Beau Is Afraid: What Really Happened With That Ending?
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Recurring nightmares, manipulative mommies, and twisted dive into fantasy. "Beau is Afraid" isn't necessarily meant to make sense, but let's try to untangle what happened. Major spoilers.
#Movie #Ending #Scary
Reality vs. fantasy | 0:00
Beau's biggest fear | 1:06
Imagined family | 2:06
Idolizing the dead | 3:07
Shouldering the blame | 4:00
A tale of two Beaus | 4:45
Daddy issues | 5:27
Virginity and death | 6:15
Mona the manipulator | 7:01
Trial of a lifetime | 8:03
Drowning in ambiguity | 9:07
Voiceover By: Dexter Manning
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one theme consistent in all of Aster's films, is the idea of a person or group of people being manipulated by a seemingly harmless entity.
Correct it’s called a cult
@@mattmissig8625 yes but in beau there was no cult
or the theme of family trauma
@@music143250 yes and in hereditary it was both family and a cult.
Family as cult
I love the ending. This is the right ending for Beau, whose plea for help was totally being ignored with silent, nobody seems to care, everyone sees him as an object and worse still - judging. Him, alone on the sinking boat, knowing that at anytime he would die, helpless, then when it did, we the audience stare in shock, wondering why. The exact same question we should ask in today society. There are people who need and ask for help, but instead we judge them, then just watch them drowning and died.
Ending hits so hard. When it says "written and directed by Ari Aster" you're just like damnnn
I know right...thought it was pretty cool how the credits had people leaving in the film and theatre...I felt at the end that last moment he found some type of closure or clarity in at least knowing that no one is going to help him that he needs to face reality head on
Just deciding to accept that right in his last moment...very happy with that ending
the ending is very impressive thing, I agree, very strong, very deep and you feel this fear and this sense of how hopeless life can be for someone, even if you always believe in good thing only
That ending hit me like a ton of bricks, Beau screaming and pleading for help only for everyone to watch it as entertainment and judge him until he dies and everyone goes on with their life. Very relatable movie & Joaquin did an amazing job
@@MisterRawgers also this film depicted me how the unwilling and non-character person looks like, and it’s very sad to see how he hopelessly try to struggle with his brutal and manipulative mother
P.s. I had expected that it would be a movie about coming through your fears, such a motivational movie before, but in fact… you know
Guy at my screening just yelled “what the Fuck” when the credits started
That was me
fair enough
As someone that goes through some crazy social anxiety, the first half of this movie had me super unsettled.
Yes
Good lord yes. And then once I was broken it threw the play, the mum reveal, the attic and the boat scene at me. This movie was anxiety on film. It's so good.
You forgot a hint Looper ! In Mona’s mansion, there’s a portrait of her made with the faces of her employees. Some of them are… the mad neighbors of Beau in the beginning !
Nathan lanes character is in that photo
Everyone reviewing this movie missed this and it annoys me haha
@@nirenberg190 oh shit, really?? That's so creepy. Even sadder knowing this wife got cold feet and tried to help Beau.
Actually if you listen to Mona sattorney at the end Beau is the bad guy in the film.That he is selfish towards his mother and towards others.That is true because Beau always hides behind pressure and guilt.He confessed that he knew that his mom was alive yet he had sex with a woman on her mom s bed on purpose.She also lets his friends go through her mum s underwear.Her mum is a wealthy woman so she is the one who arranged for Beau to be disturbed at night so that he would oversleep,then she also arranged for his luggage and keys to be stolen.She does this to test Beau s love for her.If he will go on and visit her mum regardless of his troubles.She then arranges for the surgeon to accomodate Beau at his house.Beau must get to the funeral but he keeps on subjecting himself to the excuses of the surgeon.That was the test to see if Beau would fly to her mothers funeral besides her wounds and the surgeon s recommendation not to go.Toni said to Beau "you failed the test" because the funeral was overdue but Beau continued to delay to go.Another selfish side of Beau was that he took Toni s bed and Toni slept on the couch.He could have refused and slept on the couch himself.So beau was selfish and inconsiderate but kept on hiding behind his fear.
