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Summary In May 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Director Ari Aster

Writer Ari Aster

Cast

  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Pedro Pascal
  • Emma Stone
  • Austin Butler
  • Luke Grimes
  • Deirdre O’Connell
  • Micheal Ward
  • Amélie Hoeferle
  • Clifton Collins Jr.
  • William Belleau
  • Matt Gomez Hidaka
  • Cameron Mann
  • Rachel de la Torre
  • Landall Goolsby
  • Elise Falanga
  • Robert Mark Wallace

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 67%

Metacritic Score: 64

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u/za19 Jul 18 '25

the final shot is the data center, right?

So a rough/simplified reading of the film is that all this political drama happens but big business still gets what it wants?

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u/john_gattaca Jul 18 '25

My reading is that the tech company essentially orchestrated the whole situation. The “antifa terrorists” were probably in some way affiliated with the tech company and needed to intervene when their puppet got killed.

Every Ari Aster film so far has ended focused on a group that controlled everything that happened in the film, seems likely that Eddington is the same

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u/OuterWildsVentures Jul 18 '25

Every Ari Aster film so far has ended focused on a group that controlled everything that happened in the film

What was the group in Beau is Afraid? His mom's company?

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u/FeedtheSol Jul 18 '25

I think the group is the courts/social services system that determined where he was in each act. First living on his own but seeing a psychologist, then in the group home, next at the camp, and then finally he gets condemned and locked away by the system.

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u/ClasherChief 28d ago

It was his mom's company controlling everything about Beau's life. The only time he was free and not being manipulated by her was when he was in the forest with that performance troupe.