Writer and director Ari Aster has made the Covid lockdowns one of the focuses of his latest movie, Eddington, which was released this weekend as part of the 2025 movie schedule. It’s a movie that is meant to make the audience uncomfortable, and in that, it succeeds. As I watched, I just couldn't help but wonder if Aster, who is known for his horror movies, has taken on too much with this topic.
The late winter and spring of 2020 were an especially hard time for everyone, and in the movie, while Aster deftly walks the political line that divided many in the U.S., it brings up a lot of uncomfortable memories for many. That’s not to mention the second political topic of the movie, the death of George Floyd and the massive protests that followed it in May and June. Eddington has a message, but are we ready to hear it? I don’t think so.
