Eddington
Pedro Pascal should be in everything Exhibit #1436
dir: Ari Aster
2025
I did not like this film at all, at fucking all.
It’s bad enough to be made to remember the horrible pandemic days, and the stupidity that abounded. But to do something so, so lazy with it seems almost negligent, almost actionable.
I know how insane those days were. Those of us who lived through it, as opposed to the millions who died from it that we seem to have completely forgotten about, remember a time of fear, of confusion, of longing both for connection and for isolation, and from that ferment sprung lots of crazy ideas and crazier behaviours.
This flick ultimately says the same thing zombie flicks say, disaster flicks say, war movies say – it doesn’t matter what the external threat is, the real threat is the stupidity and viciousness of regular people. People have their petty insecurities, their compulsions, their fetishes, and from this springs awful actions when opportunities arise.
I am pretty sure Ari Aster, infamous for Hereditary and Midsommar, less so for Beau is Afraid (of his Mother), thought he was making some provocative when he made this. He thought he was really going to deliver us some hot zeitgeist-y satire calculated to offend both the easily offended and types more settled in their beliefs and prejudices. This flick is about as provocative as vaping, as shocking as mocking vegetarians, as fierce as saying the kids of today have too many tattoos and piercings.
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