Media as the Evil in Eddington
Eddington attempts to capture how media is intertwined with the uncomfortable present.

Ariel is a middle-class young man, a father of a family, who surprisingly loses his job in the context of a wave of layoffs. Altered and hiding from his family what happened, he escapes his father-in-law's birthday to go to a nightclub, where an old acquaintance offers to be part of a narco business. Ariel accepts, trusting that his participation will be limited, but things go out of control.
Eddington attempts to capture how media is intertwined with the uncomfortable present.
With a quirky outline, Project Hail Mary stays within the bounds of human language and imperial fantasy.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
Films can alleviate alienation by presenting realities where the viewers feelings are shared by onscreen characters. The film 'Shrek' can be interpreted as a transgender story.
The film is a powerful narrative encompassing a theme that many people can identify with.