Ari Aster's Eddington - THE Neo-Classical Western FOR this Decade #160
Episode Description
It's another Ari Aster movie discussion -- something we didn't think we would do after our "Beau Is Afraid" experience.
BUT -- "Eddington" is something different for Aster, even though it does (justifiably for some, not for others) devolve into something of a "Beau Is Afraid"-style paranoid nightmare. It's his brand of absurdly cruel personal neurosis funneled through the cruelly absurd America of the 2020s, giving this film's hellish descent into meaninglessness (more for some, less for others) potency than his other films.
Listen to the full, spoiler-filled episode to hear Amartya, Cris, Dhruv, and the Cinematic Liberties Podcast Guys -- Arjun & Ashwin -- discuss the merits and demerits of Aster's latest!
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TIME CODES
Introduction ("War 2 Trauma") : [00:00 - 02:39]
"Eddington" (Spoiler-Free): [02:39 - 39:25]
"Eddington" (Spoiler-Filled): [39:25 - 1:13:25]
"Eddington" & The Western Genre: [1:13:25 - 1:49:50]
Outro ("Hindsight is 2020"): [1:49:50 - 02:01:51]
REVIEWS REFERENCED
1. Eddington is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire [Justin Chang, New Yorker]
2. Eddington Captures the Chaos of the COVID Era -- and Modern Existence [Adam Nayman, The Ringer]
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