Alex Garland Reveals the Most Disturbing Civil War Scene to Shoot

Summary:

• Alex Garland ’s box office giant Civil War isn’t losing its ground anytime soon due to the audience’s immense interest in the dystopian drama starring Kirsten Dunst.
• The plot follows a group of journalists who, on their way from New York to Washington D.C., get to see all the horrors of the ongoing war, but the movie’s most disturbing scene doesn’t have a single sign of the war itself.
• The film’s crew has recently revealed that filming the scene didn’t feel like having a rest day anyway due to its tension hidden by the overall tranquility.

Alex Garland’s brand new box office hit Civil War continues its successful theatrical run with more and more viewers attracted by everyone else’s raving reviews and the movie’s gut-wrenching plot.

A dystopian drama, Civil War offers a vast landscape of the post-apocalyptic United States engulfed by mass protests across the country, but the film’s most thrilling scene has no sign of the catastrophic war at all — quite literally.

Civil War initially follows a group of journalists led by Kirsten Dunst’s character who have to make their way safe and sound from New York to Washington D.C., the very heart of flaring rebellions.

During their trip the group makes a stop in a small American town where literally everybody consciously ignores the ongoing war and its repercussions. What’s the most terrifying here is that people there are pretty much aware of what their country is going through — they just opted for living their life as it was before all the events as if nothing ever happened.

The scene’s serenity is actually what must disturb everyone the most, even compared to real war-coded moments with all the big fight machines entering the screen.

The journalists’ quick visit to the small town may have let them forget about all the horrors surrounding them for at least a short period of time — and it can seem like the film’s crew also had a moment to take a breath, but not everyone really did.

In one of their recent interviews the movie’s team revealed how they really felt while filming this scene. Director Alex Garland admitted that, even though there were no tanks and helicopters, it was still “an oddly disturbing scene to shoot” adding that there was indeed something creepy underneath the moment’s pacification.

Cailee Spaeny, who got to portray one of the journalists, recalled that nobody had felt like having a rest day as “there was always so much tension going on” while Kirsten Dunst dived deeper into the whole scene stating that the movie had clearly shown what price those people were paying for having “so-called normalcy of living in that town”.

Source: Cinema Blend