With Garland playing it safe, then, Civil War is seen entirely from the perspective of America’s true heroes, the real consciousness of the nation: corporate journalists. You can giggle, but that’s the pitch. In this world, journalists are not enforcers of the status quo who spend their lives scrolling Xitter to satiate the incentives dangled before them by Globohomo; instead, they’re artistic bohemians out in the field, risking death in the name of uncovering truth and snapping that perfect shot of humanity under extreme duress. A world-weary Kirsten Dunst takes a plucky crew of journos and her Oscar-bait double chin through a series of set-pieces illustrating a war that is fought for reasons never explained, and by people it is impossible to feel any empathy for.
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