Eddington (Ari Aster, July 18, 2025) • Page 10

I think it'll age well. If things get better in 30 years, it'll be seen as a unique window into a very chaotic time in history and it'll be fascinating. If things get worse, it'll be seen as the tipping point and it'll be frightening. Either way, what it says about 2020 will always be accurate for anyone who cares about history.

 

Saw it today and I liked it but this is pretty much what I feel. Like elements of it are clearly satire but idk what the message of the film overall is. Maybe that’s on me for assuming a movie set early in the pandemic would have one. Ari Aster sure knows how to paint a bleak picture, though

 

Messages to me were tech always wins, phones are weapons, and COVID is when we cut the final strands holding together whatever shared sense of reality we had left at that point.

 

Eh, I don't think COVID will be the last global pandemic we'll see in our life time. I'm sure we'll show kids and grandkids this and be like wow, that's how you handled it back then?

 

Might have to cop the campaign shirt.

Eddington – A24 Shop

 

Yeah, that's good lol. I should but it for the QAnon guy at work. Gonna tell him to watch this and see what happens.

 

I am too online because I'm burnt out on the culture war bullshit and this made me very tired. Did like the movie though.

 

insane or maybe perfectly appropriate for this to happen to the one slightly moral character in the film jfc

 

It is implied he groomed Sarah

 

Joaquin Phoenix is like the new Michael Douglas. He’s always playing these weird dudes who feel as if society owes them something it doesn’t.

 

Anyway, I’m very mixed on this. I hated the first act, then it gets interesting in the second, but the final act falls apart. I get what it’s trying to say by the end. Society gets caught up in the squabble of politics and ultimately forget the real villains (corporations, tech companies poisoning our minds, and the grifters who scrape up whatever profit is left), but I am not sure the film does the work to really make that point feel earned by the end.

 

I was way more intrigued by the teen plot lines in the beginning. The movie was on to something interesting there with how Covid and isolation impacted relationships and politics of today’s youth, but it’s too focused on Phoenix’s personal vendetta against Pedro Pascal to really do those themes any justice.

 

man, austin butler was lightning in a bottle for what they had him do here

 

It was handwriting about Joe’s mayoral campaign, and he didn’t really have a reason to think that the deputies were helping with the campaign

 

These analyses that focus on the use of the SolidGoldMagikarp are really great

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/s/fI0dgcQTuy

Eddington Explained | The SolidGoldMagikarp Of It All - Film Colossus

 

ari is on blank check this week for their miller’s crossing episode