WHY BEAU IS AFRAID | A Film Analysis

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  • Опубликовано: 5 июл 2023
  • A deep-dive into Ari Aster's 'Beau Is Afraid', starring Joaquin Phoenix and Patti LuPone.
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  • @limonx6778
    @limonx6778 Год назад +353

    This movie was 3 hours of raw and consistent "he just like me fr" moments.

  • @KittyPieVibes
    @KittyPieVibes Год назад +265

    This is such a good break down and made me notice that Beau’s mom is 100% a narcissist. She is incapable of feeling empathy for him, she sees herself as this perfect mother and amazing business woman, she uses people for her own gain, she fails to see how her own toxicity is pushing Beau away, furthermore she doesn’t even think she’s done anything wrong and feels it’s everyone else who’s out to get her, and at the root of it all she’s a deeply insecure and unloved person.
    When you view Beau’s relationship with his mom through the lense of living with a narcissist it makes so much more sense.
    Even the trial at the end of the film is just a literal representation of trying to defend yourself against someone who sees everything you do as a personal attack to them

    • @UATU.
      @UATU. 11 месяцев назад +4

      You nailed it.

    • @speedgrump5515
      @speedgrump5515 10 месяцев назад +4

      In my opinion, I think one of the saddest things about these situations is the presence of blame. Often, an abused and hurt child will thrust the pain of their up-bringing onto the narcissistic parent, demonizing them with complete blame. This further perpetuates the cycle of shame and pain the parent feels in the first place from their own often horrible situation. People are, fortunately, not narcissistic out of the womb, and become this way as unconscious learned behavior as a defense to their environment. To fully blame the narcissist, while ignoring their pain, would be akin to blaming someone like Beau for the way he is, ignoring why he is the way he is. Responsibility is often substituted with blame, and blame in situations like these helps no one

    • @alexxx4434
      @alexxx4434 8 месяцев назад +1

      I think it can be said that narcissism is basically a coping mechanism to the childhood trauma. It trying to compensate through external things one's deep rooted beliefs of being unloved and impossibility of being loved. A coping mechanism that is widely accepted in our wretched modern society for reasons... Ari Ester films so far are essentially about the cycle of trauma that goes in families.

    • @hippiecheezburger5457
      @hippiecheezburger5457 7 месяцев назад +1

      Honestly I have a friend who seems to have the same complex but not as severe, his mom fucked his head up and literally had to move away from her eventually and now lives in Florida bettering himself while his mom still lives in New Jersey. While he was here he slowly became reclusive, uninterested in social settings and work and also has a lot of trouble with more serious relationships with other women. I lived with the guy I know. Hope he’s doing better

    • @aliya.ayyyeee
      @aliya.ayyyeee 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@hippiecheezburger5457Wow, this sounds just like my ex. Except he’s still in NJ. And is super into working but only as a means to avoid relationships. Seeing the trauma these central figures place on us is such a heavy burden, even with compassion it can feel exhausting. Anyway, crazy fucking movie, eh?

  • @johannvonbabylon
    @johannvonbabylon 11 месяцев назад +105

    The tragedy of Toni's situation is that her parents would never have loved her a fraction as much as they love their dead son, because their dead son is a permanently perfect child. He died a hero (at least according to society's notion that all soldiers who are killed in action are heroes) and now being dead, he can never disappoint his parents, he can never betray them. Consequently, Beau empathizes with Toni more so than anybody else whose path he crosses because he knows what it's like to never live up to parents' impossible standards.

    • @MKateUltra
      @MKateUltra 9 месяцев назад +2

      You long for someone more when they’re gone than when they’re alive.

    • @michellecnebrown6792
      @michellecnebrown6792 Месяц назад +1

      I feel the same about my mother, though who abusive had moments of great kindness, She died when I was thirteen and has been on a pedestal in my head for 35 years.

    • @notsorry3631
      @notsorry3631 5 дней назад

      I related to that a lot. My brother almost died from a car accident as a toddler and had severe adhd and could do no wrong. Almost everything I did was wrong until I was near 30 and my mom had a change. She apologized to me for the first time I can ever remember after I told her how I felt.

  • @benzos5704
    @benzos5704 Год назад +132

    Something about that scene where he crosses the street for water and that homeless guy immediately follows him frantically asking for help… got my anxiety in high gear. That feeling of how you’re in desperate need of a fix yourself and you feel and hurt for others asking for help. Pure chaos in the head.

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +14

      I agree! Aster really captures very specific examples of dread and anxiety in the film.

