The small town.


Are the people in the small town being protected by the guards on the roof or are they prisoners? My thought when I first saw it was that they are prisoners, but I've thought about it and am thinking maybe they were being protected from enemies. Nobody seemed to have any problem with the SUV carrying strangers coming into town, so it must not have been very threatening.

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This is one of those movies where the director/writer really wants to tell a story different than the background setting they use, so the narrative logic of the "civil war" often doesn't really make sense.

Probably the small town is trying to keep life as normal as possible, including doing whatever commerce they can considering the chaotic economics that you'd expect in a civil war. The rooftop guards are there to keep a lid on troublemakers.

As for the SUV coming into town, it was marked "Press", so maybe it resulted in the rooftop guards being a little bit subdued in their posture. Plus one vehicle with two women and an old guy really isn't much of a threat if you've got a half-dozen guys with assault rifles on rooftops.

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