I think it's more about choosing two large states associated with opposite ends of the political spectrum so that the motivations for the war are unimportant compared to the experience of war. The idea is to prevent the conflict from being coded as Team Red versus Team Blue.
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A movie about the politics of war would need to be a drama/satire. An action war movie tries to also incorporate politics would just result in shallow politics.
That's shallow and boring, and fuck 'em for being cowards.
War is bad. I don't like war. I don't want war. I just think it's a cowardly move to ignore the very real and very likely causes of said war, were it to occur here. It's like making a movie called The Rise of the Third Reich or something in 1938 that doesn't mention Jews.
No.
There are millions of people all over this country who desperately *want* a civil war. Ignoring them in a film about a civil war is a very clear choice, and not a good one.
Shocked, I say.
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Like, I wouldn't expect much of "Tyler Perry's 'Class War'", or "Harlan Cohen Presents: 'Proletarian Revolution'" either. 🤷
to the original posters point about the libidinal desire for violence Garland explicitly addresses it in an interview but( or and) locates it in the culture industry fed by men who experienced WW2..endless feedback loop.
I'm just not that audience. 😛