Controversy Surrounding Release of Film on American Democracy Collapse

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As a film about the collapse of American democracy is released in an election year, concerns arise about its potential impact on political polarisation. Writer-director Alex Garland acknowledges the incitement question but highlights the dangers of silencing as a counter-position.

dropped, people immediately began asking if it was such a great idea to release a film about the collapse of American democracy in an election year. With increasing political polarisation, andPerhaps surprisingly, Alex Garland, writer-director of the movie that stars Kirsten Dunst, doesn’t dismiss that concern out of hand.

Garland on the set of his film, in which heavily armed factions battle for control of the not-so-united States.That might sound like he’s making the case for the right to free speech, regardless of its impacts, and that might seem to put him on the side of the right. But that’s not where he, or his film, actually sits.

Garland’s story focuses on the efforts of four journalists to capture the truth of the conflict. Wagner Moura plays journalist Joel, and Stephen McKinley Henderson is the veteran New York Times writer Sammy.is a very modern edge-of-the-seat immersion in the hell, and the fog, of war. But it is old-fashioned in another way: the journalists are its heroes.

These days, he says, fascism seems to be a more abstract concept to people, particularly in the Western democracies. And that is a danger.“When they see it at all, they see it as something either historically or geographically distant. And that allows for fascism creeping into their own behaviour, even though they would not ever consider themselves to be fascists. It’s an evolutionary process that can be quieter and more insidious than people realise.

 

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