    • @megwings11
      @megwings11 Год назад +14

      That scene is too good. It hits hard living in Cape Town, an incredible place to live in a lot of ways (for those of us who are fortunate! but we have terrible problems with inequality and homelessness. You can’t go into most shops without being ‘accosted’ by a desperate person. And it slowly chips away at your empathy, too. It’s just awful. And really messes with your head! This scene and a lot of the scenes outside Beau’s apartment really hit hard.

  • @kalaendhil-stevenot6938
    @kalaendhil-stevenot6938 6 месяцев назад +29

    The Last words made this amazing analysis even better. "In the end Beau was afraid, but only because Mona was Terrified". 🎉

  • @Nemtrac5
    @Nemtrac5 Год назад +121

    This is undoubtedly the most accurate representation of the movie I've seen.
    People always skip over the part where he is called selfish by the play narrator and confesses cowardice. He then wakes up to horns and lives out a fairytale. He is guilty, of not standing up for himself, of cowardice. Only through reflecting on this was he able to grow beyond it.
    Compared to the end scene where his self-respect is thrown off a ledge and when the horns blare he begs for help from his mom, falling back into the same trap.
    Which reminds me - if you rewatch the part where he first enters the play company and listen to the actors previewing they are foreshadowing the ending. Seem to be speaking about the cave 'if it were a trap? Or is it an opportunity?...' the scene even ends with stage lights mimicking the projectors in the arena and Beau having water dumped on his head (drowning).
    I also wonder what the boat engine represents at the end. Clearly he has had some motivation pushing him forward through the constant cycles of abuse from his mother. What broke down here? His sanity?

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +18

      Thank you!
      Yeah, that part you mentioned in the preview of the play is definitely another example of the fatalism running through the film. And the dialogue by Penelope there to Beau: "let's not spoil it." As well as the actor talking about the revelation that those horns sounding are funeral horns.
      Which of course, Beau does realize when the trumpets sound in the arena, hence his panic when he hears them.
      The boat engine stalling could be a number of different things. I think the concept of cycles, like you mentioned, is important here. It could act as a culmination of his guilt and perhaps how he felt like because of that perpetual cycle he has to go through with his mother his entire life, he is metaphorically (and now literally) stuck in place. I don't view the engine/boat as a breakdown of his sanity, but of course that would be a perfectly valid take!

  • @PlasmaGames
    @PlasmaGames Год назад +116

    this was a masterclass of a breakdown oh my god

  • @ZacharyRoy1
    @ZacharyRoy1 Год назад +207

    I’ll expose a dumb bias I had in avoiding this video due to low view count but this is by far the best video on this movie on RUclips. Great work! Another point that I think might be overlooked in the few analysis I’ve seen is that Beau is an only child. As one myself, I can definitely relate to Beaus anxiety over disappointing your parent, with no one to share that emotion with. It’s also interesting to think that Toni is also an only child after the death of her brother.

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +22

      Thanks, I really appreciate that! Yeah there is so many layers to uncover with this movie, it’s unbelievable. You’re right though!

    • @chuckl.mcgill1486
      @chuckl.mcgill1486 Год назад +4

      @@ryanthetimetraveleryou are truly a master at work

    • @thetrynes
      @thetrynes 11 месяцев назад +5

      Beau had a brother...who also died allegedly

    • @freddykruger8229
      @freddykruger8229 9 месяцев назад +4

      The daughter had multiple posters with the phrase: "Only one", on them also.

  • @mikeleddyphoto
    @mikeleddyphoto 2 месяца назад +7

    Wait… this is the best Beau Is Afraid analysis on here. Seriously, thank you for covering this film. It’s not an easy one to cover. Subbed!

  • @mo3bo
    @mo3bo Год назад +45

    I really don’t want to have children, no matter how much I try I see so much of my parents in myself. I don’t want my children to go through anything that I did and I feel like it’s unavoidable. I can avoid it all together if I don’t have kids.
    This is a great analysis by the way, so much better than all the other ones who make it about themselves. I feel like you see this movie for what it is and not what you want it to be.

    • @lichen4802
      @lichen4802 11 месяцев назад +6

      I got u! Same for me and my partner…😢Most people around us give birth to babies for themselves, their family, their god or whatever, but never for the baby

    • @alexxx4434
      @alexxx4434 8 месяцев назад +4

      Justifiable fears. The only sure way to break the cycle of abuse is to not have kids. It's not impossible to stop replicating your parents towards your own kids, of course, but one must be a fool to underestimate the difficulty of such task.
      I've read many stories of people who had unwent narcissistic parents abuse. They decided to have children with a conviction to not repeat what have been done to them. And they believe they are great parents of themselves. I'm always skeptical of such stories. There is just so much unconscious going on in a person's head. Even in this movie we see how the mother character thinks (or more likely desperately wants to think) that she's a great mother.

