Eternal Storm of the Clouded Mind

Film poster for Eternity. Courtesy of A24.

David Freyne’s Eternity starts with a premise that sounds like a thought experiment invented to criticize Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence.

Imagine you’ve died and woken up in a glowing transit hub. There, you have one week to decide where and with whom to spend forever. The Junction resembles an airport built by someone who has only seen airports in dreams—ads scream the virtues of a “Surf World” and a “Man-Free World”, a sales rep assures you that a “Capitalist World” is “economically stimulating,” and souls wander around clutching pamphlets. It’s chaos with soft carpeting.

Dropped into this cosmic trade show is Joan, played by Elizabeth Olsen with warmth and a touch of existential confusion…

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