Ari Aster puts out not only his most relatable movie of his filmography so far, but also the best movie of the year (so far)

Whether you sit on the left or right side of the political pendulum, this movie has something every person can relate to.

Aster gets hate because A24 is known as the hipster company, but he massively improved from Beau is Afraid with this one.

Thoughts, /tv/?

haven't seen it

ari aster is a kike faggot who makes shit propaganda. Simple as.

>>212900566 (OP)
i loved it but I get why it's gonna filter people

>>212900566 (OP)
>The deepstate funds Antifa terrorists to incite riots and murder people opposed to their agenda
Based Aster

>>212900566 (OP)
>Ari Aster
>Pedro
No thanks.

>>212900614
>Propaganda
It's literally the most centrist fence-sitter film you'll ever see about recent current events
>>212900704
Ironically, you'd love what he does to Pedro's character

>>212900804
It's a red herring for the real 'rona lockdowns, so yes it is propaganda

>>212900566 (OP)
I just see the appeal of revisiting this period in history yet. Maybe in a few more years, but I saw the trailer Thursday and was disgusted--I'm tired of the political arguments about that time.

>>212901090
>Hasn't seen the movie
>The script in their head is the exact opposite of the real movie

Classic /tv/

>>212900804
I'd love to not see Pedro at all. If any shills reading this message could pass this message along to their employers I'd be grateful.

>>212901090
That is the point imo. Mining anxiety from a period of time most people don't want to revisit.
>Well then it's going to flop
Yes it definitely will. I don't know who's greenlighting shit like Beau is Afraid and Eddington but they're magnitudes more kino than his horror flicks.

>>212901515
i was scrolling angryjoeshows retarded comment section and all anyone could say was "waaaah pedro pascal" so you're in good company

>>212901017
I'm sorry what exactly do you think a red herring is

This movie is going to be seen as too soon, because as one reviewer wrote, we’re STILL IN the COVID era in many ways.
Remember just a couple years ago we had left wingers openly celebrating and laughing when an anti-vaccine person died.

Why did Michael zoom in on Phoenix at the end when recording? It seems like it was done out of spite in a way, but from his perspective, he was set up by the government's glowies or antifa. We know it was Phoenix who set him up, but he shouldn't know that.

I did think it was funny that the MIL sold out to big tech after all that conspiracy shit.

I am pretty sure it was the Emma's dad that raped her.

>>212903558
>left wingers openly celebrating and laughing when an anti-vaccine person died.
You know what? He fucking deserved it.

Aster is saying he wants to make an Eddington sequel now. I have no idea where that would even go.

>>212905055
>I am pretty sure it was the Emma's dad that raped her.
Yeah, that's partly why their home's shrine to their dad make her anxious.
>Why did Michael zoom in on Phoenix at the end when recording? It seems like it was done out of spite in a way, but from his perspective, he was set up by the government's glowies or antifa. We know it was Phoenix who set him up, but he shouldn't know that.
This is part of the common complaint that this film was a bit all over the place despite A24 fanboys trying to justify this as Aster attempting to replicate the feeling of anxiety of not knowing what was going on during that time period.
A24 isn't too happy with this and Aster's last film. They're even getting feedback at this point because they're realizing that Aster was just a flash in the pan who didn't deserve to get the "blank check" treatment. A24 suits are frustrated that Aster is making these films for himself instead making films for the general audience or critics.

>>212905617
I think he mentioned it wouldn't be so much of a sequel, but a new story that features some returning characters. I doubt it will ever get made, he was just kind of throwing out different ideas he had in his head for his next project

>>212900566 (OP)
>kike
>faggot
>pedo
Yeah i just don't care bro.

>>212907257
Oh yea if you're a kike faggot pedo you might not be the target audience for this one :/

>>212900566 (OP)
COVID from China. That’s what I wanted to say.

>>212900566 (OP)
Hands down the funniest movie I've seen in years

Film is about a regular conservative guy who finally gets the nerve to take control of his life and everyone around him just destroys him and makes him suffer for their own selfish interests

>>212906763
>A24 isn't too happy with this and Aster's last film.
People were talking about A24 being mad at Aster for Beau, but then gave him 30 mil for this anyway
>A24 suits are frustrated that Aster is making these films for himself instead making films for the general audience or critics.
Those are the films I actually want to see, so I hope they keep giving those blank checks, even if Eddington has its issues.