Hell even the dude who sold him the mother statue is there
Spoilers!: Roger totally had to be in on it, there was a timeline of the company posted on one of the walls in the house, Roger is in one of the pictures on the wall. It was a quick shot. But it was when Elaine was zoomed in on.
Great find
that's why the wife told him to "stop incriminating himself"
He was he was employed by Mona inside Mona’s house when beau is looking at the picture of all her employees he’s seen in one of the pictures
@@jae5103YESSSS
EDIT: BUT good find on the poster, I didn’t catch that. I mean yeah, they literally say he was in on it at the end at the trial lol. The “lawyer” of whatever tf he was next to the mom brings it up when they got him to ask if he wanted to leave that night but Beau being beau and being too nice and scared to stand up for himself said no that they can just leave tomorrow morning because he didn’t want to be bothersome
Beau's mom had his keys stolen to make his trip impossible. But, later she blamed him for making up the story of the keys being stolen.
Mona, Beau’s mother is a CEO of a mega corporation; who controls every aspect of Beau’s life in a “Truman Show” like way. Mona being a narcissistic or a psycho/sociopath, thinks every relationship is an object or tool to be used; including her own children. Mona’s company logo is on everything in Beau’s apartment, including on Beau himself. Narcissist and antisocial people abuse their victims in a cycle; which overtime cause their victim’s identity to be eroded, their emotions disconnected, and doubts about their own reality. Beau spends the whole film “incriminating” himself for simply exiting. Until the very end, he’s pleading with Mona to take him back thus starting the cycle of malignant narcissistic abuse over again. The only way out of this abuse is to complete cut contact; which is what Beau’s older brother and “big dick” father did. Mona holds this guilt/shame of the truth, like a weapon, over Beau’s head “in the attic.” Finally until Beau can realize what’s happening and defend himself, which he’s capable of doing, he’ll forever be trapped in Mona’s abusive cycle.
so its a kind of squid game with some twist covered in 2-3 hours
The living complex on Mona's wall was Beau's apartment, a picture of Beau in his apartment the day his mom "died" was hanging on her wall as well, and the photo of her with everyone on it is a picture of her and all her employees (almost everyone we've seen in the movie up until that point was working for Mona). Ari said the entire film is basically about guilt, so I'd imagine it's almost like a Trueman show-esque judgement day. My theory is that he's paranoid-schizophrenic or has psychosis due to past trauma and he isn't a realiable narrator. By the end I think he's already dead and instead of Mona coming back to life she was also dead maybe? I have no idea
I wish I was smart enough to articulate like you but I'm simple yet 100% agree with your take lol.
that living complex was also a rehab facility of some sort, its starnge that beau was living there, maybe he was addicted to something at some stage, even the guy covered in tattoos was in one of those pictures however he had less tattoos in the photos
@@ssusggus Yeah that part was strange too, maybe it's a facility for mental health as well as addiction, or just low income housing with resources
The comments on this movie really seem to highlight who truly understands what it means to live with constant anxiety vs those who who view anxiety as a temporary state of mind
I think Beau was always afraid of dying, but at the very end, he suddenly realised that it is not so bad, he made peace with himself and accept death with open embrace
This movie really puts you in another’s shoes as if you’re experiencing Beau’s circumstances while at the same time you’re a witness wondering what’s happening and what could or would you do. This was definitely needed, especially in our reality… this was a masterpiece!!! I’m sure Ari will land plenty of awards for his hard work ethic, and dedication to deliver such a powerful film with many messages!
I genuinely dont think the boy she put in the attic was Beau. it was his twin.
as Beau enters the funeral the eulogy mentions mona loving her "sole surviving son" or something of the sort, implying there was another who didn't, I believe that she actually pulled an old "flowers in the attic" on her other son and left him up there for his insolence, telling the world he had died.
I also reckon this would be a huge part in why Beau Is both so worried of her approval and so traumatized as a person
I feel like it was the brave version of Beau held captive along with his sex life
The only problem is that the film directly says that it was Beau, not his brother
I don’t know about that. The movie illustrates that it’s Beau all malnutritioned in the attic
@@jesse1008 I mean that's a possibility, but it's never outright stated that he's only ever been in the attic, just that he was forced up there by his mother.
