{"id":95004,"date":"2024-02-20T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2039271"},"modified":"2024-02-20T18:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:40:14","slug":"new-civil-war-trailer-reveals-no-new-clues-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/20\/new-civil-war-trailer-reveals-no-new-clues-but\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Civil War\u2019 Trailer Reveals No New Clues, But \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit where credit is due.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve now seen two trailers for director Alex Garland’s “Civil War”<\/a> and still don’t know much about the movie.<\/p>\n

The setting is both clear and unsettling. America is at war with itself, and not a Cold War or one waged on social media.<\/p>\n

Guns. Bullets. Tanks. Bloodshed.<\/p>\n

The just-released second trailer serves up more of the same.<\/p>\n

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Kirsten Dunst stars as a journalist caught up in the maelstrom, while “Parks & Recreation” alum Nick Offerman plays a rattled U.S. president.<\/p>\n

The film’s marketing team is keeping everything else off screen, ginning up massive curiosity in the process. It’s reminiscent of the “Barbie” campaign<\/a> last year that focused on beauty, beautiful people and every shade of pink.<\/p>\n

We didn’t know the story in play until we settled into our seats.<\/p>\n

Except Garland just shared something critical about “Civil War” with Empire Magazine. It might be the worst thing possible about the dystopian thriller.<\/p>\n

It’s a tribute to, wait for it, journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJournalists are vilified, often, by all sorts of different people. By politicians, by the public. It\u2019s not necessarily a side of a political spectrum,\u201d the director explains. \u201cAnd the truth is that if you want a government with checks and balances, you need journalists. In the inferences within the film, one of them is an inference about journalists, and about how important they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

He’s right. Cultures need journalists to speak truth to power, to hold politicians accountable when they behave badly. That applies to more than just the political sphere, of course.<\/p>\n

Think the military, academia, Hollywood and Big Pharma.<\/p>\n

And, on all counts, Garland’s timing couldn’t be worse.<\/p>\n

The public’s trust in mainstream media outlets<\/a> continues to crater and for very good reasons. The modern journalist is more often than not cartoonishly biased if not corrupt. They ignore critical stories and make others up from whole cloth.<\/p>\n