Civil War – A movie without politics or social context

Civil War is an action film from A24 studios set in the near-future of an America in the midst of an ongoing internecine war between the federal government, several states and rival militia forces.

The nominal subject of the film—the United States in the last stages of a civil war that has brought society to the brink of barbarism—is clearly of immense relevance and interest. The movie has been released in the midst of the 2024 election campaign and just over three years since the George Floyd Riots across the US in the summer of 2020, or the supposed unarmed ‘coup’ of January 6, 2021, in which the incumbent president attempted to claim that Democrats would cheat and steal an election and attempted to stop the transfer of power through a legal maneuver preventing certification. In Texas there have been confrontations between Texas National Guard armed troops and US Federal Customs armed agents guiding immigrants across the border and opening fences for the newcomers. The current Republican Party front runner for the presidential nomination, Trump, is being brought to trial in numerous states by Democrats and kept off the ballot in some states.

However, Civil War provides in the end no explanation of anything. Indeed, it attempts to make a virtue of not even trying to do so...https://xenagoguevicene.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/civil-war-a-movie-without-politics-or-social-context-19-april-2024/