On The Complicated Power of War Photography - Part 2

A continuation of my examination of Alex Garland's messily provocative Civil War.

This is part two, of the essay, and contains spoilers for Civil War. Read part one here.

Garland’s attempt at neutrality in the movie is, and can only be, an illusion. Not only because the same conditions of interpretation that Sontag raises about war photography apply here but also because it is not possible to make an truly unbiased image of a specula…