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The impression I got is that the horniest pro-war thing about "Civil War" was the trailer.

I can relate to Garland's non-American perspective and perhaps one of the things he was trying to convey was that there is no American exceptionalism, when everything crumbles, it is this muddled inexplicable mess everywhere. I thought his unbiased narrative and non-spoonfed story line was refreshing. To me, the film came across as very anti-war, not glamorizing the violence or providing bubblegum flow. Maybe the absurdities in plots (alliances, backstory) are intentional, because they're not the subject and don't really matter. The sound design and soundtrack also stood out, for me it was definitely a film to be seen in theaters.

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