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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 29, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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Did we ever have any threads discussing Alex Garland’s film Civil War? If not I think it’s worth a post in the main culture war thread.

I absolutely loved it. IMO, the main culture war angle was that left-leaning critics desperately wanted it to be anti-Trump but the narrative is stubbornly a-political (or rather, the narrative and the characters treat politics as a meaningless game they indulge in for the sake of adrenaline rushes).

I think it’s pretty ironic that both MovieBob and Critical Drinker gave it pretty much the same negative review which boiled down to “this film doesn’t specifically support my politics!”

Please make one. There's some kind of meta point in there about capitalist exploitation of the culture war and enshittification, how we get the crap fakakta version before the raw version, and the decline of cinema as a form generally.

I haven't seen it. I have seen a bunch of clips from it. I have thoughts, and I'm curious how accurate they are.