This spring's film event is called Civil War and even modest users of the English language will grasp its meaning. If a certain Francis Ford Coppola had not pre-empted the title in 1979, Alex Garland, the British director of this blockbuster hardly dystopian, could just as easily have named it Apocalypse Now. For more than two hours, adopting the narrative form of a road moviethe film follows four journalists of varying ages and experience trying to reach Washington by road from New York.
A journey full of dangers as the country descends into chaos and the unleashing of base instincts thanks to large-scale internal clashes between the federal power and a coalition of secessionist states. Not in a century, not in thirty years, not even ten, but now. Finally tomorrow. Perhaps after the presidential election on November 5, presented by some observers as one of all dangers due to the radicalization of the political adversaries in the running as well as part of their electorate.
Broadcast on his Truth Social network, a campaign video of candidate Donald Trump was described by Joe Biden's team as ” bullshit you post when you call for bloodshed “. What do we see there, justifying such a vehement accusation? The image of a tied-up Joe Biden, painted on the back of a pickup truck emblazoned with “Trump 2024” and speeding down a Long Island road. Michael Tyler, the presidential candidate's campaign spokesperson, didn't like the joke and in turn took out the weapons of mass destruction: ” It's like when you say toProud Boys to stand back and be ready… »
Familiar to many Americans, this comparison is an allusion to the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the last presidential campaign, in September 2020. Asked about his links with the far-right group the Proud Boys, the former president had evaded the question with this ambiguous formula: “ Proud Boys, stand back, stand ready. » Formula immediately interpreted as an encouragement to prepare for inevitable deadlines that are not very peaceful. A civil war, for example.
