Blaming the storm on the barometer.
Apt analogy
Ripped it from some French director that was accused of lowering the pepoles morale which supposedly led to france being conquered.
Ah yes, because Alex Garland never makes films that provide a cautionary examination and instead is a complete advocate for bringing those dystopian settings to real life. /s
The problem is conspiracy theorists seem to have issues with separating fiction from reality. Alex Jones cites loads of films as evidence for the things he’s “so right” about. And it does seem to be echoed by his audience. It’s whack, I tell you.
I’m hoping it’s more like a much needed vaccine for the American zeitgeist. Get people discussing what another civil war would actually look like and hopefully get us to realize the need for civil debates.
I watched the trailer and Jesse Plemens delivery of “Yeah, but what type of Americans” sent shivers down my spine.
you can’t have civil debates when one side isn’t willing and are nazi terrorists. they’re gonna start a civil war any day now, if historians don’t put the start behind our current date, and trying to debate them civilly is letting them win. they’re a dying ideology lashing out at a society that’s in the process of rejecting them and we need to act accordingly or lots of people will die
That’s the part that’s been sticking with me as well.
That, and a creeping dread that 30% percent of the audience is going to view this film as either a masturbatory fantasy or an instructional video, but I imagine that’s probably Garland’s point.
A large portion of people on one side are looking to bring about a world ending apocalypse so they can be raptured. American evangelicals don’t care about the world, and are ideologically incapable of civil debate and compromise. When your side is god and the other side is the devil you can’t possibly meet in the middle.
I’m so glad they cast him in this
He’s such a great actor. He plays the stoic psychopath really well. I couldn’t remember his name, so I googled “Walmart Matt Damon” and he came right up.
Like a foreshadowing?
Got echos of that old Northern Ireland ‘joke’ where the gunman asks “yes, but are you a protestant atheist or a catholic atheist”.
Chilling.
Says the conspiracy theorists that have been calling for civil war for who knows how long.
They’ve only done that because they’ve been programmed to do so by media!
I’m not American but I think the whole media, and politicians in your country have been preparing all of you for civil war during the past decade.
Literally 100% projection at this point.
Am I the only one disapointed this isnt about a bunch of characters from A24 movies fighting each other?
You’re gonna be a great broccoli one day.
Everything Everywhere All At Once vs. Dicks: The Musical.
Republicans can all fuck off and die.
These are the guys who have been auto-fellating over a second civil war for the past 15 years, and they’re worried about it now??
You’ve only known about it for the last 15 years
The LARPer has become the LARPee.
There’s literally a whole right-wing movement who picked their name because it rhymes with “Civil War Two.”
But sure, calling attention to the very thing the right has been very loudly advocating for since at least 2008 is “predictive programming.”
Lmao. It’s a meme. Not a “movement”. Those out of the know he is referring to “civil war 2, electric boogaloo”
Memes and jokes have been used to disguise cultural movements, not just once, but always.
“Just joking” about wanting to kill you, before actually killing you, is not a new idea. There were always people who thought it was “just a joke”, then the killing started.
If you are using those jokes and memes, you are helping those movements.
Yep! The_donald was one big meme fest in the beginning.
There’s a whole political science research on it.
Starts as a joke. Some who don’t get the joke join and get so loud, they push the jokesters away. Continues to grow and spiral.
Other examples: Earth is flat.
I’m waiting for birds aren’t real to be replaced with actual looneytunes that believe 100% in it.
I’ve been in this so called right wing movement. It’s a bunch of larpers memeing.
Most comments I saw just pointed out that it would be a good day in hell before California and Texas would be working together. Although one person pointed out the possibility of water source issues that both could certainly agree on.
As a Canadian …
Holy shite!
I am desperately hoping this movie wakes people up, cause otherwise … well, you know.
The same way don’t look up made us take the climate catastrophe seriously lol?
Aside from Alex Garland reading who’s in this movie has me pretty hyped for it, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman (as POTUS), Jesse Plemons, I’ll definitely give it a watch.
Who cares what conspiracy theorist think?
because they do terrorist attacks based on their delusions
I care that people listen to them.
That’s what they want you to who!!!
Not unreasonable
