead focus on the journalists. everyone made fun of that silly map but it ended up being totally inconsequential to the movie itself

    anyway I torrented a 4K copy, I’ll probably watch it tonight

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    I think the discourse I’ve seen around this movie is that Garland is a much better director than writer. Though thinking back on his prior work I’m not sure that’s true either.

    Edit: tbc I mean I think his prior work is both well written and directed generally.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    I got the feeling the president was meant to be a trump like figure, but then they made changes to obfuscate that by making it politically incoherent.

  • Walk_On [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Haven’t seen it yet, but hearing Will, Felix and Hesse on Chapo compare Alex Garland to Aaron Sorkin in terms of how they both revere journalists was something I didn’t expect and something I found really funny considering all the people who have tried to defend this movie.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    Storywise there’ve been better “Jornos are real fucked up sickos” movies. And I felt like, in terms of worldbuilding, Garland based the whole thing on Twitter factions. It’s a movie with Trump brain. There’s a slight scent of like, Resistance-era lib smugness. At the end of the movie

    spoiler

    A random soldier, I think it might’ve been a black woman, shoots Donald Trump in the heart. The movie feigns neutrality “oh, we’ve simply presented this image of a soldier executing an unarmed prisoner of war, you make up your own mind about that.” But I felt like what the movie wanted you to think was something like “wouldn’t it be a shame if things got this bad, but at least we killed the bad guy who was responsible for all the evils that played out here. It’s not a deeper issue with America, or the West, it’s just a small band of Fascists that want to wreck things and have also managed to seize all the levers of power.”

    But in terms of like, visual and auditory storytelling, top-notch film. I feel like my issues with the story are balanced out by my appreciation for how it was told, such that I don’t regret seeing it. Though it’s also not worth spending much more thought on than this. A picture that was a good watch but not good to reflect upon.