America at war, now in theaters

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The new movie Civil War delivers a sensational story about political polarization spilling into mass violence. If that seems reckless, it’s what apocalyptic films have done forever. The LA Times’s Mark Olsen and Northeastern University’s Nathan Blake explain. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Lissa Soep, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One in five Americans according to recent polling from NPR, the PBS News Hour and Marist,
0:07.0	think that to get the US back on track, we may need to resort to violence.
0:11.0	Now, math nerds will deduce that's a minority of people but
0:14.4	it's enough to set us on edge in a tense election year. Into the data leaps
0:19.9	civil war. Alex Garland's beautifully shot and beautifully acted film about
0:24.4	journalists who almost never file navigating the war torn eastern seaboard
0:28.2	on their way to Washington, D.C. Is this movie spinning the polling out to its logical conclusion?
0:34.0	Is it tempting fate?
0:35.4	Garland has been coy.
0:37.2	Coming up on today explained, America at War in theaters now. And everything will settle down nicely. Unless we have another.
0:45.0	And everything will settle down nicely.
0:52.0	Unless we have another war and none of us have to worry because we'll all be blown to bits the first day
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