Villeneuve films Narwal’s past as if her pain is raw: no detail is spared from the blinding sun’s glare, or the glow of burning flesh. ‘Incendies’, French for ‘scorched’, becomes a motif of reignited family ties and inextinguishable trauma.
Browsing: Civil War
While impossible to avoid projecting contemporary polarisation and the upcoming election, the film’s greatest strength is the hyper-realistic depiction of America at war and the nature of modern total war itself.
The war in Syria encompasses two different conflicts: one on the ground, and one for control of the narrative
Oliver Moore does not endorse the flimsy and outdated notion of civil war used by recent Marvel blockbusters, and instead supports the Collier–Hoeffler Model used by most academics in this field.
