I don't really intend to watch this film, but I have a central question about it: is it really possible to make a fiction about a political event like such a civil war without engaging in some kind of politics? You and some other viewers of this film that I've read and heard seem to think it's somehow praiseworthy for the movie to not get implicated in an overt political viewpoint, yet all at the same time criticise it for being shallow and unengaging.
To me it seems inevitable that it would be so, since if you subtract the politics from a film like this you're left with the tremedously banal take that "violence is bad". This is fairly widely known.
I would respect the film if it took either a left- or right- wing stance, or even a coherent centrist one if such a thing is possible. I just think the apolitical "plague on both your houses" point of view is so overused anyway, it's essentially the media's default setting. It's boring in itself as such a bland nothing cop-out, and so clearly inappropriate for such subject matter.
I don't really intend to watch this film, but I have a central question about it: is it really possible to make a fiction about a political event like such a civil war without engaging in some kind of politics? You and some other viewers of this film that I've read and heard seem to think it's somehow praiseworthy for the movie to not get implicated in an overt political viewpoint, yet all at the same time criticise it for being shallow and unengaging.
To me it seems inevitable that it would be so, since if you subtract the politics from a film like this you're left with the tremedously banal take that "violence is bad". This is fairly widely known.
I would respect the film if it took either a left- or right- wing stance, or even a coherent centrist one if such a thing is possible. I just think the apolitical "plague on both your houses" point of view is so overused anyway, it's essentially the media's default setting. It's boring in itself as such a bland nothing cop-out, and so clearly inappropriate for such subject matter.