    • @michellecnebrown6792
      @michellecnebrown6792 Месяц назад +1

      Some of us can only see this in hind site and cringe because you DO NOT want to regret your babies. I applaud your ability to process this terrible truth ahead of things. Always know a curse can be broken. I must have faith in that.

  • @embalmshell
    @embalmshell Год назад +15

    This film is just one giant intrusive thought

  • @brickwitheyes1710
    @brickwitheyes1710 7 месяцев назад +10

    The trial reminded me so much of the trial at the end of Pink Floyd's the wall. And the whole film was an act of the song Mother of the same album

  • @annawshl
    @annawshl Год назад +57

    First of all, this was a fantastic overview and unpacking of the film. Second of all, I saw Beau is Afraid with closed captions on at a nearby theater and in the opening scene of Beau's birth Mona says "you made me have him!". I think that his father is alive and perhaps pressured or coerced Mona into motherhood, resulting in all the resentment both of Beau and his father that we see from Mona during the film, as well as her desperation to contain/repress Beau's sexuality/masculinity.

    • @mckernan603
      @mckernan603 Год назад

      What does the giant peen mean?

    • @zubileegluckgluck
      @zubileegluckgluck Год назад +12

      @@mckernan603 i think the man in the attic is beau's 'inner child' who had self-esteem and was normal, but mona's abuse forced him into the attic (in beau's mind), leaving the broken 'personality' moving in the world. the giant penis is the boogeyman that mona's conception/father-killing story created in the 'attic' of beau's mind, and trapped it in the attic with his 'inner child'. a parent telling a child about their intimate emotional or sexual details and problems is known as 'emotional incest' and is another factor in beau's fear of sexuality, on top of his literal fear of dying, should he feel any sexual gratification. beau is terrified of his penis because his mother told him that it would murder him some day, if he ever made an intimate connection with another woman, because she resented his very existence and needed to feed her resentment with his guilt and shame, which was the driving force of mona's parental disposition. she purposefully robbed him of the ability to have normal human relationships because of her resentment and rage toward beau, simply for existing.

    • @annawshl
      @annawshl Год назад +7

      @@mckernan603 imo everything that happens in the attic is the boiling point of everything the movie has been saying up until that point about beau's emasculation via mona's resentment of beau's father; I also think it's Ari Aster's attempt to reinforce the absurdity of the film to keep it in the dark comedy realm - his father is literally a giant dick.

    • @QuikVidGuy
      @QuikVidGuy Год назад +6

      Its also possible that he didn't coerce her at all and she's only saying it because she's in pain and wants to hurt somebody else, disconnect from everyone she could've loved. Pretend she had no control over any of it

    • @alexxx4434
      @alexxx4434 8 месяцев назад

      Giant dick in the attic represents repressed masculinity.

  • @FinnRyder
    @FinnRyder Год назад +33

    I'm so glad there's people like you who dig deep into this movie that is heavily misunderstood. I could talk about this movie for hours on end I think it's incredibly well made! Such a good analysis!! Amazing work!! :)

  • @miniyoshi576
    @miniyoshi576 Год назад +6

    I think this is the best breakdown I’ve seen so far of this movie

  • @skabbonica
    @skabbonica Год назад +25

    I went through this breakdown wondering how I hadn't found this channel earlier, and was totally shocked that it was only your fifth video. This is a brilliant analysis, from writing to editing. Needless to say you've got another subscriber, and I genuinely hope you see the kind of growth in viewership work like this deserves.

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +2

      That is very kind of you to say. I’m thrilled that people are enjoying the analysis. Thank you!

  • @popo6percent
    @popo6percent 11 месяцев назад +4

    I was completely aware that this movie is gonna be a journey and that I won't understand a single thing, but I still watched it so then I can see how capable people are to interpret movie by noticing small details, it always blow my mind. There's just so much chaos in that movie and this analysis just put everything together.

  • @Lee86THUNDER
    @Lee86THUNDER Год назад +32

    I cant help but think of this film politically. Government/elites are finding ways to control. It uses food, water, currency/banking system, technology, media, sex, pharma, court system and many other things to instill fear. Fear, the surface level theme in the film. Beau represents individuals who dont realize how we are manipulated by these things.
    The small themes throughout are the film are brilliant as well. Too many to list.

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +2

      Interesting point of view!