>>212900566 (OP)
I can't go until this upcoming week but I am excited, normally a covid movie would be a turn off but it's been long enough and this is obviously going to be weird enough to work

>>212907237
Sequel should be about Austin Butler's character bringing down the pedophile ring

I just got back from the theater and this shit is hard to pin down. I really like the weird parapolitical 'strategy of tension' element. Pretty cool.

Ari Aster is one the good ones along with other depraved jew directors like Todd Solondz

It is honestly hard for me to place him in the realm of political metaphor. I dont think he represents anyone that I can identify on the right.

He is a selfish charcter to be sure, but I was rooting for him. Complete paralysis is a fate worse than death, and I don't think it was deserved, even if he deserved to lose.

>>212908496
I meant to include Joe's name in the first sentence, lol.

Brian is a completely hollow person, yet I related to his desire to have community.

Why was Pascal's kid texting makeout pics to Brian despite knowing he liked the girl?

Did Brian forward the picture to Michael hoping Michael would kill Pascal's kid?

>>212908496
Becoming a paraplegic, seeing your wife impregnated by another man, and having to sleep next to your mother in law who fucks your abusive in-home nurse has to be one of the most vile joke played on a protagonist

I did Phoenix's speech to his MIL before the shootout.
>We are at the center of history

>>212908610
Pascals kid was an asshole and I think he wanted Michael to harm him in the very least. The question I have is was Michael seeing her when she wasn’t 18?

>>212903558
>we had left wingers openly celebrating and laughing when an anti-vaccine person died.
Based

I did like Phoenix's speech to his MIL before the shootout.
>We are now at the center of history

>>212908496
>Rooting for him
he literally kills people for no reason

>>212908695
>The question I have is was Michael seeing her when she wasn’t 18?
He says he wasn't, she says otherwise. Seems to somewhat tie into the themes of child abuse; even the photo of Pascal and his kid looks really creepy

>>212908757
Everyone he killed he had a reason for killing?

>>212900566 (OP)
>Whether you sit on the left or right side of the political pendulum, this movie has something every person can relate to.
I'm tired of that. Every movie either appeals to the left or "appeals to both sides." If it doesn't pander to me and me only then I'm not watching it.

>>212900566 (OP)
>Pedo Rascal
Nope

>>212908793
What was the reason he killed Ted, his son, and the homeless man other than GRRR they were mean to me and ruined my run for mayor?

>>212900684
No matter what his PLOTTING claims/attributes (a la Alex Garland), the double standard that is calling randoms beneath them as "conspiracy theorists", while they own plots can claim anything with "creative license" to avoid being labeled "BlueAnon" or some shit. How dumb can "both sides" be to CIA's mind games?

Ari Aster cannot make a good film.

>>212908382
Since he based the character on some older 70s preacher, the pedo ring should be McMartin preschool or Franklin chid pedo ring to make more sense. Time machine portal found in the town. Aster clearly needs genre formula to attract an audience, he's not sharp enough otherwise.

>>212909000
He was fed up with the homeless guy. And he probably got COVID from him too.

>>212909315
Yeah, doing something insane like that would be great if played straight

>>212909340
So it's okay to shoot antivaxxers and anti-maskers if they give us covid?

>>212909000
Homeless guy was the cause of all his problems relating to the town being torn apart by the activists, which was further spurred on by Pascal's son, who also happened to be mouthing off to him about his wife, and Pascal himself refusing to abide by the rules he expects of others like Joe to abide by

>>212908496
Reminder that anyone who thinks this way is mentally fucked
>rooting for the guy who kills innocent people because they upset him
This is what braindead manbabies actually support
>doesn't deserve what happened to him
Despite trying to frame an innocent person who didn't get involved in any of the political BS
He clearly brought it upon himself
At some point you have to take responsiblity for your actions
People don't just get to do w/e the fuck they want because you like them or "root" for them

>>212909402
He doesn’t even know if he got COVID from the homeless guy. He never read the email. He just hated the homeless guy and was done with his shit.

