A review of Total War, a found-footage film by Jubal Brown at Vtape in Toronto, Canada. The piece combines flashy action films, canned-laughter television shows, and teenagers in their suburban bedrooms lip-synching to their Web cams. Composed of clips from YouTube, this work is not really concerned with show-and-awe, gut-wrenching war, but rather the everyday muck of the mundane. Some showy parts do pop like firecrackers, but the film mostly has a stream-of-consciousness style that evokes James Joyce.