    • @thesoulbird
      @thesoulbird Год назад +6

      I'd suggest you read "The Body Never Lies" by Alice Miller if you have the chance. It's mainly about the unconditional respect we have towards our parents, even when they hurt or neglect us; but she also draws the comparison with how we give the same respect to authorities and governments, even though they traumatise us. It's a great read.

    • @whlewis9164
      @whlewis9164 Год назад +1

      I love movies that allow for this kind of alternate interpretation. It may not be the main perspective, but it is a pretty good metaphor.

    • @alexxx4434
      @alexxx4434 8 месяцев назад

      @@thesoulbird The correct order: parents traumatize us, we proceed in the society to respect authority.

  • @WinniesPapa
    @WinniesPapa Год назад +9

    Finally! A well thought out, quality breakdown of what I’d say is the most underrated movie of the year. This was awesome!

  • @sentientbean9853
    @sentientbean9853 Год назад +2

    Best analysis made for this film I've seen so far, thank you for all the work you've put into this!

  • @EmilyOnTheMoon
    @EmilyOnTheMoon Год назад +3

    this was such an amazing analysis of a beautiful film, i’m really happy to have randomly come across your channel and hope to see more video essays from you in the future

  • @cinemaghost3149
    @cinemaghost3149 Год назад +1

    One of the strongest breakdowns ive seen so far. Great work

  • @gavinstone9983
    @gavinstone9983 Год назад +4

    Super underrated video man, enjoyed every second of it

  • @jamesneese7663
    @jamesneese7663 Год назад +9

    Well done. Easy to understand and straightforward breakdown for a movie that is anything BUT straightforward!

  • @Rising_Starborn
    @Rising_Starborn Год назад +3

    Phenomenal video, well written, analyzed & edited. Subbed w/ notifs on, please make more of this!

  • @daniellebalouise9596
    @daniellebalouise9596 3 месяца назад +2

    Ari Aster watching this and thinking, "Damn, he really got me."

  • @CindyyyToon
    @CindyyyToon Год назад +2

    mind-blown by how little subs and attention your channel has, this interpretation was beautifully put together and it was really well edited, I loved it, thank you for making this wonderful video

  • @anerdiguess1029
    @anerdiguess1029 Год назад +14

    I’m at the part where you discuss Beau’s father and how Jeeves destroys and harms the representations of him, and I was just curious if you noticed that Beau’s father is named Harry and when Mina reveals herself to be alive she says to her clean up crew “Feed Harry”, acknowledging that the dad is still alive

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +5

      I think that might have been referring to the version of him in the attic. But I’m not sure!

    • @Goofy476
      @Goofy476 Год назад +1

      I remember her telling them "feed her to Harry" talking abt the dead woman

    • @Goofy476
      @Goofy476 Год назад

      I remember her telling them "feed her to Harry" talking abt the dead woman

    • @Goofy476
      @Goofy476 Год назад

      I remember her telling them "feed her to Harry" talking abt the dead woman

    • @Goofy476
      @Goofy476 Год назад

      I remember her telling them "feed her to Harry" talking abt the dead woman

  • @JosefinaQB
    @JosefinaQB 4 месяца назад +1

    the first hour of the film is my fav, the absolute chaos, the overwhelming amount of tiny details to look for in every frame- the fucking insanity of the ppl on the street - i want to live there, id also be so full of anxiety but i still wanna

  • @ariallen675
    @ariallen675 Год назад +1

    This is such an awesome dissection of this movie! Beau Is Afraid definitely takes you for a ride on a first viewing, and I had a lot of fun watching it since my friends and I are drawn to strange and weird media often. You provided a plot and thematic interpretation that was easy to follow, set a great mood, and cleared up a lot of loose ends I had when looking into the film.
    I’ve become a big fan of Aster’s work lately (sharing a name helps lol) and getting an in depth look like this into the layers of his works is incredible, keep up the great work! 🤟
    Also, all hail the Ladybug Man

  • @PeterCleff
    @PeterCleff 2 месяца назад

    This is one of the best videos on this movie. I loved every minute of the film and really enjoyed digging into it. But you pointed out a LOT of little details that I missed. You've gained a sub this day!

  • @lichen4802
    @lichen4802 11 месяцев назад +5

    My mum said her womb is the most expensive house I've ever lived in. She asked me when I will start paying for the rent. I said I had been paying for it since the very first day. She asked me whether I paid by cash or card. I said by card. She said she didn't have the impression. She asked me if I paid on credit. I said yes. She asked me when I plan to pay for it. I said after graduation. She said she supposed that I should pay for my lifetime. She asked me if I wanna be her son or change another mum in the next life. I didn't answer. I supposed she thought one life wasn't enough for paying her womb rent. I was not kidding, I truly believe that I've been paying for the rent for my whole F$$$ing life, by my whole F^^^ing body and heart.

