Real Citizen Journalist Already Did This Movie
The new movie “Civil War” actually does a fairly good job of telling the life story of my ex-research partner, Jenny Moore, a woman whom I called Task Force, without the weapons, of course. The real Jenny Moore, the woman that I call Task Force, was involved in many dangerous activities as the Kirsten Dunst character is in ‘Civil War”.
In my opinion, Kirsten Dunst’s character covers only the investigative journalist aspect of the Task Force’s life. Being a hero in a lot of dangerous situations is much easier to portray in front of the camera rather than in real life.
(Pardon the typo on such an essential verb as “gives”)
Like the heroine in “Civil War,” played by Kirsten Dunst, Jenny Moore traveled a long way to Washington, DC, after a life of near-death situations as a female cop. Jenny Moore, like the Kirsten Dunst character, also died in the line of duty while trying to get the truth out to the American people. Of course, Jenny Moore, Task Force, didn’t need to have a fleet of Black Hawk Helicopters and Humvees to protect her like Kirsten Dunst had in the movie.
And even more strikingly, Jenny Moore, in her role as a Police Officer and rape victim counselor, was a protector of young women, which is a key subplot to the movie of “Civil War” and the Kirsten Dunst journalist character. Perhaps the characterization of the Kirsten Dunst character that hit closest to home was how her character was a mentor to male colleagues and journalists, such as myself.
Dunst even captured Jenny Moore’s “I know I am going to die doing this” fatalism in her wistful, contemplative recording of injustices. Multiple times during the film, I felt like Dunst had studied the life and even expressions of Journalist Jenny Moore in the story.
But real-life risking journalism is a lot harder to do with no army of helicopters and Humvees in front of you with a posse of machine gun-toting soldiers all around you as Dunst had in the movie. It is a lot easier to play-act than to live out the real thing with only a phone in your hand.
Toward the end of her police career, Task Force trained drug-sniffing dogs from the time they were puppies.
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