Eddington, 2025 - ★★★★½
What cracked in 2020? Was it the culmination of long-standing injustices laid bear across socio-economic, racial, class and political divisions? Or were we all just stuck inside, afraid and powerless, and naturally went a little funny in the head.
Fear and frustration twists the mind. It gives license to our worst and most animalistic values.
Eddington is an incredible film because it dares to take us back to our worst moments, and shows the very human path towards anger and violence. It's a film without any heroes with influences from "Nashville" to "No Country for Old Men" that bleed into feeling of cyclical and inevitable violence -- and its white washing.
Surprisingly entertaining for a film that is so dark - and it has at least 4 literal "Holy Shit" moments.
"It don't worry me... It don't worry me.... You may say, that I ain't free, but it don't worry me."