As someone who is both knowledgeable of and invested in national political debates, Joel, did the studiously apolitical, ground-level-soldiers-and-journalists approach of the film bother you at all? The trailers look great to me, but I wonder if I'd be mildly annoyed through the whole thing, always asking "Why?"
No accounting for taste, but it didn’t bother me at all. It’s decidedly not about the “why” - seems like we’re figuring that out in real life well enough - and more about “what then?”
As someone who is both knowledgeable of and invested in national political debates, Joel, did the studiously apolitical, ground-level-soldiers-and-journalists approach of the film bother you at all? The trailers look great to me, but I wonder if I'd be mildly annoyed through the whole thing, always asking "Why?"
No accounting for taste, but it didn’t bother me at all. It’s decidedly not about the “why” - seems like we’re figuring that out in real life well enough - and more about “what then?”
If it had been called “war” instead of “civil war,” I imagine we’d be having very different conversations about this movie.