Abstract
Alex Garland’s 2024 film Civil War exemplifies how film can be considered a modern mythology, using a war movie to tell the story of the hero’s journey with a mother archetype as the hero. Through an audience’s shared morals and values, an impartial point-of-view, symbolism, the Jungian mother archetype, transformational imagery, ethical dilemmas and collective fears, the film functions in the way mythology does while leaving viewers questions for their own lives.
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Etzel, Dennis Jr
(2024)
"Civil War,"
Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 28:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.28.02.10
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol28/iss2/10
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28