  • @strisselstudios3932
    @strisselstudios3932 Год назад +7

    I havent seen this movie, nor did I know what it was about. Ive seen Ari Asters other stuff, but just didnt get around to seeing this because it wasnt in theaters near me.
    Having alot of unresolved childhood trauma pertaining to a horrid toxic relationship with my mother, this summary has devastated me. Im not a schizo or whatever the fuck beau is supposed to be, but the plot of this movies digs so goddamn deep into my psyche. Thank you for making this masterpiece of a movie summary/explanation.

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +2

      I highly recommend watching the movie, I think you’d get a lot out of it!

  • @LilChubCrafts
    @LilChubCrafts 11 месяцев назад +1

    Hands down, this is the best breakdown of this film I’ve seen so far

  • @jackkineke
    @jackkineke 9 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent. This film was simply too difficult to grasp on my own and this is by far the best analysis I’ve found. Thank you

  • @anonymousperson8211
    @anonymousperson8211 Год назад +1

    I am so impressed by this channel and eagerly await more uploads

  • @robertbaker3620
    @robertbaker3620 Год назад

    Holy hell dude. I was not expecting this breakdown to be so good. Very well done. 👏👏👏

  • @lanny2323
    @lanny2323 Год назад

    Great analysis, criminally under watched video. Commenting in hopes it blows up!

  • @jahipalmer8782
    @jahipalmer8782 Год назад +8

    My favorite read on this movie is the literal one, where everything you see is actually what happened. Yes, I know, it's the laziest read. For some reason this is the one movie where only looking at the top layer gives me the most enjoyment. Okay, so one more thing. The penis-shaped monster daddy, to me, makes me think of how a negligent mother would talk about her son's father to the son. She would say, "Your father's a dick," you know, to denigrate the father. So I see the penis-monster, I understand that she has said this to her son (even though it wasn't explicitly in the movie) and then I see that she was being literal in saying it. Like, know how in the OMEN the priest says that Damian's mom was a Jackel and everyone just thought that he was calling her a liar and a "loose woman." But then it turns out that the priest was being literal and his Damian's mom is for real a Jackel!? It's the same kinda thing. Maybe this movie makes me think more than I would like to admit...

    • @Airfriedfroglegg
      @Airfriedfroglegg 6 месяцев назад

      Or when single moms call their kids deadbeat dad “the sperm donor” turning him into nothing but a biological function.

  • @neyshagonzalez3866
    @neyshagonzalez3866 Год назад +1

    As someone who hasnt seen the movie but is watching this breakdown i got sooo into it! You absolutely sold me this movie.
    The Synopsis & breakdown was so beautifully done, I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything and was following along very well while multitasking (sorry 😅) thanks for helping explaining it. I can safely add it to a list of movies I can appreciate and connect with the story, even those out of my element/unfamiliar genres, and listen to the true meaning of a message.

  • @freddykruger8229
    @freddykruger8229 9 месяцев назад

    This is easily the best movie explanation I have seen. Just subscribed.

  • @sydneypearson7107
    @sydneypearson7107 Год назад

    This helped me understand the movie a ton better and was a wonderful watch - awesome job :) i consider myself lucky to be an early viewer

  • @billysmithdrums
    @billysmithdrums Год назад

    Fantastic breakdown and review dude honestly blown away

  • @koseyko6245
    @koseyko6245 Год назад

    Thank you for such a detailed breakdown! Definitely the best breakdown and interpretation

  • @tammytamsin7313
    @tammytamsin7313 Год назад

    This is a wonderful video.
    I hope you get more views and subs. Brilliant work here!!

  • @michaeljohnrawley
    @michaeljohnrawley 5 месяцев назад +1

    Just wanted to confirm that the maintenance man likely stole Beau's keys. He is later seen at Mona's funeral as one of the departing attendees.

  • @WobblesandBean
    @WobblesandBean Год назад +7

    This is a bizarre movie, and Patty Lupone did WAY too good at portraying an overbearing mother. Far too much like my mother. I never want to watch this brilliant film ever again.

  • @agentshillbot
    @agentshillbot Год назад

    Superb analysis, the best I've seen. I've now subscribed. 🙏

  • @MKateUltra
    @MKateUltra 9 месяцев назад

    Bravo! Loved this review, so beautifully done.

