Eddington portrays the impact of conspiracy theories propagated online, represented through characters who echo these claims in their everyday lives. Aster draws inspiration from current events and real-life interactions to depict a chaotic online environment. The film incorporates the theme of AI, illustrating its development alongside social crises, particularly during the COVID pandemic. This intersection highlights the technological influences affecting society while striving to create an engaging narrative amidst the noise of the internet.
"One thing was inspired by somebody I heard on the street in New York with a microphone. I wrote that down for later. Others were pulled from different corners of the internet."
"It was important to get as many voices in the cacophony and represent as many corners of the internet as possible—to make a coherent story about the incoherent miasma we are living in."
"Eddington may primarily be a movie about how social media is breaking our brains, but there's another technological innovation Aster was careful to represent in his movie: artificial intelligence."
"I wish we could have shown more, but we did as much as we could without it becoming distracting or no longer supporting the story."
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