Nick_Milligan
Wow. A lot to process and unpack. Eddington received rapturous applause and huge moments of laughter at Sydney Film Festival. Its chaotic, freewheeling and incredibly funny. Yes - it is Asters best film.
Aster has made an unhinged social satire on the culture wars - the division, virtue signalling and general disingenuousness. And he does so with sub-machine gun precision, much like the one that appears in the final act. Asters is a scattershot approach, rife with motif and self-aware savagery. No one is safe - right-wingers get both barrels, but the resulting shrapnel hits a lot of attention-seeking privileged white kids.
Ideologies fester in the microcosm of the small titular New Mexican town, the fever and sweats mirrored by the ...