Eddington. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Ari Aster. With Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone. DCP courtesy A24. 148 min.
A great potential double bill with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Ari Aster’s Eddington is a convulsive, neurotic, bitterly satirical Western, set in 2020 at the tipping point of a nation riven by the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, centering on the sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) of a small New Mexico town who war over the soul of their community. If you were to draw a Venn diagram of family dysfunction, paranoia and fear, and the collapse of what keeps a democratic society from devolving into barbarism, there, at the rotten core, you would find Ari Aster’s brilliantly disturbing look at the way we live now. Aster has always cut to the quick—Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid should strike fear in anyone with an unhinged parent, lover, or neighbor—but here it’s America itself, the stuff of dreams and manifest destinies and democratic vistas, that has become a self-imploding nightmare of class, race, and gender warfare, of plagues and conspiracy theories and extremism on both sides of the political divide.
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