Civil War Is Unlike Anything We've Experienced in a Long Time, Plus An Interview with Alex Garland
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On the April 12, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Bill Bria to talk about Alex Garland’s latest film, Civil War.
In Our Feature Presentation: Civil War Review: Alex Garland's Terrifying War Movie Will Leave You Shaken [SXSW 2024]
- General thoughts
- Spoilers: Biggest/best moments
- What is this movie about?
- Garland can be kind of a prickly interview subject. I interviewed him several years ago for Annihilation and he was somewhat intimidating, but I think Jacob had a really good conversation with him and there are some really good observations and anecdotes in it that I’ll be thinking about for a while.
- Alex Garland interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Friday April 12th |
| 0:03.4 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about |
| 0:06.5 | Alex Garland's latest film Civil War and also we're going to share an interview |
| 0:10.7 | with Alex Garland himself. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film staff writer Bill Bria. |
| 0:18.0 | Greetings Earthlings. Welcome back Bill. I thought it would be fun to talk to you about this new movie from Alex Garland. |
| 0:26.0 | I think we can if we can set it up this way I'd like to do like a little bit of a spoiler free sort of broad conversation in the very beginning and then we can get |
| 0:34.6 | into some spoiler stuff and then we'll share an interview that Jacob did with Alex Garland |
| 0:38.8 | in the back half of this show. |
| 0:41.0 | So I guess let's kick things off just general thoughts sort of broad big picture |
| 0:45.0 | takeaways. What did you think about this movie Bill? Yeah I think Civil War |
| 0:49.8 | is easily one of the most visceral movies to come down the line in a long time in terms of |
| 0:56.5 | the in totality as an experience in the cinema. |
| 1:00.9 | It is something that I didn't necessarily think could still happen in the sense that I as a big horror fan as a big movie fan in general as kind of a sicko myself. I didn't think I could be as shaken by a movie as I was by this one |
| 1:17.6 | But I was and and it's it's again because I'm a sicko it thrilled me instead of put me off but it's something where I didn't realize |
| 1:28.1 | until maybe 24 hours after seeing it that I was having still such a kind of an unconscious or |
| 1:35.8 | subconscious physical reaction to being in that however long the film is two hour |
| 1:42.2 | experience. |
| 1:43.0 | And I know that our colleague Ryan Scott has mentioned in a piece he just wrote recently about the way that the sound mix works in this movie the gunfire itself is just a line |
| 1:56.4 | to give you the audience member the most and realistic is is maybe not the |
| 2:01.2 | right word it's it's it's it's hyper real it's that feeling of like you're in the |
| 2:05.0 | middle of these you know battles these skirmishes as as the characters are |
| 2:09.8 | protagonists who are her journalists are and at no point is it intending to be let's say a |
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