Eddington
one of the first films i think ive seen to really capture the tensions and collective losing of minds in 2020. I had an incredibly active crowd in the theater with me who was having a blast, despite that i can still predict how volatile discussion over this film is going to be, bcs when it tries to satire and dissect america it doesn’t omit the american left from fault. American liberal performative outrage is called out for what it is, phony, exclusive, and concerned with identity politics over actual change . I’m on the left in a red state, and when you talk to someone my age (young men who unfortunately lean so much to the right) these are the reasons they give to not be on the left, or to not vote blue; and yet guys like mamdami or sanders pull in so much youth support off their (more) left wing economic policies. Still though, if the film says that the left in America can be performative, than the right is paranoid and resistant and slipping mentally. scenes in this film that resemble real life events, scenes that without mentioning trump manage to feel his weight throughout. I think it’s incredibly notable that the film ends with an invalid leader who is providing to his wealthy ruling class the exact same thing they wanted, only changing up the language used to convince people for it.
Stylistically peak and beautiful. Hilarious from start to finish. Its funniest to me in how it treats right wing conspiracies about antifa (or an antifa esque group who’s flying around in a private jet, no doubt from Soros money) and five g whatever as fact. I’m excited to hear the tik toks about how they’re hinting at their evil game in front of us.
2020 was a behemoth of a year and we feel it every day still.