I'd like to take the thing in the attic literally, it's more fun that way...
Going off of the theory that Roger's family was in on it and that Beau had "failed the test", remember Roger had asked him "Oh is it cool if we drive you tomorrow" because he had surgeries that afternoon? But then Beau remained silent and Roger just interjected with "THANKS BUDDY FOR BEING A TROOPER, TOMORROW IT IS" or something like that? I think that was the test he failed. Beau never spoke up and it was sometjing he was guilt tripped for in the last scene
Them testing if the new drugs worked?
@@ThecrazyJH96 The mom testing Beau to see if he would be more insistent on leaving after being asked by Roger if it was ok if they left tomorrow. Beau failed because he remained silent. We know also that Roger was working with the mom, which is evident by Roger appearing as one of Mona's employees in the list of employees on her wall and Grace giving Beau hints that he is being watched.
@@ThecrazyJH96 Ultimately the leading theory I've had myself and a lot of people I know that have seen the movie is that this whole movie is about how far a mother would go to guilt her child. Knowing that Ari Aster has made movies like Midsommar following a real life breakup he had, it isn't out of the question to see that he has an interesting way of adapting his own personal traumas into an exaggerated depiction for the big screen. But throughout the movie, everything in Beau's universe is manufactured by his mother(The food he eats is made by MW, the place he lives in is MW, the people he meets throughout the movie is MW such as Roger). You also see that this whole time Mona had been watching him through hidden cameras in his apartment, which you see pictures of in her house, as well as listening in on all of his therapy sessions. Even with this in mind she still throws all of these things Beau's and guilts him for being unable to overcome these obstacles in the end. If Mona has been constantly watching Beau, wouldn't she have seen that Beau actually did lose the keys and not blame him for lying about it? There's a lot of ways to think about and interpret the movie but my leading judgement is that since the more is more along the lines of a dark comedy, that this was just a dark but also funny at times way of portraying that type of mom and son relationship, since it is also shown throughout Beau's life and childhood that his mom likes to constantly guilt him and test his love for her.
I love this movie because it makes you think. After watching it, it is all I have been piecing together lately. The beginning ages like wine when you stop to think. Everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. But not *too* wrong. The medication doesn't kill him without water for a brief bit, the police officer doesn't shoot at him until he starts trying to run, and doesn't hit a single shot, he survives the food truck strike just for the next act, and it continues from there. Beau is practically invincible until his trial.
Because none of it actually happens.
What a great analysis / theories.
I loved this film !
I don't think anything we see in the film is real or to be taken literally. It starts off foggy, with Beau dying while a lady is hysterical and emergency responders attend to him. As everything fades we hear a baby being born. At the end of the movie, after Beau is judged and implodes, we hear that same newborn baby, implying Beau has left one life of sadness, regret and fear, and has entered a new chance at life. Everything that happens in between the beginning and end, is an allegory of Beau's regretful life.
Or maybe beau's death is his sudden realization of how his mother completely fucked his life over, and he had the strength to completely cut her out of his life and try to build his own.
I can't believe I am saying this but this is probably my favorite Ari Aster film so far, Hereditary was great, Midsommar was pretty good but Beau is Afraid is on whole another level. What a film, this is cinema.
Upon entering the afterlife, Beau will probably end up in Limbo because it's probable that even God and the Devil were in cahoots with Mona.
this is the best analysis of the film
"A dad who's a real d*ck" had me dying HAHAHAHAHA
I think it was a metaphor for his dad basically being a sperm donor and nothing more than a thing that created him inside his mother. His Mom confirmed this in that weird scene in the room where she says as much. I definitely laughed out loud when that giant dick and balls were being stabbed haha.
This is the best review I’ve seen so far. I loved this movie.
One thing i didn't understand is why Mona let Beau to live in that dangerous neighborhood in the first place.
The crackheads were paid actors on Mona's payroll, meant to keep him anxious and scared of the world.
