Post by nombrecomun on Oct 10, 2024 18:12:04 GMT
Watched this one last week and I was pleasantly surprised. I avoided it initially thinking it would trigger PTSD-like anxiety given America's socio-political state....and with the upcoming election.
I typically don't care much for Kirsten Dunst but I think she did a fantastic job here as an older battle-worn, grizzled photojournalist.
I appreciate that the movie doesn't tap straight on with the obvious red state/blue state issue by pairing Texas and California on the same side. It throws that dynamic of liberal vs far right out the window, sort of, and let's you wonder what the dividing issue was about to begin with. But it really doesn't matter. The movie focuses on the horror of war and what that would look like in our own country.
While the movie comes through the lens, no pun intended, of the journalists it doesn't deify them. In many ways they are really screwed up people themselves. Perhaps they were odd folks to begin with that would choose such a job to begin with and/or the job made them even more crazy/risk-seeking individuals.
The only flaw I could find was the inclusion of the young wanna be photojournalist. She becomes what we see in cheap horror movies as the dumb teenager that makes an oopsie and causes a whole bunch of terrible things to happen to the group. I think the movie would have been fine without her and concentrating even more on the older characters.
Thoughts?
I typically don't care much for Kirsten Dunst but I think she did a fantastic job here as an older battle-worn, grizzled photojournalist.
I appreciate that the movie doesn't tap straight on with the obvious red state/blue state issue by pairing Texas and California on the same side. It throws that dynamic of liberal vs far right out the window, sort of, and let's you wonder what the dividing issue was about to begin with. But it really doesn't matter. The movie focuses on the horror of war and what that would look like in our own country.
While the movie comes through the lens, no pun intended, of the journalists it doesn't deify them. In many ways they are really screwed up people themselves. Perhaps they were odd folks to begin with that would choose such a job to begin with and/or the job made them even more crazy/risk-seeking individuals.
The only flaw I could find was the inclusion of the young wanna be photojournalist. She becomes what we see in cheap horror movies as the dumb teenager that makes an oopsie and causes a whole bunch of terrible things to happen to the group. I think the movie would have been fine without her and concentrating even more on the older characters.
Thoughts?
I am so sorry...