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Kirsten Dunst’s ‘Civil War’ Is a ‘Dystopian Vision of the Future’

Alex Garland shares a ‘deeply absorbing dystopian vision of the future’ in his new movie, ‘Civil War,’ starring Kirsten Dunst

(L – R) Cailee Spaeny, Kirsten DunstCourtesy of A24Securing the sit-down will require traveling more than 800 miles via a beat-up white press van through active war zones and hostile territories guarded by merciless and heavily armed forces. Each encounter with a stranger carries a whiff of doom: Filling up the tank with gas at a desolate station requires delicate dealmaking with its wary owners; a sunny twentysomething girl working behind the counter at an empty clothing boutique seems untrustworthy. Because of the film’s narrow narrative scope and its single-focused characters, audiences must just digest the visual consequences of this civil war: Empty highways, residential lawlessness, an abandoned shopping center, cities literally under fire and a final cunning image that sears the soul.

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