Eddington(2025) written review.

 

Eddington

Cast: Joaquin Pheonix, Pedro Pascal,Emma Stone

Writer and Director: Ari Aster

 **** out of Five Stars

The Covid pandemic in 2020 is something that everyone is still recovering from.  Having the whole world being basically shut down for a year has affected the way we socialize with each other for years to come. We were stuck in our homes with only the people we knew and the politics and our interests more or less the same.  This is the time where we saw the rise of the extreme right and the extreme left become more and more popular in our culture.  This latest film from director Ari Aster(Hereditary) shows us that divide in this very unique dark comedy reflection of our times.

Joker:Folie a Duex(2024) will be hated today but appeciated years later.

 

When Todd Phillips released Joker back in 2019, it was a very different sort of film.  Now Batman’s most famous arch nemesis has gone from very goofy and campy when Ceasar Romero played him in the 60’s television series to the dark, unhinged performance Heath Ledger gave in the Dark Knight.  Each actor from Jack Nicholson to Mark Hamill have their own take on this iconic character and how you feel about each performance is really up to you.  Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal was something different than the others because this time.  The story would be focused solely on him and it became an alternate origin story and a somewhat character study on mental illness.  Taking inspiration from Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy.  Joker was met with a lot of  praise from critics and audiences and even won Phoenix an Oscar for best actor.