That was at least mostly a construction of hers. All/most of the scary people were her employees. Its shown very briefly in the end
It wasn’t an actually dangerous neighborhood it was his schema of the world where he isn’t protected by his mother
@@Slinkylinky179 there were definitely undertones of corporations creating hellish living conditions, like beau’s mom putting Beau in one, and then manipulating and gaslighting the context of one’s circumstances to make them seem like it’s a person’s own fault. Just watched it, need to flesh this out.
@@Dondo1 yeah, I didn't take really any of the movie literally, except for maybe the opening therapy session. I figured the trial at the end was some sort of personal guilt trip. I didn't think the film was trying to be overly complex.
This whole movie was a giant metaphor of a very troubled person with generational trauma and an overbearing mother. It’s simply artful way of executing it. If you don’t like it. Cool whatever. But I loved it.
PLOT TWIST: Beau died after minutes of laying in the bathtub. It was suic*dal. The following scenes are merely his imagination of all his suffering as being treated as a guinea pig for his mother's pharmaceutical experiments, and he did not even know his mother was using him for medicine experiments. Those pills he was taking are what cause him to get even more paranoid and anxious, tho he had already been paranoid since then because of his mother's abuse towards him. The therapist? That one was working for his insane mother. He keeps giving Beau pills that are merely for experimental purposes. You may also wonder why Beau lives in a sorta rehab facility, well, his mother owns that and she thought it would be better if Beau lives there so that, she could check on him. Yeah, his mother is the sole villain. Wonder why the following scenes had gotten weirder and kinda hypothetical after the bathtub scene? Well, that's how a dying brain - losing oxygen tends to work. Everything then goes hypothetical or hyperbolic. Beau does not have kids and he thought of having kids while he was dying thinking of how his life would turn out if he had. Remember the flood which caused him and his family to separate? The presence of the flood basically means that he was starting to drown in the bathtub at that time. And remember the flashbacks where a little boy was being scolded by her Mom and that's from the point-of-view of someone who was in the water, that's basically Beau himself in the bathtub remembering the past. And the ending, the boat resembles the bathtub itself, and him being glued to the boat literally means that he was in his last breath in the bathtub. He couldn't escape from the bathtub since his body can't grasp for air anymore thus, him glued on the boat. And when the boat capsizes, that's when he dies in the bathtub. You should have realized how the element 'water' was used so many times in the movie, which symbolizes he was in the water all the time - dying there. The stated 'Beau's adventures' in the trailer literally symbolizes the flow of his dying mind. The 'dozens become hundreds, hundreds become thousands' states how insane a dying mind could think, thus the following scenes have gotten hyperbolic or exaggerated. No doubt, this film is straight-up spectacular!
there were so many elements of water in the movie. Actually the part where the daughter kills herself i think the paint she used was blue.
@@bmans1 I watched the movie last night and yes the paint was blue.
I love how Aster Juxtapositions beautiful scenes with deep psychological horrors.
My opinion on this movie, your seeing Beau's life through his eyes, as a person with metal illness. Not giving away spoilers, the movie hits hard on how "we rather feed a fish than feed a human on the street." This movie is a vision of the world seen through a person struggling with mental illness.
As far as the lines between what's real and what's not... I'm surprised nobody brings up the "fun new drug" he was prescribed at the begining of the movie
Saw it last night and freaking loved it
her outburst at the end (to me) seemed to only be for herself and to get attention. she didn't start until it was too late or make any attempt to spare or save him.
There are so many wildly “Improbable” events & circumstances that this must be an hallucination, but what is it all rooted in, what is The significance of The tracking ankle bracelet ? Is he a prisoner in a mental institution ?
This movie gave me brain damage.
the Truman show was exactly what i was thinking about when i reached the finale, and tbh i was a bit let downed cause i absolutely loved Ari Aster's originality in his previous movies .
The ending bears strong resemblance to the ending of "Inside" a game by Playdead Studio, both very Meta
That ending was like that song with Phil Collins In The Air Tonight 😊
Does anybody else also remember seeing what looked to be a homeless man in the attic when Beau meets his "dad"?? I was wondering about that. Surely saying that it was just a homeless person would be too convenient.
The homeless man was him...the courage version of him that get stock in the attic. Is the same actor...dress like their kid versión
Nothing in this movie past the first 10 minutes or so is supposed to be taken literally. It’s supposed to put us in the mind of a mentally ill person having a psychotic break.