>>212909514
OK? That doesn't mean you can murder people you fucking psycho...

>>212909719
I didn't say they were moral reasons, I'm saying he had reasons to justify his actions in his mind, also his wife leaving him likely made him snap on some level

>>212909548
I actually said Joe deserved to lose. I just think complete paralysis is too far for anyone really.

I am just rooting for him because he is the protagonist.

I think him framing Michael and his treatment towards his wife was the moral event horizon for the character more than who he murdered though.

>>212900566 (OP)
I have never and will never watch any movie with that spic Pedro Pascal in it like I will never watch anything with Zedanya in it.
And there's nothing you can do to make me rabbi.

>>212900566 (OP)
That cover looks like a 4Chan joke.

>>212900614
>>212907257

>ari aster genocides trillions of goys by starring making film
>gets away with it 100%, never suffers any consequences
>live to a tender old age and passes peacefully in bed surrounded by wealth and power like Kissinger and co.
>meanwhile, thousands of palestinians die screaming daily
where is allah?

>>212908386
>2 things came to mind when watching this film.
>one big one is Operation Gladio
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
>The other is the Vernon "cult" thing. The wife was clearly abused as a child, note the phallic noses on so many of the dolls she makes. Were we suppose to just take Vernon as a cook cult leader praying on isolated people with mental issues ? Or were we suppose to believe him ?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

>>212908386
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
>Vernon and the "cult"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

>>212909936
nobody gives a shit retard

>>212909916
Guess it depends if you think he deserved a quick death like his 3 victims
>3

But if you're thinking about it from what he deserves
>murders people
>Tries to take away someone else's freedom to benefit himself (framing that guy)
Sounds like he got exactly what he deserved,
>had his life and freedom taken away
The exact same he did with others, take their lives away and take someone's freedom

>ironically, it ends up benefitting his MIL
>he wanted to benefit from taking away man's freedom (locking him up)
>now she's benefitting off him losing his freedom


I think a big theme of this movie is our personal freedoms and liberties
>and trying to take away others

>>212900566 (OP)
If you have to push threads it's probably not good bro

>>212910480
>The other is the Vernon "cult" thing. The wife was clearly abused as a child, note the phallic noses on so many of the dolls she makes. Were we suppose to just take Vernon as a cook cult leader praying on isolated people with mental issues ? Or were we suppose to believe him ?
Hypnosis to unlock memories has definitely caused problems with people in real life, where they truly believe something that happened that did not happen.

I think he is sincere, but I also think he is operating in less than good faith.

>>212910663
clearly (You) do.
I win again.

*closes thread*

>>212910688
I'm who you're replying to >>212910584
had to delete cuz I fucked up the formatting of my post but yes, that's exactly what I got from it too. I feel like this movie is made for people who've read pic related.
also as soon as the jet with the "anti-fa" guys loading magazines came on screen, all I could think was "holy shit, bro is actually going full on operation gladio here" and I was all for it.
I feel like this movie was a little too based and that's why it's so polarizing, 80% of the people watching it are just going to be confused because it mocks conspiracy theorists while jumping into an even wider conspiracy.

>>212905617
What sequel? To quote the movie "Are you fucking retarded?" The story fucking ended. Where would you go from there? Follow Michael as probably a glowie agent?

>>212910956
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/7/19/ari-aster-planning-eddington-sequel-a-horror-film-and-a-sci-fi-project-will-he-get-to-make-any-of-them

>>212911058
>He's banking on A24 not learning their lesson
OK. You got me. They backed him twice, why not more?

>>212905055
>he was set up by the government's glowies or antifa
Is it possible that he suspected Joe was trying to frame him for the mayor's murder before all the antifa shit happened?
I wish the pacing of this movie would've been better. It had an incredible first half, then it started to drag, then the action at the end was good but at that point I was ready for it to end.
There were too many things being thrown around. I liked the Emma Stone pedo idea but they probably should've cut it.

