Ari Aster explains the thinking behind the ending of 'Eddington,' his movie about a small town in crisis at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eddington is, I think, less about political axe grinding, or even point making, and more about what it feels like to have all the noise of the world descend upon you at once. It is essentially a horror-comedy about the whole of the internet arriving in a small town seemingly in a single day.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a hot-button issue in the American culture war that Ari Aster ‘s “Eddington” doesn’t take a swing at.