Civil War

Civil War (film) was disappointing. If there was one message: emotional coldness, associated with war-trauma, serves journalists by instigating a deep and unavoidable objectivity. This is one of many metalogical films to have emerged in recent years. The film attempts to provide us momentary pauses from the chaos — spaces of meaning, through the photograph. We watch journalists who are themselves watching the trauma unfold. Through their photography, something is extracted from the field of the Other — images, crystallizing the timelessness of war.