Powerful movie

[GorillaG]

Every reporter now wants to be a damn pundit, no difference between "news" and editorials now. Try watching MSLSD or reading Yahoo news. It's like the DNC writes all their coverage. I have no problem with editorial opinions but I have a big problem with passing it off as "news".

 

[XYZ]

Unfortunately we no longer have local news.
Just failed drama students reading PowerPoint presentations. To make it worse over half of it isn’t local or is several days old.

 

[sherrick13]

The movie was a mastuabatory fantasy about assassinating Trump in the Oval Office.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

The movie was a mastuabatory fantasy about assassinating Trump in the Oval Office.

From the few policy breadcrumbs that slipped out I didn't think that was the case. I thought that the movie did a good job of neutrality of politics, but did a good job of the military being used against the people, and that the gov't was considered aloof and tyrannical. The only way a movie like this could even survive is to be as neutral as possible. I gave you a thumbs up for watching from another POV.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

The basic principle I got out of the movie is that the reporters are not any different than flies on the wall observing the foibles of human conflict - except they had cameras and took notes.

As for foreign intervention, none was portrayed in the movie. In a civil war such as might happen in our country, the job of the military would be to protect against any foreign intervention. We have a navy capable of keeping our coastlines clear, our northern border is shared with a staunch ally, and the southern border, though troublesome at times, could easily be kept relativity secure from other foreign interventionists transiting through Mexico with a naval blockade of the Central American coasts.

Besides, any invading force trying to take advantage of a civil war in this country would find itself fighting two armies and an existential armed populace like you see in no other country.

I did note one flaw in the movie: In the opening ruckus, when Jessy and Lee take refuge behind a police car from a bomb about to go off, the blast that was powerful enough to launch an officer over the top of the car certainly would have blasted enough force under the car to knock the two camera wielding crouched ladies off their feet. Physics plays no favorites except in the movies.

Woody

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

I watched it. I thought it was clever to not show which side may have been "right." Texas and California together? More obscurity to not show a side, but anecdotally I have heard Californians are more conservative away from LA, Sacramento and the other large and wealthier cities, so it may be "possible" that they would be on the same side. I think riots and other civil disobedience can occur given the current state of affairs, but there is no "leadership" on either side. No revolution, no civil war just a world of riots and rhetoric is the likely outcome in the next few years.

It could easily be labeled as such. It might hold true for the next few years. But after a long list of abuses have been perpetrated, no other recourse but a civil war seems viable to me.

Woody