Civil War
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In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Wokeness: 80%
Overall Score: 40%
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Midnight
Woke!
The President is Trump and it makes him out to be a dictator, before having the journalists kill him in the end. An Antifa left wing activist journo's wet dream I daresay!
Created: 04-16-2024
Ethan Blanchard
Great action movie, vagueness of politics makes it timeless
The most woke element of this movie is that journalists are portrayed as heroes. Otherwise, the movie is intentionally vague on its politics so that you can see your own side as the good guys no matter where you stand.
In the film, the federal government is headed by Ron Swanson whose politics are not discussed. We "know" he's bad because he "ordered air strikes on American citizens", has a third term, and abolished the FBI. The federal government is opposed by the Western Forces of California & Texas. Since, in real life, these states are opposites, this is an example of how the director intentionally blurs elements of our actual political issues so that we can't see thru the lens of our personal politics.
When we see conflict between the Western Forces and the feds, we can't tell whether the film considers the Western Forces to be good guys, it's just that the protagonists are following them around. There's also no racial element. When we get to the end of the film, we see black soldiers of the Western Forces kill black feds.
In the middle of the film, a bad guy, who is white (Jesse Plemons) kills a journalist who is from Hong Kong. However, this isn't based on race. Plemons kills the journalist only when Plemons learns that he is not an American citizen: it is nationalistic. We also never learn if Plemons' character was a fed, part of the Western Forces, some local militia, or just some random murderer.
There are some slow and boring scenes, but the movie on the whole is very entertaining, politically vague, and so violent.
Created: 05-07-2024
45trump47
Not super woke
Definitely ambiguous, but it's implied to be about Trump. In typical liberal fashion though, they accuse the others of which they are doing themselves. Very "press" focused, and much less about civil war, almost like it was written with war journalists in mind from their perspective and journey. Quite a few DIE casting. Not exactly indoctrination enough to be a 3/5 woke. 1 point for DIE, 1 point for the implication of offerman portraying Trump (blue suit, red tie).
Created: 05-27-2024
Michaels
Leftist propaganda
Here are the mappings from the movie to reality:
President => Trump
dissolution of FBI by prez => fear of Trump doing same
third term => Leftist projection
journalists on side of rebels => Leftist journalists against Trump
journalists shot on sight in DC => fear of Trump
California => California
Texas => New York
revolution => Leftist contingency plan if Trump wins
When I asked Microsoft Copilot (GPT-4) to evaluate these mappings, it replied:
"Looks like I can’t respond to this topic."
Similarly, ChatGPT-4o crashed.
Figures. However, earlier in the conversation, Copilot commented:
"While not directly related to 'Civil War,' it’s worth noting that historically, the CIA has engaged in covert efforts to influence media content. However, this was often done to promote ideological perspectives that ran counter to democratic ideals."
And Copilot gave an interesting reference, "The Historical Roots of CIA-Hollywood Propaganda":
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129369
Microsoft Copilot didn't kill itself.
The final scene is like a CNN reporter's wet dream. The reporter does not hold up a decapitated head of the President, but he does something conceptually similar.
This movie is full on Kathy Griffin TDS. This is extremely dangerous Leftist propaganda. It deserves a 5/5 woke and Gitmo for any US government employees involved, as they are not protected by the first amendment in this case. Overall, I give it 0/5, because it's cancer, albeit well-produced cancer.
Created: 05-31-2024
Pha-Q woke
Woke Propaganda.
Where to start with how bad this piece of trash is. So we are to believe that Texas and California would form a military alliance. You have to be
joking. We have 4 journalists at the center of this 2 female, 1 black male and 1 Brazilian male. Of course they are the heroes, no white males.
The acting is really not very good. We start off with a protest in NYC that shows 'patriots' fighting with police and use a suicide bomber
waving the American flag. Really. No antifa or blm terrorists anywhere to be seen. All journalists and MSM are shown to be courageous, brave,
virtuous, noble and unbiased. You know the actual opposite of reality. The president is in his third term, uses airstrikes against Americans,
has abolished the FBI and hates journalists. This is clearly and not subtle at all meant to be Trump according to the leftist propaganda.
All bad people are white males who are also shown to be racist. In fact as far as I can remember almost all military soldiers and combatants are white males and are bad. Peaceful refugee camp appears to be mostly female and non white. They drive through a town in the middle of all this that appears to be completely untouched by any fighting and totally fine populated by white people. I can only remember there being one lone female combatant in the entire movie. She is black at the end of the movie and is only there so a POC can shoot the president. There is a lot of bad writing and stupidity throughout. The journalists constantly do stupid things. There appears to be no shortage of food, water, gas or basic supplies anywhere even though its a warzone and nobody can get through. There is a soldier in combat with a bright red Hawaiian shirt on and another one with bright red glasses. Way to stand out and be a target. We are never told either why there is a civil war. What started it? What is the goal of the WF? Who is leading them? The entire alliance is only 2 states out of the entire country and the rest of the states just sit there? It's not even much of a war as far as I can tell. Mostly just a few people in the middle of nowhere having gunfights and skirmishes.
This is pure leftist propaganda at it's worst and wouldn't be surprised if it was funded by the DNC dirty money.
Created: 03-22-2025
