Director Ari Aster knew his new film "Eddington" (starring Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone) was going to be divisive. In our interview, he explains why that didn't stop him.
00:00We knew it was going to be divisive, like it's sort of, it's about polarization, it's about division.
00:06We tried to pull back as far as we could to have it be about the environment, right?
00:12Where kind of everybody is kind of in one way or another missing part of the picture, right?
00:18Nobody's acting in bad faith, nobody is evil in this movie, they're just all people acting on their own perspective.
00:24Everybody in the movie cares about the world, every character cares about the world, knows that something's wrong, has a feeling that something's wrong, but they have different pictures of what that is.