BONUS: Eddington was a Documentary

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Our mysterious Anarcho Film Critic returns to debate EDDINGTON, Ari Aster's new Western farce set in a small New Mexico town experiencing the pandemic, George Floyd Uprising, and the rise of an AI data facility outside town. Is it a nihilistic farce with no message, or a powerful rebuke to impoverished mainstream narratives?

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Sophie Lewis essay: https://communemag.com/the-satanic-death-cult-is-real/

Thomas Chatterton Williams book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/22/summer-of-our-discontent-by-thomas-chatterton-williams-reivew-a-muddled-take-on-us-race-politics-and-class

Shemon & Arturo texts: The Return of John Brown: White Rice Traitors in the 2020 Uprising: https://illwill.com/the-return-of-john-brown-white-race-traitors-in-the-2020-uprising

On car caravans: https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cars-riots-black-liberation

The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising Book

George Floyd Uprising book by Vortex Group

Song: Bonnie Gentry - Courtyard

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, we're here with our anarcho film critic, Dan.
0:04.0	How's it going, Dan?
0:05.6	Pretty good. How's it going, Andy?
0:07.3	The mysterious Dan.
0:08.7	Going good. Very hot day here in New York.
0:11.2	It's about 100 degrees.
0:13.0	Good day to watch a film or talk about a film that you recently watched.
0:18.0	And we're going to talk today about Eddington.
0:20.7	You probably
0:21.0	remember Dan previous episodes about Mad Max, Fight Club, and Joker 2. And I assume a lot of what
0:27.2	we're going to talk about is the twist in Eddington that comes towards the last act. And I really
0:32.2	think it's much better not knowing what that twist is. So we'll probably try to avoid that for the first third or
0:39.7	half of the episode. But Dan actually spoiled this twist for me months ago. I don't know how you...
0:45.7	Yeah, I have no idea how I could have known that. So... Was it in a trailer? I don't know. Maybe it's just
0:51.9	because of my own shadowy affiliations.
0:54.9	Okay. Is it because we know someone who worked on the movie?
0:57.4	No, it's because I am part of...
1:00.7	Oh, yeah. All right. Well, all right. So, yeah, let's save that for later.
1:04.8	And maybe we'll be able to start with a quick review of the film or like how we felt about it. I mean, I loved it. I loved Eddington.
1:12.9	I don't think it was a perfect film, but at times I thought if I was going to make a movie about
1:17.8	2020, certain things in this movie would be what I would like to do with it or express with it.
1:24.7	So I give it four out of five tinfoil cowboy hats. What do you think, Dan?
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