Ari Aster Offers New Mexico By Way Of NYC
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Ari Aster’s Eddington isn’t rooted in any actual feud or real historical events but emerged from his own lived experience during the early months of the COVID‑19 pandemic.
In the A24 horror auteur's Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down town.
The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) clashes with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) over plans to bring an artificial intelligence data center to the community.
Aster: There’s one clear winner in this film and that’s the important thing to remember: I’ll just say, it’s in the final shot. If somebody asked me “What is the movie about in one sentence?” I’d say “It’s about a data center being built just outside of a small town.”