Eddington (EU-FINLANDIA, 2025) is a hilarious satire, violent and unpredictable in equal parts, with which Ari Aster (Midsommar, 2019), writer and director of the film that premieres this August 14, demonstrates its ability to appropriate Western conventions and bring its history to unsuspected extremes.
Located in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, with the background of the Pandemia by COVID-19 and its apocalyptic channel due Part of the mayor in re -election campaign Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal).
And although Joe, without ever saying openly, seems to wield the republican flag with its radical denialism to fulfill the health measures and its patriot love of the American sense of justice adapted to its peculiar way of seeing the world, and Ted seems the progressive Democrat who seeks the development of his community, the contradictions feed both to the point of not knowing what their affinities are actually. And the viciousness shown by TED to continue with the public humiliation of his rival of a life makes everything unblock towards lack of control and chaos in a fighting and fighting struggle and vendettas whose fatality increases to violently deranged points.
Ari Aster develops its history by way of a western that passes from one theme to another as the footage progresses: there is room for loving disappointment but above all for the exploration of the various facets of human eyelets in times of social networks, use of the issues of juncture and unfair competition where metaphorical and literal wounds make their way to the tip of excessive violence.
New York filmmaker Ari Aster, known by films such as The devil’s legacy (2018), Midsummer (2019) y Beau is afraid (2023) declared the New York Times that his story was an answer to his appreciation of Pandemia by COVID-19. “I wanted to make a movie about how I felt in that country. That was the goal: to take distance and show how it feels to live in a world where nobody agrees on what happens. We live in an era of hyperindividualism, and during the last 20 years we have been in this direction.”
Why see Eddington
THE CHAMBER
Ari Aster worked with the Iranian cinephotograph Darius Khondji, whose filmography includes Seven (Fincher, 1995), Delicatessen (Jeux-Caro, 1991), Bardo (Iñárrite, 2022), Amor (Haneke, 2012), Mickey 17 (Joon Ho, 2025), among many more films. The rhythm, chamber movements and its color palette create a suffocating atmosphere that accompanies the constant transformations of Joe’s character.
The cast
Not only includes a monumental Joaquin Phoenix carrying the weight of the film and going from tranquility, ingenuity and goodness to excessive violence and an unbalanced and coldly calculated acting but always retaining the mannerisms and voice of his character, but also to a Pedro Pascal wearing his most cynical side, Emma Stone in the role of the role of the wife of the Sheriff Victimization that her husband and mother are unable to understand and that make her see how the crazy of the town abandoned by the mayor in times, an Austin Butler in a very brief Guru appearance, to Luke Grimes making an inept racist police, to a hilarious deirdre o’connell as the metiche and controlling mother who finally receives a reward. consequence of its race to prove that there is no such Live Black Matters that it is worth when it is guilty (underlined with the appropriate indignation manifestations instigated by the least interest in fighting for social rights).
The themes
The confinement by pandemia is the pretext to discuss individualism, isolation, lynching in networks, the use of situation for their own benefit, of the dirty games in politics, of the abuse of power, of the use of the public office for other purposes, of the double face and the double morals, of the nepotism, of the sexual abuse silence of the small towns except when to take advantage of their resources is and, of course, of the Trump era.
Controversial
No one will be indifferent to Eddington. And is that Ari Aster is a filmmaker whose cinema likes as a disagree. The film has been praised by its structure and its escalation towards increasingly dechicing aspects. And he has been criticized precisely for moving from one issue to another in apparent lack of control.
*Javier Pérez He reports, chronicle and interview, as well as film critic and coverage of cultural issues. Directs Hole. Nobody wants to accompany him to the cinema: he does not stop eating popcorn or talking about anything else.
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