  • @Beinggreatfull
    @Beinggreatfull Год назад

    good vid man very detailed, loved it

  • @maline7497
    @maline7497 Год назад

    What a great analysis of this movie!
    I'm amazed by the details and insight you got. I was excited about the Movie because I love Ari Aster, but have been completely thrown off, when I watched it in the theater. I knew there was more to it than I catched on first sight, but I didn't watch it again because it felt like a three hour surreal nightmare on drugs wich I didn't understand.
    I think I will watch it again now. Thank you for your great work!

  • @IMOK130
    @IMOK130 Год назад +3

    Incredible work you’ve done here! It simply still boggles my mind how many closed-off people have discredited this film as meaningless drivel. Many of the analyses here I feel can be felt subliminally throughout the film and that’s this movie’s true power. We experience the guilt/shame/ambivalence/everything THROUGH Beau as the viewer. If you are open and receptive to this movie, I believe many of these insights you have eloquently and beautifully illuminated here, would reveal themselves to the viewer. Sadly many people do not wish to have their thoughts or ideas challenged, nor their faculties of mind stretched to play the detective, and derive meaning that isn’t just served to them on a silver platter. Although, personally I find the significance/message of this film gut-wrenchingly obvious, and wonder why it eludes so many people. Maybe our toxic societal notions of family, and the appearance of unconditional love for our parents is what keeps people from admitting that our relationships with them can be muddy, toxic, negative, or traumatizing. Anyway, just some thoughts after watching this powerhouse analysis! Thanks again. Cheers!

  • @fonsa2707
    @fonsa2707 Год назад +3

    Best analysis of this movie on the internet so far, very good job man

  • @mrpicky1868
    @mrpicky1868 10 месяцев назад

    the most coherent and true film recap

  • @hvnly6287
    @hvnly6287 4 месяца назад

    Wow, what a phenomenal deep dive. It’s almost like Ari A gave you all this information himself.
    The way you ended this analysis killed me

  • @Alina-sz4ko
    @Alina-sz4ko Год назад

    Wow. That was an amazing video! I’m sad it’s over :(

  • @dilarakaya9760
    @dilarakaya9760 7 месяцев назад

    great video! loved every bit.

  • @kleebaggins
    @kleebaggins 3 месяца назад

    Excellent quality video! Thank you!

  • @cawleydistephan5358
    @cawleydistephan5358 Год назад

    best analysis i’ve seen on this movie

  • @MBlast666
    @MBlast666 11 месяцев назад

    Dude only 500 subs? Criminally underrated hahaha great work

  • @vr4708
    @vr4708 Год назад

    This is such a good analysis!

  • @99bottlesofwine
    @99bottlesofwine Год назад +10

    Excellent video analysis! The lens of viewing almost everything that happens in the film literally was always so interesting, because it was all a product of Beau's mother's fragile sense of reality. How insane the events of the film are are *her* machinations. The monster in the attic could've been an animatronic just to deeply disturb Beau!
    Ari Aster loves telling movies (so far) where someone or something is pulling *all* the strings. So in this film, the person pulling the strings is some unstable, narcissistic billionaire mother pulling a huuuuuge Truman Show on her son. And like the Truman Show, the protagonists are kept contained through fear and orchestrated trauma, before rebelling against their fears, sailing off on a boat, and going where their controller cannot follow.
    Edit: To further the parallels with The Truman Show, in the play, Beau has this daydream of his potential life that could be an intentional parallel with Truman fantasizing his trip to Fiji. Truman also has quirky and adventurous fantasies (like when he pretends to be an astronaut) that he uses to escape his mundane life. So both of them use escapist daydreaming as an escape from their controllers.

    • @westernmonk6036
      @westernmonk6036 Год назад

      I agree! I'm wondering though, who in Midsommar was pulling all the strings? Nice catch!

    • @99bottlesofwine
      @99bottlesofwine Год назад +1

      @@westernmonk6036 The cult itself controlled everything, I believe! And possibly with the help of their God/Oracle that told them about the future-there was that tapestry near the start of the film that foreshadowed everything about to transpire.

    • @westernmonk6036
      @westernmonk6036 Год назад

      @@99bottlesofwine Ahh thanks!

  • @_aconite_cj_
    @_aconite_cj_ 8 месяцев назад +2

    Sorry I'm late but here's a tiny thing I interpreted differently: Elaine n Beau never fell in love *together*. Elaine, from the start, pushed him, to either kiss him or forced him to stay on bed while she was on top of him, raping him while he kept telling her to stop. I'm still watching the vid btw.

