[Satire] ‘Eddington’: Ari Aster Dissects America’s Disease with a Kamikaze Satire
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Eddington’s first poster may be the best we’ve seen this year. In black and white, it shows bison falling into the void by a rocky slope. The mythological air animal that reigned in the remote plains of the West, also symbol of everything that disappeared with the genocide of Native Americans, rushes into the abyss without remedy. In Eddington there are no bison, but the image reflects with rare precision the drift from the United States. And in…
Eddigton's review, Ari Aster's film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler and Deirdre O'Connell.
'Eddington'Director: Ari AsterInterpreters: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin ButlerYear: 2025Birth: September 12, 2025The misinformation, paranoia, widespread hatred and stupidity that currently govern us were not created by the Covid-19, but the pandemic offered those scourges a golden opportunity to flourish. Based on that argument, Ari Aster's new film declares the United States toxic territory, and that diagnosis should not …
There are at least two reasons why today it is very difficult to make a satire about the coronavirus. Satire needs, as a matter of principle, a lucid distance from the subject on which it is intended to satirize. A distance with which to avoid those traps of understanding that would have presented the issue when it materialized. With the coronavirus it is not so much that little time has passed (already a lustro!) as we are still immersed in the…
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