Midsommar and hereditary director Ari Aster once again had a shock to the surreal, Gory Western, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ari Aster's first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, are admired by fans of so-called "elevated horror", but his third film, Beauty 2023, is even more scary and more divisive: Even its fans admit that Aster's psychedelic therapy session is on the self-indulgent side. His fourth film is far less over and overwhelming, which makes it even more overwhelming and overwhelming than almost any other films you’re likely to watch this year. If Beau's fear seems to be about Aster's own fear and neurosis, then Eddington is about the more common fear and neurosis in the United States in 2020. The writer director puts everything into his black comics modern western-covid-19 and online conspiracy theories, as well as online conspiracy theories, black lives and white private and cryptocurency, even all of this work, that the movie might be better if the movie was more focused (and shorter), but Aster's fantasy vision made most directors look timid.

His core idea is that all the most controversial conversation points in the United States are squeezed into the small desert town of Edington, New Mexico. Joaquin Phoenix plays a clumsy, barely capable sheriff, Joe, who likes to say none of these issues is “the problem here”: Yes, the pandemic is a bad one, yes, George Floyd’s killing of George Floyd is a shameful crime anyway, he has more personal plus important concerns. The town’s mayor, Pedro Pascal, has signed an agreement to allow for the construction of a sprawling technology center nearby. Joe's wife, Louise (Emma Stone), has long been anxious about the mayor. His mother-in-law, Deirdre O'Connell, is obsessed with the sheriff and husband by his own shortcomings. Joe's solution to his dissatisfaction (as bad as everything he did) is to oppose TED as an anti-lockdown candidate in the looming mayoral election.

For some time, the film and the Sheriff have been strolling slowly and repeatedly from themes to genres to genres. Eddington is both a quirky town politics and a fanatical satire, which can be a shocking combination. You watch with a mix of independent respect, Aster ignores the problems, melancholy in so many films that he is so pessimistic about them, slightly entertains with prejudice about them all, and is so frustrated that he will not only find the plot and stick with it. Audiences may also experience the constraints of constant headache--not because a particular character is at risk, but because almost all characters are so ignorant and hostile that it always feels like the situation that causes dismal conditions will get worse. As he fears at Beau, you never really are here, Phoenix is ​​a master who feels uncomfortable with his own skin, and the weird sheriff he plays is sympathetic, even in his most wrong mind, as he gets used to the habit of making himself worse than others.

It didn't really speed it up until Eddington was marking somewhere in the middle, when the murder turned the film into a ridiculous thriller, the echo of Fargo of the Coen Brothers, the country without the old man, and the inherent vices of Paul Thomas Anderson (the other one is the fanatic of the redundant Auteur phoeenix). The sheriff's investigation doesn't fit well with previous satirical and tragicity: Austin Butler's cameo may have been cut into a cool new-age agitator, with little chaos in the stone. But tension and conspiracy have increased, and the results suddenly seem important.

Then, just as you were attracted by the murder plot, Eddington turned another way. Its low-level strangeness jumps to surreal and gory heights – it keeps evolving until it reaches its peak of high adrenaline at the Gonzo high, which will make you salivate. Until then, many viewers would have enough movies, but there is some heroism about Aster's uncompromising determination to go his own way. After Beau was scared, he quickly got rid of such an unrelated project, which was also amazing. Eddington's overly nature shows that conflicts in the 21st century in the United States end up being too much for him. But you have to give it to him to try.