Eddington Movie Night (Premium E299)
Added 2025-07-26 08:50:24 +0000 UTCNot our usual dreck — this week we cover a movie with some pedigree. Ari Aster is considered one of the American auteurs of this generation. But what happens when he tries to make a movie about small town pilledness during early covid lockdowns? Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal no less? We ruthlessly investigate Eddington (2025).
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Comments
Ignoring any notions of authorial intent, I think the best reading of the Antifa super soldiers aspect of the plot is laid out here, a nod to American Years of Lead, Strategy of Tension type stuff: https://parapowermapper.substack.com/p/eddington-conspiracy-cork-board-an
Bombs Over Rome
2025-08-19 19:41:51 +0000 UTCI think people are being generous to Aster saying the “antifa super soldiers” were “obviously” hired by the data Center. I think there could have been more time dedicated to at least leading to that. And of course I don’t mean it needs to be explicit, but to me it felt like putting a jigsaw piece in the right place but not having any of the surrounding pieces. But even if I let that go and say sure - the data centre. The synopsis of the movie implies “pitting neighbour against neighbours”. It would have been interesting to explore the community more, but actually the final third is committed to just random faceless people from out of town?
John Osborne
2025-08-17 09:44:18 +0000 UTCThe main thing that bothered me was the portrayal of BLM felt so broadly dismissive, while at the same time the movie was very sympathetic to most of the other issues. BLM in the movie is exclusively dumb white kids who want to get laid yelling at real POC (who are police, which I don't really want to try and decipher what the meaning there is). Portraying BLM in 2020 as like equal to anti-masking in terms of ideological clarity is pretty troubling to start with but I truly felt Aster gives MORE nuance and understanding to the anti-mask stuff than the protests. It feels worse when they go as far as to directly mention George Floyd by name, I just don't feel like it was in good taste to invoke the real, serious context of the movement so directly when you're going to then not show the responding protests as anything but silly and disingenuous
Jackson
2025-08-12 09:01:48 +0000 UTCHard to hear this criticism of this movie when I feel like it was the best crack at conspiracism in america we have ever had in a work of fiction. When I left the theater I was really impressed. There was no mention of the data center hiring the “antifa super soldiers”
MifsudZ
2025-08-10 19:50:42 +0000 UTCHard disagree but I love this podcast more than any podcast and all the hosts equally okay so pls Julian be not sad and mad. Makes me sad. Also the super soldiers were tech hires it was canon but. Anyway Liv Agar.
Sarah Pritchett
2025-08-05 20:40:28 +0000 UTC