  • @melissaedwards8936
    @melissaedwards8936 Год назад +1

    THAT was AMAZING thank you for your point of view on this movie because I love it and I'm still finding hidden gems within the movie. ❤

  • @Adam-ic4nr
    @Adam-ic4nr 11 месяцев назад +1

    "In the end Beau was afraid only because Mona was terrified." Perfect.

  • @LyddieR
    @LyddieR Месяц назад

    Thank u for this video. I love Ari. Your breakdown is fantastic 😍

  • @benzur3503
    @benzur3503 Год назад +2

    The man at the end of the play claims to have been a nurse for Beau’s father. Beau imprints on that man being his father irregardless of their actual relation. The dissonance can either reinforce a delusional angle of interpretation on Beau’s journey to some degree, or that the man was Beau’s father and attempted to hide his real identity in fear of Mona’s seeming omnipotent wrath

  • @Fragga123
    @Fragga123 Год назад

    Awesome! I love this take!

  • @NavidonYoutube
    @NavidonYoutube Год назад +9

    Mona is a narc. and beau is her victim, I lived with such a female for 33 years. she is my wife.

    • @AlexLawSG
      @AlexLawSG 6 месяцев назад +1

      Why haven't you left yet? I know it's not that simple but, it's never too late. Take care of yourself man.

    • @NavidonYoutube
      @NavidonYoutube 6 месяцев назад +1

      it is about 7 months I left her and living alone, and just feel what is life in peace. yes you are right it's never too late even if only 1 day been left for living.

    • @AlexLawSG
      @AlexLawSG 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@NavidonRUclips Congratulations and good luck man.

  • @lifewriter7455
    @lifewriter7455 Год назад +2

    Ari Aster is the Metamodern version of Kafkaesque! Absolutely Genius. 😎🖤👍

  • @ehb2323
    @ehb2323 9 месяцев назад

    Thanks! Great analysis.Very useful!

  • @mahakala
    @mahakala 7 месяцев назад

    best analysis of the movie on youtube.

  • @Carlos-ff7rm
    @Carlos-ff7rm 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this point of view.

  • @KalispellBarbell
    @KalispellBarbell Год назад

    Commenting for the algo. Well done man, this was great

  • @tomasstastny1598
    @tomasstastny1598 3 месяца назад

    Beau is like Jiob, in situation, where everything is "inteligently designed" to make him goes thru what he must.

  • @saklof296
    @saklof296 Год назад

    Please make more movie analysis vids. This was a banger

  • @matthewsmith3322
    @matthewsmith3322 Год назад

    Great reading of the film!

  • @westernmonk6036
    @westernmonk6036 Год назад +4

    Does anyone have any idea about the scene in the first act wherein Beau was trying sleep, but that neighbor kept sliding notes underneath his door to 'keep it down'? I'm not sure what to feel about that or how it might relate to Mona's manipulations?

    • @Joesmho23
      @Joesmho23 11 месяцев назад +4

      I think that and the loud music was a part of the plan to make him wake up late. She would screw him over but expect him to do everything he can to get to her

  • @ayecab
    @ayecab Год назад

    Damn. Great job on this.

  • @lemonkale649
    @lemonkale649 2 месяца назад

    “Beau was afraid, but only because Mona was terrified.” CHILLS. Probably the best video about Beau is Afraid

  • @wazzer912
    @wazzer912 Год назад +2

    I feel like a double feature of Beau Is Afraid and A Serious Man encapsulates the Jewish experience perfectly.

  • @nathanielball365
    @nathanielball365 8 месяцев назад

    This was beautifully explained!! You deserve a hell of allot more subscribers my man!! You certainly got a new one here!! Incredible work!!!

  • @nonverbal-turtle
    @nonverbal-turtle 3 месяца назад +1

    I have a narcissistic mother so this movie was so fun for me. I'm so glad to myself that I am not docile anymore and do defend myself always. With people like mona and my mother, you gotta just leave them to live in their own delusion and move on to live your own life. It is hard tho fr, people like that stalk and harrass you and you always gotta get the police involved, dont even read the shit they send you. Let them implode on their lonesome. :)

  • @KidFresh71
    @KidFresh71 8 месяцев назад

    There are several layered interpretations for this masterful, trippy movie. To me, the movie symbolizes the many stages of grief one goes through, when mourning a the death of a toxic person (specifically, a son mourning a controlling mother's death). Feelings are conflicted.It's complicated. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

  • @mirandachaffin1626
    @mirandachaffin1626 7 месяцев назад +1

    This is the best beau essay I’ve seen. Too many get bogged down by the emasculation of him, and rather than recognizing that as a tool Mona uses for control, they project masculinity as the main aspect of life he was left out of. The life he longed for was in ways the hypermasculine American dream, but the love he felt with his sons is the true crux of what he missed out on because of her. He wanted love and family! Also, it’s really important that you didn’t just dismiss the attic clone as a real twin, which I’ve heard a lot of. My only remaining question for you, is how do you feel about Mona being a surrogate for capitalism itself? Most interactions with her feel simultaneously incredibly personal, and incredibly distant. Media and ads and stuff? We’re all afraid and stuff? Idk thanks so much for this video though!

