《美国内战》——一部踩在舆论热点上的平庸之作

可以说，现在的好莱坞电影的可看性越来越低了，充斥着各种政治正确的说教和不停的炒冷饭，出续集。似乎连美国人自己都不是很买账了。不过今年暑期美国出来一部爆款的电影，据说在美国大热，片名非常的震撼——《美国内战》。也许这个题材让美国人有切身的感受吧。现实中，比如2020年大选年，先有安提法、黑命贵全国打砸抢，后有川普支持者大闹国会山。如今，拜登政府执政这样的街头运动似乎确实少了很多。安提法之类的也消停了。让人不得不怀疑这些组织背后确实有政治势力在运作。

但是同时也有像今年年初因为联邦政府的移民政策问题导致德克萨斯州动用国民警卫队和联邦执法人员对峙的事件，使得这部影片的背景还是有那么几分真实感的。当影片在美国上映的时候，还为国内没有同步引进，感到有些惋惜。不过很快也有消息说，国内已经引进了，会在下个月左右上映。不过似乎美方不愿意让中国的影院和电影公司赚这个钱，在前天就在流媒体上映了这部影片。而网上也第一时间出现了高清的下载资源，于是就下载下来看了。

说实话有些挺失望的。这确实就如网上所说的只是一部小成本的影片。不过这个小成本也有几千万美元呢！而且就是一部公路片。故事的主线，就是一对老中青组合的摄影记者从纽约出发，想抢在由加州和德克萨斯州组成的西部联军占领华盛顿之前采访，导致这场内战的元凶——美国总统。

影片中并没有多少大家希望看到的大场面的战争戏，很多时候让人有些昏昏欲睡，而且整个故事的背景也非常的模糊。到底是什么原因导致的内战并没有明确交代，只是通过人物的对话，透露了只言片语，什么总统破坏宪法开启了第三任期，下令轰炸自己的国民之类的很含糊的表述。当然你可以说是导演偷懒，也可以说他是神来之笔，让你去自己去脑补各种各样的社会矛盾和政治矛盾，导致几乎每个人都可以找出一堆理由，

当然我觉得这样做还是弊大于利的。如果一个故事连一个好的背景设定都懒得去设置，很难想象这会是一个什么好故事。像乔治·马丁的《冰与火之歌》之所以受到追捧，也就是因为它即便是一个架空的魔幻世界，所有设定也都是巨细无遗的。而且这样一来，虽然说是给观众留下了思考的空间，但同时也让影片缺少反思和思想深度。整个的看下来，除了表示战争中的残酷和人们的冷漠，人与人之间本应该是互助合作的关系。因为不知道的原因变成了你死我活。影片中老一辈人为年轻人各种保护，各种舍身挡墙，用一种非常刻意的方式表达传承的情节，似乎在说美国自由精神不灭。非常主旋律，非常老套说教。

总之，这是一部非常平庸的电影，这是踩在了舆论热点之上而已。

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It can be said that Hollywood movies are becoming less and less watchable nowadays, full of all kinds of politically correct lectures and constant reinvention and sequel. Not even Americans seem to be buying it. However, this summer in the United States out of an explosive film, said to be hot in the United States, the title is very shocking - "American Civil War". Perhaps this is a subject that Americans feel very personally. In reality, for example, in the 2020 election year, there will be Antifa and Black Lives nationwide smashing and looting, and then Trump supporters will make a big noise on Capitol Hill. There does seem to be a lot less of that street movement today under a Biden administration. And Antifa and all that has stopped. One has to doubt that there are indeed political forces at work behind these organizations.

But there are also events like the standoff between the National Guard and federal law enforcement officers in Texas earlier this year over the federal government's immigration policies, which makes the background of the film feel somewhat realistic. When the film was released in the United States, I felt some regret for not introducing it in China at the same time. But soon there was also news that the domestic has been introduced, will be released in the next month or so. However, it seems that the United States is not willing to let Chinese theaters and film companies make this money, and the day before yesterday, the film was released on streaming media. And the Internet also appeared the first time HD download resources, so downloaded down to see.

A little disappointed, to be honest. It's a small budget film, as the Internet says. But this small cost is tens of millions of dollars! And it's a road movie. The story follows a pair of photojournalists, young and old, who set out from New York to get an interview with the president of the United States, the man responsible for the Civil War, before the allied forces of California and Texas occupy Washington.

There's not a lot of the big battle scenes you'd expect to see, it's a bit sleepy at times, and the whole story is very vague. It is not clear what caused the civil war, but through the dialogue of the characters, a few words are revealed, and the president broke the constitution to start a third term, and ordered the bombing of his own people. Of course, you can say that the director is lazy, or you can say that he is a genius, so that you can imagine all kinds of social and political contradictions, resulting in almost everyone can find a bunch of reasons,

Of course, I think it will do more harm than good. If a story doesn't even bother to set a good setting, it's hard to imagine what a good story it would be. Like George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" is sought after because it is even an aerial fantasy world, all the Settings are detailed. In this way, although it is said that it leaves room for the audience to think, it also makes the film lack of reflection and ideological depth. Looking at the whole, in addition to showing the cruelty of war and people's indifference, the relationship between people should be mutual assistance and cooperation. For reasons I don't know, it's been a life-and-death situation. In the film, the older generation protects the young people in various ways, and sacrifices themselves for the walls, expressing the plot of inheritance in a very deliberate way, which seems to say that the American spirit of freedom is not extinguished. Very thematic, very cliched.

In short, this is a very mediocre film, which is just stepping on the hot topic of public opinion.