Aimee Walleston (IG) (X) I watched the trailer for the upcoming film by Alex Garland titled Civil War when it came out in mid-December (the film will be in theaters in April). Curious about the reception of this trailer, I viewed and read many, many reactions to it, most of which popped up within a few days of the trailer’s release. I believed that doing this would give me a lay of the land relative to – if nothing else – what this trailer made people think about in this time period. The reactions to this trailer revealed to me that many people have largely become either unwilling or unable to engage in good faith with fiction, with film and its accompanying images, and also with ideas that sit outside their own beliefs relative to truth and reality. This disability appeared to have no political bias – I watched and read reactions from people all over the political map – nor was it related to the reviewer’s age or experience in reacting to movie trailers (meaning that people and publications with large followings and readerships and also people with only a handful of followers – including reddit posters – all exhibited, with rare exception, this kind of thinking when analyzing this trailer).
Aimee Walleston: War Lore
Aimee Walleston: War Lore
Aimee Walleston: War Lore
Aimee Walleston (IG) (X) I watched the trailer for the upcoming film by Alex Garland titled Civil War when it came out in mid-December (the film will be in theaters in April). Curious about the reception of this trailer, I viewed and read many, many reactions to it, most of which popped up within a few days of the trailer’s release. I believed that doing this would give me a lay of the land relative to – if nothing else – what this trailer made people think about in this time period. The reactions to this trailer revealed to me that many people have largely become either unwilling or unable to engage in good faith with fiction, with film and its accompanying images, and also with ideas that sit outside their own beliefs relative to truth and reality. This disability appeared to have no political bias – I watched and read reactions from people all over the political map – nor was it related to the reviewer’s age or experience in reacting to movie trailers (meaning that people and publications with large followings and readerships and also people with only a handful of followers – including reddit posters – all exhibited, with rare exception, this kind of thinking when analyzing this trailer).