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  7 месяцев назад +1

      That’s an interesting idea! The idea that Mona being a surrogate for capitalism is definitely a possibility as well. The intense control that she exerts over Beau, as well as literally having a hand in everything that he owns or uses, to a cripplingly degree.
      What’s great about this film is that there’s so much room for metaphor in literally everything, and so many layers of interpretation, but there are no definitive answers. In that way, Beau’s journey, becomes a sort of rorschach test for the viewer.

    • @mirandachaffin1626
      @mirandachaffin1626 7 месяцев назад

      Love your rorschach analogy, and I think you’re so right!! Thanks again for this incredible content, I’m definitely a fan after this video!

  • @alyssagreen7142
    @alyssagreen7142 Год назад +10

    This is definitely the best explanation and i identify with it the others don’t seem as a analytical or intellectual but by that I mean In the way I saw it, not as in their theories are dumb I’m just saying we saw it the same way and this is amazing thank you for sharing ❤

  • @tinyxylophone5182
    @tinyxylophone5182 7 месяцев назад

    Great video

  • @ibjmac187
    @ibjmac187 7 месяцев назад

    Excellent breakdown. I tried watching one other in-depth analysis before this one but the dude was so arrogant I turned it off after about 5 minutes. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Best of luck in 2024 and beyond!

  • @Drakengard82
    @Drakengard82 Год назад +1

    This was one of the best movies i've seen this year.
    But it was also a 3 hours emotional flashback to me and i never want to see it again haha
    i don't think it's a matter of 'everything is in his head' personaly
    it's really putting on screen the feelings of an adult traumatized by his childhood, feeling attacked/endangered by everything and his reality is shaped by his abuser.
    The arena scene really got to me, as i completely related to the whole metaphor.
    He has no defense, only his mother's interpretation of the events is the right one.
    He ends up gaslighted to death, drowning in his own shame.
    I honestly had tears of exhaustion in my eyes while watching the frantic jumps of the boat.
    The distant screams of the mother putting on a show and playing the victim were just terrifying to me.
    I can't believe it was marketed as a comedy.
    The theater wasn't packed but there was still a lot of people.
    I didn't hear one laugh. But this is why i go to the cinema. I love movies like that.
    But yeah, once is enough

  • @westernmonk6036
    @westernmonk6036 Год назад +5

    Another thing about the water motif in the movie is that when he was frantically trying to take his pills which required water, his buildings water supply suddenly stops working. Idk if this has anything to do with Beau's relationship with water but I feel like it means something or plays into that.

    • @ahobimo732
      @ahobimo732 11 месяцев назад +1

      Water is often an archetype for primordial chaos (for example, in flood myths), but it's also the source of life.
      So... running / hiding from chaos cuts us off from life itself.
      Just a hypothesis. No idea if it works here.

  • @Fpink202new
    @Fpink202new Год назад

    This was amazing

  • @jackhackett80
    @jackhackett80 Год назад +2

    Beau is afraid of his mother is about the simplest answer

  • @boodahbass
    @boodahbass Год назад

    expertly done

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene Год назад

    Holy Crap man, you're a review machine.

  • @partycitydumpster
    @partycitydumpster Год назад +1

    Just spent this whole video going "Ohhhhhhh"

  • @stucoofoo
    @stucoofoo Год назад

    Well done.

  • @jenniferleanio
    @jenniferleanio 6 месяцев назад

    The actor who plays young Beau looks so much like Joaquin when he was in Parenthood!!

  • @LiamDeeley
    @LiamDeeley Год назад

    Wow. Fantastic video. This is the only one like it on your channel. Are you planning on making more similar to this one?

    • @ryanthetimetraveler
      @ryanthetimetraveler  Год назад +1

      I’m working on something right now, should be done in a few days!

  • @tanjabuchholz5314
    @tanjabuchholz5314 Месяц назад

    Everyone needs to realize that you owe your parents NOTHING and you are free to have a life away from them if they are harmful to you. As soon as you can, please go live your life

  • @jtp2r
    @jtp2r 5 месяцев назад

    Damn good breakdown.