A brief piece to start off your week, reflecting on Civil War (2024) and the curious range of audience expectations placed on this film, leading to many viewers' disappointment over its hand-wringing about the complexity of war journalism.
What did we expect this film to do, in the middle of rising authoritarian threats? And did misguided expectations of resistance art detract from the lesson it instead advances?
#BetterWorldsTheory #CoSoFilm #Activism #War
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-kind-of-resistance-art-do-we
@MLClark interesting take of “self-congratulatory” for Don’t Look Up & Glass Onion. I smell what you’re cooking & on reflection perhaps they’re both representative of our times; superficial hashtag/bumpersticker style activism of mere representational alignment. I saw “look” being “we’ve met the enemy and he is us” cynicism than self-congratulating.
Glass Onion’s pastiche would’ve been spoiled by messaging heavier than the mostly one dimensional characters could deliver; they were the commentary
(And thanks for
a. reading; and
b. offering counterpoints!
Always love that, and you do the latter so darned well.)
@MLClark 👍☺️thought provoking provokes thoughts.