Thank you Alex Garland (I mean Ray Mendoza) for scaring me shitless again. Leaving the theatre with PTSD.????

I feel like this film was made without the *intent* of expressing any message / ideology other than honouring their memories of that event. Not saying it fully succeeded in doing that - truthfully it’s impossible to do so. Everyone brings their own view of the world into what they make. Also felt like Alex Garland has been evading making any point on politics since Civil War, which this “irresponsibility” and nihilism made a lot of Americans & people actually living in the US anxious and agitated. That I totally get.

but I truly believe that realism has its merits, while I understand that ideology is more easily masked and subtly embedded in realist style of filmmaking (and thus, harder to detect). I understand that it has already been and should be critically analysed. but I think this film has every right to be made, to be told in this form, and to be viewed by spectators (in IMAX preferably lol). It’s just that the realese had the worse possible timing…