Alex Garland's film 'Civil War' offers an unflinching look at combat at the photojournalists covering it, but it has some missteps.
eschews the typical trappings of a combat action movie by turning the lens not toward the soldiers but to the photographers capturing them. And while it excels in some aspects of its portrayal, it falters when it comes to the big stuff.“Rarely have I seen a movie that made me so acutely uncomfortable or watched an actor’s face that, like Dunst’s, expressed a nation’s soul-sickness so vividly that it felt like an X-ray,” a review fromis gripping and beautifully shot.
Safe practices specifically seem to elude the characters. Much of this falls on cub reporter Jessie, played by Cailee Spaeny. Her inexperience leads her to frequent missteps that endanger her or others. And while it’s somewhat understandable that she’s still learning the ropes, Jessie knows enough about photography to go on about lauded photojournalist Lee Miller, making it less reasonable that she would fail to understand basic safety protocols.
“The audience is clearly meant to see this as a heroic act, even though it is the one time a journalist breaks the ethics of neutrality,” Drake adds. Later, when one of the group members dies, we see Lee take the photograph but later delete it when looking back.
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