One unintentional conclusion Ari Aster’s “Eddington” points to just by engaging in the issues so openly and fearlessly in its depicting the protestors as “correct but incredibly annoying and bad at talking about these issues” is this is the natural consequence of leaderless protest.
Like it’s a quality that was trumpeted as a virtue “notably during occupy” but clearly an albatross.
Didn’t mean quotations there
It’s also how you get reactionary cranks using your movement to build credibility like Tim Pool and Cassandra Fairbanks and what could currently be prevented if Free Gaza folks here were able to be like “fuck off” to Taylor Lorenz.
Reminds me how part of the power of the movie is indicated in seeing young film twitter kids who generally get really into what ever the current radical politics thing is handle the criticism surprisingly well because their ultimate and very real concerns are treated as valid.
It opens a path in a way to getting some self awareness into social media spaces that bracket themselves off from that. The right winger people who follow film culture people interestingly and not surprisingly by contrast can’t handle that it makes fun of their side.