‘Civil War’ Takes Box Office Spoils With $25.7M Opening, Best Ever For A24 – Sunday AM Update
https://deadline.com/2024/04/box-office-civil-war-1235882968/
shareThat article said its audience was mostly liberal. Well I'd say that mostly because A24 makes arthouse movies and the President in the movie is a Trump stand in. The rest of us know the movie is modeled after Biden's America.
shareYou can read Garland's mind?
shareWhile there are a few qualities of the president in the film that are consistent with Trump (dislike for journalists and the intelligence agencies, referencing God in speeches), there are no clear political motivations for anyone in the film. All we know is that there's a war on and that's it.
The very fact that Garland makes the principal rebel group in the film an alliance between Texas and California indicates that he was not trying to ascribe clear political motivations to anyone in the movie.
I know once I see the movie I'm going to be rooting for the California Texas Alliance to utterly demolish DC since it's the hot bead of the Corrupt Deep State.
shareI might caution you not to expect too much in terms of battles and seeing the actual war playing out on the front lines. That only makes up about 15% of the 1 hr 42 min run time.
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