The film’s director and screenwriter, Alex Garland, won’t tell us what led to the carnage.
Some want to prevent a civil war, Democrats want to provoke it
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The rapidity with which society can disintegrate has long fascinated Garland, the 53-year-old British-born filmmaker who emerged with the screenplay to the zombie apocalypse thriller “28 Days Later.” Western democracies, he says, can lean too much on their sense of exceptionalism.
Movie 'Civil War' might be year's most explosive. Alex Garland thinks it's just reporting
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