In Civil War, the latest movie from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, we see the horrors of conflict through camera lenses rather than crosshairs. Our way into the action is through seasoned photojournalist Lee (Kirsten Dunst), her Reuters colleague Joel (Narcos' Wagner Moura), and New York Times veteran Sammy (Dune's Stephen McKinley Henderson). There's also wannabe war photographer Jessie (Priscilla's Cailee Spaeny), who tags along for the ride to Washington DC to capture the last days of the President (Nick Offerman) before rebel forces take the White House.
According to Dunst, the movie's focus on the press rather than civilians or the armed forces is "really based on the way Alex grew up. His father was a cartoonist for a newspaper and he grew up with journalists around him, so I think that way in was the most natural way for Alex," she tells GamesRadar+. "I think it makes it more about humanity. Instead of having a gun, you have your camera. That's a very different way in and I think there's a beauty to that kind of work as well."
