World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington
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Exclusive: Ari Aster digs deep into his COVID Western Eddington and how it represents a modern world where everyone is online. "It's not that we disagree on any number of issues. It’s that we don’t agree about what those issues even are.
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is gesturing to a room where, conjuring a bit of movie magic, he made Joaquin Phoenix fall through a roof, onto the bones of Geronimo.
In the A24 horror auteur's Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down town.