MMR Nmd<p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheLever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheLever</span></a> is definetly a great media and its podcasts are both radical and unbiased (yes, it is possible).</p><p>Listening to the latest podcast of Augut 11th 2025, I discovered a movie from <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AriAster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AriAster</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Eddington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eddington</span></a> </p><p>"You might recognize director Ari Aster from his groundbreaking horror films like Hereditary and Midsommar.</p><p>But Aster just dropped the scariest film of his career: Eddington, a dark COVID-19 comedy starring <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/JoaquinPhoenix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoaquinPhoenix</span></a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PedroPascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PedroPascal</span></a>, and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/EmmaStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmmaStone</span></a>, about social media-driven polarization, gun violence, and the looming tech takeover. </p><p>Today on Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Aster about the inspiration behind his all-too-prescient film.</p><p>Did the coronavirus pandemic break our brains, leaving our communities with no commonly accepted set of facts?<br>How do we navigate today’s AI slop-driven informational hellscape?<br>And is it possible to avoid the twisted fate of Eddington, Aster’s fictional New Mexico town?"</p><p>Listen to the podcast, it's 35 minutes of intelligent interview and thoughtful answers.</p><p>And, oh, go and see the movie, I definitely will, I will be the first time in ages I'll pay for a ticket rather than qBit it.</p><p><a href="https://www.levernews.com/ari-aster-thinks-youre-being-manipulated/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">levernews.com/ari-aster-thinks</span><span class="invisible">-youre-being-manipulated/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/MassManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassManipulation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pandemic</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coronavirus</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a></p>