Michael Knowles REACTS to Civil War Movie

Liberal Hollywood makes a

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with some of its top stars in an election year about a supposedly tyrannical presidential figure and the Civil War that follows. Here we go, we wake up. Hollywood again actually makes a pretty good

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. I'll give you my proper formal review, number based. on a scale of 20 for some reason because my producer, Mr. Davies, took Common Core Math or something. I'll give you the precise review first in a moment, though I'll tell you the story. I'll set the stage. There is a president who is in his third term, he attacked American citizens, there is an insurrection, two groups that are insurcard forces, the WF and then there is a group from Florida as well.

We start with some war journalists, Kristen Dunst and a guy whose name I can't remember, and they're taking photos. They end up at a hotel and hatch a plan that they are going to go to Washington DC to interview the president and take his photo. They are joined by their old mentor, played by Steven Henderson, who is a great actor, he was on the fence. of cutting his teeth doing August Wilson plays uh and a lot of Broadway a very, very good actor and a young woman who wants to be Kirston Dunst and she wants to be a photojournalist uh Kirsten Dunst is already in the middle of the battle helping her and You can see the beginning of a mentor type relationship, so initially it was going to be Kristen Dunst and that guy whose name I forgot and they were going to drive to DC, but then the old man and the young woman accompanied them and The beginning of the movie is not so much a political Harang or even It's not even about any particular topic, it's a road trip movie, it's not even a war movie, it's a road trip movie, which are some of my favorite types of movies and so they go, they take off and You immediately see episode after episode that this war is spreading across the country, but you don't really know who is who, so Kiron dun's character becomes famous for his coverage of the Antifa massacre, but what does the massacre mean? of Antifa, even for me?

Did Antifa massacre people? Was Antifa massacred? It's still totally confusing. Presumably the president is some kind of Trump figure because popular culture says Trump is tyrannical and blah blah blah, but that's not really the case. act like Trump and if he is a Trump guy then the insurrectionists are the good guys, they are portrayed as the bad guys, didn't the American right during the Obama administration portray Barack Obama as a tyrant? Who is who? I just don't know, there are two woke elements in the movie. The first is that almost all the bad guys are white and almost all the good guys are not white, but are racial minorities. or women, that guy Jesse plens, I think his name is, who now plays all the white villains, middle American characters in every show and movie.

He plays a really, really bad guy who's just executing

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ians and who almost kills the young journalist and huh. some other racial minority journalists who joined the fry that's something that woke up, you know, the white guy is bad, everyone else is good, the hardest working element of the film is not pro-democrat or anti-republican, The most woke element of the film is the pretense that journalists are objective from the beginning. Kisten Dunst is teaching this young photojournalist that to do their job they just need to go and take the photos when they stumble upon a couple of guys being tortured. by whites at a gas station, the young journalist feels an impulse to help the boys, the people who are being tortured and Kristen Dun says no, our job is not to help, our job, the job, is not to harm, our job It's not really getting involved in any way, we're just there to document that we are. totally neutral observers and that, of course, is what journalists think of themselves, but that's not how journalism really works, this is what we hear from liberals all the time, journalists, we are the fourth estate, we are under attack. conservative forces in America, but we are bravely speaking truth to power, but they never do, of course, and journalists never did.

I'm not saying there isn't a war correspondent who chooses some bravery, of course, there is, except journalism. Generally speaking, it doesn't exist just to tell the story in a neutral way, journalists are spokespersons and propagandists for the respective political sides, that's always what it has been in the history of the United States, that's why there are newspapers like the Tennessee Democrat, for example, and then after World War II, all the liberal journalists just pretended to be neutral even though they would have someone like Walter Kronite, you know, Mr. Objectivity, Walter Kronite was a world federalist, well, it was a great liberation and that is true for many of them, so that part I felt was awakening and liberating. but somewhat unintentionally, in a way that most people probably on both sides of the aisle would now accept how the movie ends.

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There's a bit of creativity here in that the White House press briefing room is right in the White House, which it isn't. True, it's actually a small separate building on the side, but the forces manage to get in there and they see the White House spokesperson, the press secretary, and she's trying to negotiate the release, the insurrection forces just shoot her, They shoot and kill her, and even here you are. you're wondering, okay, this is a pro-Republican thing or a Trump thing or this, but it's not very clear that the White House press secretary is a black woman in the liberal victim hierarchy, she's a very sympathetic character and she's being rejected and interrogated by another black woman and then there is a man and it is not very clear who these insurrectionists are, the good guy.

I thought the insurrectionists were the bad guys, but the president had a third term and was killing American citizens. and it's totally ambiguous which side it is that they come in and they find the president, they surround him and the journalist, the guy whose name I keep forgetting, finally says, stop, stop, don't shoot, stop and you're waiting here for the journalist. to say it's wrong to kill the president, this is wrong and he says before I shoot him I need to get a quote because I drove across the country and I need a quote and I need to get a picture and I quote it another big spoiler here he says Mr.

