"Uprising of the States". That is wrong with a new movie about the Civil War in America

The screens were a picture where a bloody civil war is unfolding in alternative America. The most expensive blockbuster of the young American studio A24 (founded in 2012) - the movie "Rebellion" (CIVIL WAR) with a budget of $ 75 million was released. The studio loudly declared itself in 2022, when their movie "Everything always and at the same time" received 7 "Oscars", including "The Best Movie of the Year".

The British director and screenwriter Alex Garaland is not the first time turns to the genre of dystopia: "annihilation", "28 days later", "Judge Dreadd", "Hell". Scientific and fantastic thriller and dystopia are his favorite genres. The "uprising of the states" is from this row. The focus will tell how much dystopia has succeeded this time.

The feeling that the idea of ​​this movie was inspired by a director of a protest movement in the United States in the summer of 2020 after the murder of May 26, African American George Floyd while detention by police officer. In June-August 2020, there were 15 to 26 million Americans in protests. In 200 cities, a curfew was introduced and more than 30 states have been called for help from the National Guard to ensure law and order.

In some places, protests were accompanied by looting, pogroms and arson. There were 68 attacks on journalists. Similar conditions are shown by the authors of the "Uprising of the States", only the action takes place for 20 years in advance-in the 2040s. There begins an armed conflict during the reign of the president, who remained for the third time, ignoring the law.

The clashes of the people and the police develop into the Western Civil War (18 states) and government (in total, 50 states are known to be. The audience is not aware of the fact that the opposition of the opposing parties. According to the movie, heroes cannot be disassembled: what strength belongs to one or another armed soldier. Events are shown on behalf of the military correspondent of Lee (Kirsten Danst). In her team, the teammate is journalist Joel (Wagner Mooura).

These are the summer newspaper reporter Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson) and young photo journalist Jesse (Kayli Spany), for whom the heroine Kirsten is a idol. The goal is to interview the US president to his overthrow, as pro -government affairs are not important. Although information reports are constantly coming on TV that "those who seem to be legitimate power are waiting for a pardon. " The four need to get Washington, to which several hundred kilometers.

Road-muwi is built on the praise of a reporting and photojournalistic profession. Lee the main thing is to make a supercador. Conversations are often built around the competition of reporters with each other. The woman was in different hot spots of the planet, and now she regretted that her native America became such a "point".

The viewer's focus is built through the perception of the experienced profile, who saw every one, and the novice photo journalist: the latter can be devoted to the appearance of the killed. The film shows the inhabitants who are sitting on farms and "nothing to work", soldiers who have constant shootings, active citizens (who are brutally executed looters) and far-right fighters.

The main characters of the movie travel without weapons, in helmets and bulletproof vests in a car with the inscription "Press". Pros of the movie. He goes well in a topic on which he has recently shot "an anti -utopian thriller with Julia Roberts" Illusion of Security "(2023). Alex Garaland skillfully pushes the situation. The various surprises that arise from reporters on the way to the capital are well shown, and at the most unforeseen moment, as it is suitable for the genre.

On their difficult path, the pictures of well -groomed lawn are replaced by panorams with hundreds of empty destroyed cars, as if in a computer game. Images of heroes, despite their typicality, are not devoid of personality. In addition, the bright but episodic roles played the stars of the series here. The President, whom no one knows, was depicted by Nick of Ferman ("The Last of Us"), and the role of the far -right arbitrariness went to Jesse Plezhess ("To take the shore", "Fargo"). Minuses.

In the movie, the only one who has clear meaningfulness is reporters who seek sensations. At the same time, the overall hell with Bedlam is not too excited. Until the end of the film, they do not tell: what is the radical differences of Western forces and government? It's unclear. That is, reporters operate in the world of absurd ruthless violence, where some meaning remains only in the professionals from the media: to make a strong frame, to take a sensational interview.

And a soldier who tried to knock a sniper out of the house knew about the enemy only: "He shoots. " Perhaps the director wanted to show a terrible face of violence in general. But the fact is that thanks to this technique, most characters are perceived abstractly - as the characters of a computer game. As a soldier. As the US President. In addition to Lee and her student who seeks to get the frame - bloody and more dramatic - no one has a meaningful goal.

The picture, by the idea, should serve as a warning on the wrong actions of politicians and civilians so that such a horror never happens. But it is difficult for us to say: what are they miscalculated in? There is almost nothing known about them, as is the name of the President. And about the leader of the rebels - the conversation went. The tape was a soldier's mass attacking Washington. But even the lack of goal setting is not the main drawback of the movie.