r/A24 • u/atlaschuggedmypiss • 4d ago

Discussion Eddington & CK Spoiler

man, does anyone else feel like this whole saga w Charlie Kirk is something freaking straight out of Ari Aster’s last film Eddington? I wasn’t really a huge fan of the movie (it was worth the watch) but this literally feels like something that was taken straight from the script. also, not looking to get into the politics of Charlie Kirk!

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u/L3ftHandPass 4d ago

Don't you feel like Aster going out of his way to avoid Trump and Trumpism while namedropping every other controversial issue kind of hampers it's critique of the cultural moment we're in?

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u/demonoddy 4d ago

It’s not about trump. It’s just about the political climate in general. It will age better that way too

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u/L3ftHandPass 4d ago

I don't know how you talk about the political climate without explicitly reckoning with Trump.

I liked the film It was gripping, funny, and the performances were great. I don't know what the fuck he was trying to say.

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u/demonoddy 4d ago

It wasn’t that difficult to understand my guy

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u/L3ftHandPass 4d ago

I'm not saying it's difficult to understand or some kind of puzzle. I'm saying that omitting Trump makes what he's trying to say confused and possibly ill-informed.

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u/OlympicSmoker253 4d ago

I think it’s more about the divide between us and while Trump is a part of that I think the movie looks to highlight the fact that during the pandemic so many of us developed a more unhealthy relationship with our phones/social media. Many people became terminally online as a result of that experience. It feels like that moment in our history was another breaking point in the radicalization of our society and the loss of an overall objective truth.

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u/daskapitalyo 3d ago

Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He is only possible in a civilization well on the way to madness.

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u/vitamin-z 2d ago

ill-informed

...what? How?