IMAX: Galapagos 3D (1999)

Ari Aster’s neo-Western film, Eddington, touches upon as many social-political discourses as possible: Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, selection, conspiracy theories, sexual abuse, cults, borders, data centers, youths’ lives during the pandemic, gun violence, extremism, and the merge of media and politics.

The racial identities of the characters are directly and vocally addressed in the dialogues of the film. Being white, Hispanic, indigenous, or Black is an important factor defining the tension in social settings and impacting their actions. Most prominently, police officer Micheal was passively being centered in the discussion of BLM protests frequently as a Black man. He was framed as the murderer of the rival for the mayoral election, Ted Garcia, and his son at the end, with a manufactured racial motive.