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Heidi in Real Time's avatar

"If Eddington helps show us why we’re all such miserable jerks, Superman shows us how we could all be a little bit nicer and better."

I love this sentence mostly because it seems to beautifully encapsulate our lives online- an environment consistently offering us the choice to be the best or worst version of ourselves. Surely a great prompt for a different post. Thank you for the reviews, with an overwhelming amount of content at our fingertips it's nice to find gems that weren't on my radar!

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Ah yes, ā€œEddington.ā€ Finally, a film that dares to hold up the black mirror inside the black mirror.

Because let’s be honest: the real pandemic wasn’t COVID. It was content. The virus was just the background music—what really infected us was the endless buffet of dopamine-fueled outrage, despair, and self-branding. Mask up, wash your hands, and don’t forget to livestream your existential crisis for the algorithm gods.

2020 wasn’t a year. It was a feed. And now, like good little pilgrims of the scroll, we gather at the altar of Ari Aster, who saw through the chaos and asked the only heretical question worth asking: what if the town lunatic now had WiFi and a ring light?

Bravo to Bunch for noticing the real horror. Not the sickness. Not the lockdowns. But that we all went mad together and called it community.

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