It’s hard not to see writer and director Alex Garland’s Civil War (2024) as a warning to Americans, “think before you vote in 2024”.
Men (2022)
Alex Garland’s Men (2022) has a distinctly “video nasty” vibe about it. It’s a film with some interesting ideas, that aren’t fully realised, and just land flat.
28 Days Later (2002)
There are so many startling things about this movie, not least that it was all shot on tape, with a domestic video camera. The only thing that bothers me is the final act. The whole army salvation thing feels like a poor choice. While I understand the basic idea of men with no hope descending into batshit crazy. I’ve never been convinced by the idea that trained soldiers would become that ill-disciplined. Trained soldiers respect the chain of command, and follow orders. It feels wrong. Following the orders of a crazy captain, that might’ve worked, but not the ill-discipline.
Annihilation (2018)
I know I’ve seen this film before. I watched it last year but much of what I saw this time felt new. It puts me in mind of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker (1979). This is less, a musing on our insignificance, more of an invasion story, but it shares something of Stalker’s pace, and a little of its melancholia. Much better than I first remember it.
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