Loved this movie
I couldn't tell what was reality and what was in his head lol
What many reviewers seem to overlook as that Beau feels guilty because he actually dislikes his mother. And who wouldn't?
I feel terrible for Parker Posey’s character! 😂
I wish she was in more of the movie.
the ending was too heavy-handed. felt like i was watching Ari Aster release after edging for three hours. worth the watch as there were lots of enjoyable and entertaining bits. mostly the visuals and style kept my interest.
ps. the narration of this video is audio sandpaper
WHAT IS EVEN REAL IN THIS MOVIE?!
That’s the thing about anxiety 😉
@@alphabetmafia5439 no its not
@@braldoca as someone who struggles with diagnosed severe anxiety yes it does, while i don't really buy into this particular narritive, i do get why people think the whole movie is just beau having an anxiety attack about visiting his mother, it's why his immediate outside world *seems* so dangerous, if you have real anxiety you will actually drive yourself insane by feeding into your own deepest fears and insecurities about the outside world. easily one of my most favorite scenes was him panicking after taking his medication with no water and then being scared shitless from the first google result, i can't even begin to count how many times i've been there.
My interpretation of the ending is that Beau's guilt overwhelmed him so he drowned himself and his mother cried for him and her voice slowly fades as he loses consciousness.
I think the thing with his therapist is like when you sh talk someone and you get scared your phones called that person
I went in being extremely excited for this movie and left being completely frustrated. I’m all for metaphors and different concepts but this movie just screamed pretentious. $35 million in budget went into this film…. And this was the outcome? Ari Aster is a brilliant filmmaker and his past two films have been brutally beautiful but this movie was a complete let down I can respect the surreal approach and the broad scope of imagination, but the bloated running time destroys this movie.
Just got done watching the movie and immediately had to go looking for a video what the hell did I even watch
I think the most confusing thing about this film, is that Ari Aster somehow made something that wasn't even close to as good as his other films.
the act vibes
Weird movie
I think the sexual experience that Beau got at the pre-final part of movie was just his imagination, because the full dependence on his abusive mother and sense of guilty fully absorbed his mind and he’d never get rid of it, It’s very sad and very depressive thing. I remember that after watching it in cinema I was really shocked, and this sense lasted for 2 days and more, I think it’s the best movie I have watched since I started watching movies very often
I love a24 films and I love Ari Aster but this movie was just to much! There's so many things I liked about this movie but the story was just not there. We get 3 hours of Madness and get no answers or explanations and it just kind of goes nowhere. The last 20 minutes was the worst. I hate to say it but I feel this is a perfect case of pretension over story telling
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Film is very Kafkaesque
If I was Beau I would have opened the glass door before running through it
Did he ever survive childbirth? I can argue that he never lived or if he did then it's not what is apparent.
Worth watching in theaer?
No. I love Ari aster, but it just missed the mark for me. Bunch of funny lines & scenes, but wait till it comes out online. I wish I could've paused & picked it back up. Joaquin Peonix acting was great tho.
Yes. Especially in IMAX
@@prescottherbert9248 ass take
@@Thing-vx4fg ass take again
id say yes. i had fun in the theater with it tho there were only about 5 others and one walked out lol
Everyone asking what's real and ehats not are clearly missing the whole damn point . It's a fucking Salvador dali painting in motion
sequel
Chapter 2 " Beau V.S. Jason IN HELL! 😅
An ending worth of the Titanic
Movie is too long. But that ending was brilliant. Probably the only redeeming quality of the film.
Really fucking great movie.
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He was soo good in The Joker they had to put him in this movie
3 hours wasted completely
I waited to see this movie for so long because I love ari aster’s work. This movie was dumb I’m sorry
Weird ass movie
A bunch of people in the comments did not get the film at all. It’s one, big generalised anxiety attack. The ending means Beau drowned in his anxieties and paranoia.
Mf masterpiece
Well that cleared things up
NOT
The moment they entered the forest… it went downhill
Bc you took it literally
Everyone I’ve talked to seems to agree about that lol. Just dragged on a lot more than was necessary.
