Flicking #62: Civil War (2024)

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The most terrifying dystopias are within touching distance of now. And so it is with Alex Garland's Civil War, in which he uses imagined journalists chasing a story in an imagined civil war in an imagined future America to explore topics that resonate very loudly in the real world today. It’s a bleak, brutal and occasionally beautiful watch. But is it an important one? What’s its point? How good is Kirsten Dunst?!? And is two times too many times to see it? Hannah, Yosra and Mick discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a film they liked.
0:38.4	One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or be murdered,
0:43.6	which, to be totally honest, has complicated matters a bit.
0:49.0	Welcome to Flicking. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.
0:55.0	Hello and welcome to this month's flicking. And by this month, I mean, May.
1:00.7	How is it May already? The end of May. I was convinced it was June. That's how end of May it is.
1:05.6	I am Likianning, your confused host and I am joined by Yosra Osman. Yossi, hello.
1:12.4	Hello. Do you know what month it is at all times?
1:15.5	Never. Good. You can stay. And also
1:19.8	that there, Hannah Dunleady. Hannah, hello.
1:22.7	Having a fucking clue. Oh, I wasn't even going to ask you. I just knew I was in good
1:26.7	company there.
1:28.1	This morning already I have sent a message that was meant for you to my friend as a 50th
1:34.1	birthday message. And he said it was quite a fitting 50th birthday message because he didn't
1:39.0	understand it. And it just shows how much the brain rock sets in after 50.
1:44.7	Well, let's make the most of the few brain cells we've got left.
1:48.2	Hannah, it was your turn to pick a film from 2024 for us to watch and give our opinions on.
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