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Civil War, the near-future dystopia film from director Alex Garland starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Cailee Spaeny, was steeped in controversy before it even premiered. But it turns out that the film and the conflicts it’s actually most interested in exploring aren’t at all what people had been expecting. While it certainly is a ‘war film’, the specific civil war in question isn’t the point so much as the framing for the themes the story actually seeks to unravel. So what was Garland really trying to say with Civil War? Let’s take a closer look at the film to analyze what it's really about.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:43 thanks to Conflict of Nations
01:36 Why the war in Civil War is kept so vague
03:10 Civil War, Children of Men, 28 Days Later
05:09 The movie's effective use of quiet violence
06:05 Using the journalists to tell the larger story
07:39 The different reasons for/effects of desensitization
10:22 Civil War's ending explained


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