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‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Explosive, Satirical Neo-Western Takes A Big Swing At MAGA Culture – Cannes Film Festival
‘Eddington’ review: Ari Aster’s explosively satirical neo-Western takes a big swing at MAGA culture – Cannes Film Festival
Dressed up as a neo-noir western, this pandemic saga drips with the kind of biting, dark political humor hardly much seen since the heyday of screenwriter and novelist Terry Southern, author of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. But the rebellion is real, and it starts to dawn on Joe that the regular tools of small-town politicking are woefully inadequate in this strange new world, where news spreads more like a malignant virus than wildfire. But more explosive is its approach to American politics; from Bitcoin to Pizzagate, Tiktok to vaccine denial, Eddington takes aim at all the quirks and absurdities of President Trump’s administration and how its compliant MAGA zealots have radicalized whole generations of a country once known for its compassion.
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