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‘We know why it might happen’: Alex Garland’s explosive thriller Civil War premieres
Apocalyptic ‘cautionary tale’ imagining violent conflict in US and released in tumultuous election year premieres at SXSW
The film imagines what America would look like in the midst of full-scale civil war with broken supply lines, abandoned highways and a national military cleaved into opposing factions. In this imagining, for example, Texas and California are allies in the “Western Front” encroaching on Washington, where the three-term president, played by Nick Offerman, still has nominal control over some military and the eastern US. It follows four combat journalists, played by Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny and Stephen McKinley Henderson, as they travel from New York to the war’s frontline in Charlottesville, Virginia, across contested territory.
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