Movie Mindset Bonus - Interview With Director Ari Aster
Added 2025-07-02 11:00:12 +0000 UTCWill & Hesse sit down with Ari Aster, director of Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, and the upcoming Eddington. They rap on evil movies, mixing stupid slapstick humor with pain & discomfort, creating a contemporary western out of the recent past, some of Ari’s favorite films & filmmakers, and of course…the all-consuming sense of impending doom & lurking doubt that surrounds us.
Check out Eddington, in theaters this summer on July 18th.
Comments
My interpretation was that the Antifa supersoldiers weren't just white supremacists doing a false flag, but that they were somehow hired by the data company to assassinate the would-be mayor who was now vocally opposed to it's construction. I think that interpretation makes the ending scene make a lot more sense. But one of the highlights of the film is how it reflects real life-- you can ask yourself who benefits from these cases of horrific violence and have a good theory of what happened. But you can never fully be sure. There is no closure or resolution, there's just *the next thing.*
Agent Grange
2025-10-01 00:20:35 +0000 UTCall love but lol at 30 mins Will misinterpreting the jet scene as “antifa supersoldiers” and Ari pushes back about that interpretation of the scene because if you pay attention to that shot you overhear a white supremicist tv show playing that uses the nword with a hard R. The guy doing the pushups is doing it military style and is styled like a special ops militant. The movie (as Ari hints now here) makes it clear these are white supremicist terrorists conducting a false flag operation to make it look like Antifa
Maurice
2025-08-27 04:09:10 +0000 UTCJust saw Eddington, two thumbs up! When I first saw the trailers for it I thought I would hate it, so if anyone else was in that boat I'd recommend giving the movie a chance
Timothy Buttons
2025-07-26 23:49:19 +0000 UTCJust saw EDDINGTON. Holy smokes go see it in a theater.
Johan Gambolputty
2025-07-22 15:43:04 +0000 UTC