@@napndash yeah, literally garbage after that
@@patrickpenalver3986 5* analysis smooth brain
Like your brain
Actually if you listen to Mona sattorney at the end Beau is the bad guy in the film.That he is selfish towards his mother and towards others.That is true because Beau always hides behind pressure and guilt.He confessed that he knew that his mom was alive yet he had sex with a woman on her mom s bed on purpose.She also lets his friends go through her mum s underwear.Her mum is a wealthy woman so she is the one who arranged for Beau to be disturbed at night so that he would oversleep,then she also arranged for his luggage and keys to be stolen.She does this to test Beau s love for her.If he will go on and visit her mum regardless of his troubles.She then arranges for the surgeon to accomodate Beau at his house.Beau must get to the funeral but he keeps on subjecting himself to the excuses of the surgeon.That was the test to see if Beau would fly to her mothers funeral besides her wounds and the surgeon s recommendation not to go.Toni said to Beau "you failed the test" because the funeral was overdue but Beau continued to delay to go.Another selfish side of Beau was that he took Toni s bed and Toni slept on the couch.He could have refused and slept on the couch himself.So beau was selfish and inconsiderate but kept on hiding behind his fear.
Wrong
"Blame the victim."
Not worth the watch in the movie theater.
It was well worth the watch imo. This kind of movie is right up my alley
For me it was one of the best theatre experience and there definitely IS added value when watching this in theatre.
@@Czedaar totally agree. First movie I've ever seen alone in the theater and it was SO surreal. Just saw it for the second time yesterday and I think it's one of my new favorites. Although, I am one of the artsier types, so I probably enjoyed this film way more than one should haha
My theater experience was great--whole audience was roaring with laughter. We were lucky and got a good audience. I heard on twitter though some other people were not so lucky and people were yelling and ranting about the movie at the end.
The horror of *_'Beau Is Afraid'_* is the same insufferable pointless and tired ending like any other horror movies of the past two decades. I loved the protagonist's journey, but this movie confirmed this guy have no imagination nor deserving of the hype. Ari Aster is to horror as J.J. Abram to sci-fi, all gimmick and no substance. I am certain that this movie only appeals to hipsters, coffee-house philosophers and the internet version of the village idiots with delusion of self important.
Agreed,
Bad movie
Horrible movie.
Hated this movie, just because Ari is Ari we excuse bad storytelling because its “big IQ”. Be honest, if anyone else released this movie everyone would be hating on it but just because Midsommar and Hereditary exist WHICH WERE GREAT MOVIES then he gets a pass.
Sometimes you just gotta call a spade a spade. If a movie was boring and you have to jump through hoops to justify it. Its a bad movie. What makes this more inexcusable is the fact it was 3 hours long. This comment took as long as it take Ari to get to the point in this movie.
100% right, ari could’ve done a lot more with that 3 hours or simply removed the unneeded hour and a half
Facts it wasn’t very good. At certain points I wanted to walk out of the theater. Expected a lot more from Ari.
Perfectly said
Opposite view, was not a fan of Hereditary or Midsommar but I loved this film. Nonsensical plot is thematically relevant for the story of a traumatized man living with deep anxiety and things don't always make sense.
@@nessleepk sure you can make that into a skit or a 2 hour movie. Not a 3 hour movie that needs to be explained after the fact.
The movie needs to explain itself, or else expect hate.
One of the worst movies i have seen my entire life and i have seen 1000+ movies.
I just watched this movie, and this is my 4th video watched trying to figure out what was going on and im seeing some pretty logical valid points....however non of them explain where his dad was or if he truly was dead or what the actual fuck was in her attic i mean are we not gonna talk about the penis monster scene???
So why would beaus mom not want him to have sex and have a love life? Wouldn’t she want him to have kids so they can help run the MW corporation after she dies?
Because she will not longer women number 1 on his life... She also has momi isuess and she was desesperate for having inconditional love...when he burn she saw him like a control propiety. Actually is a problem that have a lot of mothers...they were empty and they put all their energy in their kids...to feel alive. But a kid is not a "chair" or something that is actually yours. So she is fighting to get the control in a toxic way
We both know this is a movies but it does highlight the fact that women don't use logic.