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<v Speaker 1>Starting us off is Eddington, Thank You, Charles, a neo

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<v Speaker 1>Western satirical black comedy written and directed by Aery Astor

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<v Speaker 1>and this, of course film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal,

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<v Speaker 1>Emma Stone, Michael Ward, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Some other folks. Now, of course, Charles.

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<v Speaker 1>This film is set in twenty twenty during the pandemic

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<v Speaker 1>in a New Mexico town where personal rivalries explode into

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<v Speaker 1>public unrests.

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<v Speaker 2>So pretty much.

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<v Speaker 1>The easiest way to kind of think about this, This

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<v Speaker 1>movie happens in May twenty twenty, and everybody is supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be massed up right in the state of New Mexico.

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<v Speaker 2>The only person.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not massed up and doesn't want to be massed

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<v Speaker 1>up is actually the sheriff of the town, played by

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<v Speaker 1>Joaquin Phoenix. You know, there's several scenes where him and

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<v Speaker 1>the mare butt heads. The first time is when he's

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<v Speaker 1>walking down the street and everybody he's the mayor's having

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<v Speaker 1>a cabinet.

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<v Speaker 2>Meeting or a meeting in a bar and.

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<v Speaker 1>There's some homeless guy that's beating on the door that

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<v Speaker 1>wants to get in, and he's called the sheriff to

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<v Speaker 1>try to get the guy go away, and he goes man,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a citizen man, he has the right to be here.

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<v Speaker 1>So he plays sort of a maga esque sort of

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<v Speaker 1>a character during the pandemic, right, so him and the

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<v Speaker 1>mayor don't see eye to eye. The mayor's trying to

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<v Speaker 1>rationalize with him. There's another scene where, you know, you

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<v Speaker 1>remember during the pandemic when it got this bad, where

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<v Speaker 1>they had people waiting in line, and you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>had to have our space is sixty and everybody just

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't walk in. You had to stand in line. And

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<v Speaker 1>of course he walks in the supermarket in front of

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<v Speaker 1>the entire line, no mask, coming in there to shop

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<v Speaker 1>for the homeless guy or some patron who was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't breathe through my mask. So you have all

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<v Speaker 1>these dynamic that makes happening in the movie. Also, remember

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<v Speaker 1>during the film, George Floyd is murdered. So now there

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<v Speaker 1>are all these protests in the town BLM and Black

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<v Speaker 1>Lives Matter, and man, I'm sitting next to a film

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<v Speaker 1>critic of mind who is a colleague of our, Sam

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<v Speaker 1>Leggott Junior, and we looking.

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<v Speaker 2>At each other and I'm like, too soon for this.

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<v Speaker 2>This is just not the movie that I signed up

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<v Speaker 2>to watch to night. It's too soon, Yes, sir, it is.

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<v Speaker 1>You know why, because now we are living in a

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<v Speaker 1>time with no DEI and all this stuff that's going on,

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<v Speaker 1>and then this is just five years ago. This is

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<v Speaker 1>not like this is like twenty five years ago. This

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<v Speaker 1>movie takes place five years ago. So I needless to say.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to give away the twist, but the

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<v Speaker 1>movie has a twist to it, right, and then it

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<v Speaker 1>really gets weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Right.

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<v Speaker 1>So it got so bad because I didn't realize that

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<v Speaker 1>the run time was.

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<v Speaker 2>Was it like two forty or something like that. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's it's a long movie, pretty long, and and

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<v Speaker 2>and the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>Has several instances where you feel like it is going to.

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<v Speaker 2>End, and then yet it continues going. And I.

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<v Speaker 1>Told Charles, I said, the last time I saw a

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<v Speaker 1>movie that had multiple endings like that was Lord of

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<v Speaker 1>the Rings, Return of the King. But at least in

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<v Speaker 1>that movie, you just kept giving me more good stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>This movie was the opposite. It just kept getting worse

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<v Speaker 1>and worse. And by the time it got to the end,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I also had parking that I had to

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<v Speaker 1>deal with.

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<v Speaker 2>I realized I didn't realize the movie I put. I

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<v Speaker 2>stayed for three hours.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking most movies will be over in three hours,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm standing. I got up to the I didn't leave,

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<v Speaker 1>but I stood in the wings because I was trying

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<v Speaker 1>to wait for the movie to be over so I

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<v Speaker 1>could run out to my car and get I get

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<v Speaker 1>a text the next day, you walking out of movies

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<v Speaker 1>talking about man.

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<v Speaker 2>I was standing in the wings.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't walk out of the movie, so needless to

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<v Speaker 1>say man. I'll just wrap the review by saying, in

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<v Speaker 1>the end, Eddington is less a searing satire than a

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<v Speaker 1>cautionary tale about what happens when even the boldest filmmakers

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<v Speaker 1>let ambition run amok, and trying to distill the chaos

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<v Speaker 1>of an era defined by fear, anger, and misinformation as

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<v Speaker 1>their delivers of film that every bit as fractured as

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<v Speaker 1>the world it betrays.

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<v Speaker 2>I gave this movie a D.

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<v Speaker 1>Did not like this movie at all, not