President, what? do you have an appointment? He says, don't let them shoot me, don't stop them from killing me, and says, "Okay, that'll shoot him," and he gets the photo of him while all this is happening. the increasingly aggressive young woman who wants to be the kist and dun character, she is being Boulder and Boulder and Boulder, she is taking photo after photo after photo and is in the line of fire of the president's forces. Kirsten dun sees this and jumps off her to expel her. the way nun Kirsten is shot and as she falls dying, the young photographer takes the photo of her and captures her death, which is a callback to a situation earlier in the film when the young woman asks Kristen Dunst if they would shoot me. photographs my death Kristen dun says what do you think, implying that the work is just about documenting you have to kill your feelings you have to kill your desires you were only there to observe and take that camera all other desires have to disappear window and then you receive this beautiful callback and the reversal of that at the end of the movie, that part doesn't really speak so highly of journalists, it necessarily plays into the mythology of journalism but also portrays journalists as psychopaths who were only about power. hungry, extremely ambitious and trying to get clicks, you know, trying to create the kind of content that will attract a lot of attention, they would say that maybe they are doing it for historical purposes to spread the truth, a more cynical viewer would say that you.

I know you're doing it just to get more eyes on your photos, that's a great question here. Journalists are supposed to be totally focused on the truth, the truth above all the things we see in the real world today, despite what they may. They say that journalists are increasingly mocking the idea of ​​Truth just this week, just as the movie comes out, we have the new CEO of NPR mocking the very notion of Truth and saying, "You know what, we don't want to be guided only by The truth, everyone has their own truths. You know, we want to be guided by something other than the truth, which, of course, is true In the real life of journalism, they kill the president and then it ends with photographs of. these insurrectionists standing around the dead of the president.

The body of the film in general is quite good so nobody is totally a hero Kiren Dunst is probably the closest to it Nobody is totally the villain of. no way. It's just a fun thriller. The acting is excellent. Steven Henderson who plays the old man is really an excellent character actor, everyone was quite good, even the young woman who is not as experienced as the others, she turns it into a good character. in a pretty good performance, it's all good, it's actually quite strange at that time when we're all complaining about how Hollywood is too woke and hitting us over the head with its politics, this movie which on the surface is extremely political, is a breath of fresh air because it's kind of a fun thriller, on the scale from boring to pure epic movie. do zero be boring 10 be epic I would give it a seven seven or eight maybe even eight You know how generous I feel today let's give it an eight let's give it a 7 and 1/2 7 and 1/2 am They allowed me to do halves I don't care it's my show I'll do I'll do halves then on the scale of woke up Trad zero be woke 10 be tra four is almost totally neutral he's too nice to journalists that's really the only problem and it's a little difficult for white people, but 4 and 1 /2 times 4 and 1/2, so what does that give me 4 and 1/2 + 7 and 1 half car, four of three, that's what happens with 12? 12 out of 20 is pretty good, now this stupid scale my producer Mr Davies came up with is really contradictory.

Any value of 10 or more is WI. It's actually a pretty good score. I would recommend it because it addresses a pressing anxiety in both of us. Sides of the aisle really feel that the country is falling apart and they are right that the country is actually falling apart and

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society is falling apart. This was a way to deal with it that doesn't exacerbate the problem if Hollywood came out with a civil war movie that was totally one-sided and said you know the Republicans are destroying the country. AP and Trump is a threat to democracy or whatever nonsense they always say would have been pretty bad no matter how good the movie was. but that's not what they did, they're tapping into a cultural anxiety by approaching it in a way that leaves much of the interpretation up to the audience and ultimately discouraging the Civil War.

There are some people who are really excited about the Civil War. I'm not a leftist or a rightist because if there was a civil war that would involve me, I don't know how to shoot my cousins ​​or something like that, right, I call myself a wallflower but that doesn't really interest me and Kirsten Dun has a line in the movie that says I covered these foreign wars and I thought the only activism that could come from it is just showing history, I would warn people not to do this here, but here we are. recurring theme that their relatives are just on the farm somewhere they just pretend this isn't happening they actually walk into a town they just pretend isn't occupied that the war that civil society hasn't unraveled there isa The store owner just says yes, I try to ignore it, I try not to watch the news too much and it's not very clear if this war report is doing anything.

I mean, they get to the end, there the mentors died trying to save them, uh, he, it ends. They shoot him and say he gave his life for nothing because they're taking all these pictures, but who looks at them? Most of the people we meet in the movie aren't even paying attention to the news, so that's how it is. Although it may seem strange that this is a silly summer thriller, it addresses these social issues very carefully. Sophistication, that's a good movie and then they cast the Parks guy and consider him to be President Nick Offerman, kind of a fun little cameo .

I know he wanted to. I went in expecting to hate her. It had all the ingredients to be absolutely. OD, what can I say? It was pretty good. You should probably go see it.