r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/Forgotten_Shoes 1d ago

That movie is called Civil War, it's about a war photographer who wants to take the picture of the death of the authoritarian president.

I'm over simplifying it of course, but would recommend.

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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago

Yes, I am aware, I have watched the movie. I also recommend it.

Don't want to spoilt it too much, but the reason the whole thing starts is because the guy does a third term in office.

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u/Predator_ Florida 1d ago

"Usurps power and refuses to leave office. Declaring himself President / authoritarian for a 3rd-term."

FTFY

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u/omniverso 1d ago

I had to get a third of the way through the movie before I remotely understood the plot. It felt like a garbled mess.

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u/DressedSpring1 Canada 1d ago

I thought it was an effective device to present the fighting without context for the greater conflict. At the big scale it’s good guys against bad guys, fighting for a brighter future etc etc. at the very narrowed in scale the movie presents from its that war is ultimately just people killing each other. The “why” doesn’t really change the reality of the horrific violence. 

That’s what I got from it anyway. I thought it was incredible 

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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago

Yes, definitely. It doesn't position itself on any side of the spectrum. The reporters just want to interview the president before anyone else, and also document the conflict.

The movie only actually becomes clear what's happening when Jesse Plemons comes in, and then it's pretty clear what the president probably stands for.

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u/CircumventingTheBan_ 22h ago

They did a good job with clues earlier, too.

That refugee camp run by the UN they stop at? Watch again, it's all POC. The firefight between the rebels and those military guys in a building? The rebels are majority POC, but all of the regime soldiers are white.

There's an ethnic cleansing going on in the background basically the whole movie.

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u/RogueBromeliad 22h ago

Yes, I feel this movie would've been perfect, and 100% oscar nominee if the last scene wasn't so bad. Kristen's character death was literally the only thing that was bad in the film, that whole acting and scene was so obviously bad.

I know they wanted to make her death somehow noble, but it would've been even more realistic if it wasn't. And why would she just stand in front like that? It was so bad.

The other 99% of the movie is just so fucking good.

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u/CircumventingTheBan_ 22h ago

Dude, that sturgill Simpson song while the helicopters are flying over that river? Goosebumps.

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u/DressedSpring1 Canada 21h ago

Absolutely. We get so used to seeing movies like Blackhawk down with helicopters flying over foreign looking lands full of foreign people with rock music blasting, and it’s very much presented from a “get pumped up for this coming action sequence” kind of lense. Doing the same thing against a backdrop of familiar landscapes with less rah rah presentation was a fucking gut punch. 

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u/RogueBromeliad 1d ago

That's what war feels like, complete chaos, most people not knowing what's going on. But it's pretty simple.

There's a scene that they're driving through a road with a sniper killing people and there are soldiers trying to take out the sniper, and the guy asks "what's going on?"

And the soldier just responds "There's a Sniper killing people."

And since he's a reporter, he tries to expand: "But what side he's on? Why is he doing that?"

And the Soldier responds: "Does it matter? It's a fucking sniper killing people."

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u/EidolonLives 1d ago

The plot was perfectly clear. I think what you're thinking of is the setting. And yeah, it was a mess, because it was supposed to be a mess.

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u/TheSausagesIsRubbish 1d ago

Seems like that was the point. People killing each other over an unclear plot. 

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u/trojanguy California 1d ago

I watched it a few months ago going in completely blind and man, it was way more interesting and intense than I assumed.