Based on the trailer, many people—me included—assumed Alex Garland’s new film Civil War would go full Rachel Maddow and project liberals’ direst fears about Donald Trump’s second term onto the silver screen. Something like: Jan. 6, Part II: When Deplorables Attack. That might be preferable to what Garland has cooked up instead—a visually gripping but strangely weightless antiwar allegory. Civil War seemingly aims to scare Americans straight by showing them that their intense partisanship and extremism—or that of their compatriots—will lead to death squads and mass graves in the suburbs and bloody tank battles in the streets of Washington.
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