The latest release from the man who made Hereditary and Midsommar is an exploration of a society tearing itself apart
As far as anyone knows, filmmaker Ari Aster was nowhere near Wuhan, China, in December of 2019. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic and its many attendant crises of the body, soul and spirit seem so queasily and perfectly aligned with the director’s pitch-black sensibilities that even if the novel coronavirus did not exist, Aster might have eventually invented it himself., Aster’s new epic of absurdity that takes direct aim at the pandemic and its early, debilitating effect on the American psyche.
Rather timid and gentle for a lawman but seemingly imbued with a just sense of right and wrong, Sheriff Joe is highly skeptical of any pandemic-prevention measures. This puts him in direct conflict with Mayor Ted Garcia , whose smarmy progressive veneer has irked Cross for ages. Yet just when it seems as if Aster has made his most conventional film yet following the triangle of sadness that isWhat began as a prickly satire of pandemic-era politics turns into a vicious exploration of what happens when a society tears itself apart. Shocking moments of violence lead to genuinely upsetting narrative and thematic pivots, so much so that pro-vaxxers and anti-maskers will sometimes find themselves briefly aligned, if only for a moment.
Aster also proves himself to be the most skilled craftsman of his time when it comes to delivering moments of genuine, eye-popping shock. This is a movie that doesn’t just bleed, but gushes.
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