>>212911240
IDK, if people took me into a field, glued my mouth shut, placed landmines around me in order to lure a Sheriff and his deputy to come get me and kill them while they have a drone flying above and people with guns on the ridge, I would assume it is all them.

>>212900566 (OP)
the state of modern politics is such that most people on the left and right will hate it for "both sidesing" as they call it

>>212900566 (OP)
Why would they set the movie in 2020 when all the action is in 2025?

>>212903558
>couple years ago we had left wingers openly celebrating and laughing when an anti-vaccine person died.
every time a celebrity dies there are people on here asking about their "vax status" so it's not like the right is innocent of this either

>>212911240
didn't Joe set himself up for framing Michael early on in the film by telling him to go shooting at the range?

I could be wrong

>>212911724
No, I think that was before he snapped. IIRC, he recommended Michael to practice when he suggested Michael was going to be a sergeant. He used Michael after, sure, but he didn't plan it from the start. He just knew Michael was a good scapegoat.

>>212911313
Joe was acting strange at the murder scene and still threw him in jail tho for having that gun in the car which he explicitly told Michael to go practice with if I remember correctly. And if he hadn't been thrown in jail by Joe he wouldn't have gotten kidnapped and fucked up by the glowies.

>>212900566 (OP)
Leaving the theater after seeing this movie on Thursday left me feeling like J. K. Simmons at the end of burn after reading. I just don’t know what to make of it.

The first half of the film mostly meanders, the characters are the kind of midwit people that are insufferable irl and it’s mostly just them going about their lives and dealing with the bullshit frustrations of spring 2020. I’m not entirely certain whether it’s trying to criticize the left or the right here, however. It mocks certain leftist ideas like self hating whites, but then clearly mocks conspiracy brained individuals on the right.

Then the film’s second half actually gets things going and Walking Phoenix has a First Blood type shootout with literal Jew funded ANTIFA super soldiers. Which throws a wrench into the first half of the movies messaging that mocks the kind of people that would believe conspiracy nonsense; Phoenix is literally vindicated in the end.

Also the ending is trash. Yeah, Joaquin was a POS for trying to frame that guy and deserved a comeuppance, but his inevitable fate is far too meanspirited. The film should have concluded with the kid saving Joaquin and then ending up being gunned down by arriving police units, as a karma for being a fuckhead. Then Joaquin bleeds out in the street, but ends up being immortalized as a heroic martyr against ANTIFA - an ironic twist despite him killing Pedo Pascal and framing Michael the diversity hire deputy.

Also why did the ending give you the vibes that Michael knew it was Joaquin that framed him? Logically, he should assume it was the literal black ops antifa army that was responsible. Hell, they even abducted him out of his cell and tried to use him as a dummy to coax Joaquin into shooting him in order to start further riots.

Idk, man. I’m not entirely sure what happened, I have no idea why it happened, and I’m not sure what I was supposed to learn from it all.

>>212909548
killing people who mildly inconvienence you is based, actually

why would the antifa people frame michael successfully and then kidnap him from the jail and blow him up?
i dont blame him for suspecting joe. and there mightve been some hints we're missing, there was a lot of little gags and hints in the movie

>>212912793
I think the antifa super soldier bit is a conclusion of joe's relationship with his schizo mil/wife and the escalation of all the things going on in his life. He starts out with obviously (to everyone who isnt completely braindead cattle) aspirations but even if he can reject all the schizo ideas of his family, them + social media take an effect that constantly escalate his boogeyman until it straight up manifests into reality. For a while I thought the shootout was going to be a giant dream sequence where he eventually wakes up and realizes he's in a hospital about to die of COVID, but I'm glad it didn't because that would have been a gay copout.

>>212900804
im good thanks

>>212912964
When the shootout was happening, I thought it was going to conclude with Joe shooting at every shadow he saw and inadvertently killing half the town. In the wake of Tedd’s murder, Joe goes on tv and makes a point about how people in the town own guns and that if ANTIFA types want to come to town and invade anyone else’s home, they can expect the homeowners to be armed. I was expecting some rando civilian to end up popping his ass.

>>212909315
Which preacher? I assumed he was meant to be a kind of Russel brand esque figure.