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The first reactions from Alex Garland's controversial film 'Civil War' is here and some are calling it a "scary as hell cautionary tale." A24 and writer-director Garland's provocative action drama had its world premiere at South by Southwest. The film imagines a near-future dystopia where the US has been torn apart under the authoritarian rule of a three-term president played by Nick Offerman. The story follows a journalist played by Kirsten Dunst and her colleagues as they make their way across a hostile and divided states of America with the hope of interviewing the president.

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00:00The first reactions to Alex Garland's controversial film Civil War is here,

00:04and some are calling it a scary-as-hell cautionary tale.

00:08A24 and writer-director Garland's provocative action drama had its world premiere at South by Southwest.

00:14The film imagines a near-future dystopia where the U.S. has been torn apart under the authoritarian rule

00:19of a three-term president, played by Nick Offerman.

00:22The story follows a journalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, and her colleagues

00:26as they make their way across a hostile and divided states of America with the hope of interviewing the president.

00:31The film was revealed to be a tribute to war journalism that veers away from explaining the politics that led to its central conflict.

00:37The movie instead depicts the practicalities and horrors of a civil war in modern-day America,

00:42with many audiences calling it riveting and haunting.

00:45Fandango's Eric Davis wrote,

00:47Alex Garland's Civil War is unlike anything I've ever watched.

00:50It's a big, vicious, action-packed war picture from A24.

00:54Collider's Perry Nemiroff wrote,

00:56An epic but deeply intimate piece that uses the experience and motivations of a group of military-embedded journalists

01:02to highlight the deeply chilling reality of living in a world that never learns.

01:06Another social media user said,

01:08Civil war just ended and I feel a little shaky.

01:11It's a real assault on the senses.

01:13And others called it a masterpiece and a horrific tale, a journalism tale, an American tale, well told.

01:19Civil war has raised eyebrows for its timing, coming amid a contentious election year in which

01:24President Joe Biden has claimed democracy is at stake, given his opponent Donald Trump's

01:29history of attempts to subvert election laws.

01:31A 2022 poll by YouGov and The Economist found that 40% of Americans believe a new civil war

01:37is at least somewhat likely in the next 10 years.

01:40When asked about when he wrote the film, Garland said,

01:43it was four years ago, I wrote it back then and sent it to A24 and they just said,

01:47yep, all good, which was surprising.

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