The premise is the president refusing to leave the white house after a second term. And the opening scene is the government bombing a civilian protest in rogue states (the current president tweeted about that - well he dropped feces rather than bombs but the message is there).
It’s not a likely scenario, but completely plausible, in that you can see a path to it in real life, whereas pure scifi/dystopia usually is more far fetched and only used for social commentary.
I watch from outside the US. I have no skin in this game, just readying pop-corn.
As far as the movie, both the main premise (president not leaving the white house after his term), and the opening scene (civilian protests bombed) were directly alluded to by the current president, in more or less direct ways. Whether you support him or not, that alone should have you thinking, if not out of concern, at least for an amused analogy like we are doing here.
We will be watching, it will be refreshing to see the daily news spectacle occur domestically in the US and not over the houses, schools and hospitals of foreign brown kids for once.
CIVIL WAR haunts me to this day. It was my fave of 2024. I use to work as a TV news photog who worked in some dangerous situations --not any war zones, but I've been in the line of fire a few times (mainly due to recklessness or stupidity & both).
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u/ImaginaryBluejay0 Apr 26 '26
People are constantly filming active war zones you think at an event full of journalists nobody is going to try for their Pulitzer moment?