I like the “grizzled and world-weary” version of Kirsten Dunst.
We never find out what caused the war, or why the states split the way that they did, but that’s not the part of the story this movie is telling. We’re not here for the war; we’re here to explore the creation of journalists. There’s some obvious foreshadowing- at one point I thought “here come the lovable-yet-easily-disposable characters that one of the main characters need to die so they can have an emotional breakthrough” – but it wasn’t so egregious that it broke the movie.
Tomorrow: Another day, another Dunst movie featuring photojournalism!