As for why I was listening to conservative talk radio (🤢) in the first place, that’s all the play at my job. I usually tune it out but can’t use earbuds for safety reasons and I’m not high enough on the totem pole to change the station. I won’t specifiy the exact program because I believe it’s regional.
I’ve been excited for Alex Garland’s Civil War for months now. A24’s been killing their drama films recently and it’s been refreshing having what I thought was an unapologetically left-leaning major media studio who’s found success through authentic, grassroots support. After hearing what felt like four ad reads for the movie in an hour and knowing that means A24 paid money - gave direct financial support - to a show that, amongst other things, spends hours a day promoting bigotry, Russian propaganda, and J6 apologetism, has ruined it for me.
Am I just overreacting here?
A couple of the early ads that I saw for the movie leaned pretty hard into “god save america” so I don’t really know what I think about A24 right now.
This movie looks to be ripe for using extreme propaganda like Starship Troopers, where the over the top jingoist rhetoric is part of the irony.
Based on the director and the one preview I saw, it is not going to be putting conservative gun nuts in a positive light.
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At first, I understood these to be satire. I also don’t know what to think of the movie or A24 now.