Apple TV’s newest original, The Gorge, directed by Scott Derrickson, is a financial success, and audiences across the world made this film the service’s biggest premiere yet. With the beloved Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller playing blooming lovers in a dystopic science-fiction tale, how could this film fail?
The brutal churn of state-sanctioned violence beyond America’s borders inevitably takes its toll on the people who make up the armed forces. The original Top Gun can be read as comrades coping with intense, dangerous pressure through fierce competition, though it would require overlooking how it is chiefly a (albeit very fun!) piece of American military jingoism. However, even it acknowledges that service is not without sacrifice and that some will inevitably be put in harm’s way for the sake of protecting a nation’s interests.
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