ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE / 2024-05-25

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, THROUGH A HIPSTER’S LENS

by Anatoly IVANOV

CINEMA / JOURNALISM / PHOTOGRAPHY / REVIEWS

“Civil War” is a must-watch, especially for the fellow Americans. Even the normal ones. Not exclusively the A24 investment finance type of Americans with seed money from Guggenheim Partners, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan and SunTrust.

I wish my dad would have given me a Nikon FE2 with a Nikkor 24 mm f2.8 back when I started as a pro photographer in 1997. Plus the Jobo-like on-the-road hipster B&W kit in the 2020s+.

“Yes, but what kind of Americans?” — “Rich and supportive, sitting it out on a farm, Americans.”

I got a broken-shutter Zenit E from my grandpa to start with. And only because he was dead.

Anyway. It’s not like we haven’t warned you. I mean, we, the filmmakers. With Terminator, Contagion, Don’t Look Up, Severance, Succession, and now Civil War.

So far, like in this film, you don’t care much about each other, and even yourself. You kill a lot of people and make pretty pictures.

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