If Jamie Lee Curtis can win a best supporting actress Oscar for EEAAO then Patti LuPone DESERVES to be recognized by the Academy for this performance! 😭
Jamie won because EEAAO was a much more appealing and acclaimed film. The academy is probably not gonna come anywhere near this (just like Hereditary and Midsommar, unfortunately)
Generational Trauma, Anxiety, Manipulation & Schizophrenia perfectly encapsulates the events in the movie One of the most unique films ive seen in a while!!!
Excited to see your reaction! I loved this movie and it had me in tears by the end. As someone who struggles immensely with anxiety so much of this movie felt too relatable. Honestly it felt like someone finally was able to put to the screen what i feel in my head
Right!? Ironically, I was terrified to watch this because I love Ari Aster for his ability to emotionally ruin you, and the concept sounded way too close to home. Thankfully, the comedy made the tragedy bearable, and seeing how absurd the world would be if my anxieties were all true sort of defanged them slightly.
no joke, I cried the entire three hours, the film really opened my eyes to the horrible truth that my own mother isn't too different from beaus and I felt like my entire life was a lie, I'm still iffy on whether she even loves me or not
It really did feel very Truman Show-esque. The way her company’s branding was everywhere, and every character (except the actor troupe) seemed under her employ. She plays an almost godlike figure in his world, pulling all the strings and holding him accountable for absolutely everything. Ari Aster finally got to make the movie he’s been wanting to make for decades & obviously doesn’t care much whether people like it or not 😅
what i took from this movie is that its not necessarily even his own anxiety riddled perception of the world, everything is removed from reality, its just a surrealist journey
No it isnt. He lives in an LA, SF, Chaz type democratic city. Its only barely exaggerated in the film, but it touches on all the key points (crackhead homeless stabbings, cops not enforcing the law etc). The sequence in the woods is him hearing a story and imagining himself as the protagonist, only to realize that he lived without purpose or meaning because he never reproduced and had children. In the play, the man loses his family and seeks them forever, and even though its tragic, he at least had a purpose in life unlike Beau who was partially robbed of it by his medicating, upbringing etc, and due to his own weakness and fear (which made him susceptible to being misled). The ginat dick is a reference to single mothers that poison their children against their fathers and tey to keep them away “for their own good” because “your dad is a giant dick”.
I don't think you know what surrealism means haha, both things can be true, I would be inclined to agree with you but I would say your interpretation is just an emotionally charged bastardized conservative version of whatever political commentary that was in this movie even if it's not really explicit, the personal is also political, my advice to you is try to see art through a different lense than politics, it could be good for you
@@saades4018 “its only your interpretation that the city he lives in is basically a CHAZ. Its only your opinion that tye woods sequence is about him realizing that he lost out on the meaning he was experiencing while imagining himself as the father! Thats, like, your opinion man”. No, its pretty obvious if you arent a retarded shitlib. A shitlib would just think the “woods sequence didnt have to do with anything, and everything that happens is just in his mind because he is schitzophrenic”
I've seen it twice now, and you are really smart - a keen observer. You noticed things I didn't either time I watched it. Something occured to me while watching your reaction. You said this movie is so far removed from Aster's other two films, but all three have to do with cults, in complete control, manipulating the protagonist. Mona is the cult leader in this one, controlling all these people - Elaine, Tom, the people in Beau's building. His apartment builidng is MW, as his his TV Dinner and just about everything in his place. Unimaginable levels of control, just like the Paimon cult and the Hargas in Midsommar. Ari Aster is a fascinating guy.
my god.. the first scene proves beau's dad didn't just die on top her, this movie's brilliance is astonishing, why can't all modern movies be as complex?!
Ari Aster is a genius, and I found his Beau Is Afraid movie a living nightmare through the main character's perspective, actually last year I was mugged so I've experienced panic attacks, fear and post-traumatic stress and that's why I feel identified by Joaquin Phoenix's character, which kept me hooked on the movie all the time. Therefore, if Beau is afraid, so am I.
I believe the mom lied to Beau about his dad from the time he was a kid. She painted the dad as a monster who likedly used and left her. Hence the giant monster in the attic. He “died” the moment Beau was conceived - aka he lost interest in her as soon as she became pregnant.
You know I actually came up with a similar but vastly idea to beau is afraid before i even watched it, it's a film called "A Loveless Man" about a depressed writer named Jack Loveless who takes his reluctant girlfriend Harmonie and jovial best friend Clancey on a road trip to find his three abusive fathers and kill them, meanwhile his thirst for vengeance slowly takes away everything and everyone he loves in the process
I'm gonna be honest when the therapist suddenly and out of nowhere asked if beau wanted his mom dead, I felt a tad suspicious but brushed it off and when it was revealed he was helping her, I was like "I fucking knew it! never trust therapists!"
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!
The more I try to figure this film out the more frustrated I get, so I just tried to enjoy myself through the journey. Thankfully, this movie had some hilarious moments to keep me entertained (I'll never listen to Mariah Carey the same way again)
I don't really know why but it reminded me of Synecdoche.. Cool reaction even though you speak over a lot of the dialogues..? but you still caught more stuff on your first watch than I did so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like how the credits is just like a mirror of the audience leaving the movie theater
If Jamie Lee Curtis can win a best supporting actress Oscar for EEAAO then Patti LuPone DESERVES to be recognized by the Academy for this performance! 😭
Lmao, remember Hereditary?
Jamie won because EEAAO was a much more appealing and acclaimed film. The academy is probably not gonna come anywhere near this (just like Hereditary and Midsommar, unfortunately)
Oh YAS
@@MamadNobariright lol
Generational Trauma, Anxiety, Manipulation & Schizophrenia perfectly encapsulates the events in the movie
One of the most unique films ive seen in a while!!!
It’s a surrealist nightmare of disappointing mommy. With sprinkles of family trauma and psychotic episodes in it. 11/10
makes me sad honestly.. I know my mom's disappointed in me, she wanted a masculine football star, not a femboy film critic/filmmaker :(
@@AbrasiousProductionswho cares, at the end of the day it’s your life, you should live it the way it makes YOU happy, not anyone else
Excited to see your reaction! I loved this movie and it had me in tears by the end. As someone who struggles immensely with anxiety so much of this movie felt too relatable. Honestly it felt like someone finally was able to put to the screen what i feel in my head
Right!? Ironically, I was terrified to watch this because I love Ari Aster for his ability to emotionally ruin you, and the concept sounded way too close to home. Thankfully, the comedy made the tragedy bearable, and seeing how absurd the world would be if my anxieties were all true sort of defanged them slightly.
no joke, I cried the entire three hours, the film really opened my eyes to the horrible truth that my own mother isn't too different from beaus and I felt like my entire life was a lie, I'm still iffy on whether she even loves me or not
It really did feel very Truman Show-esque. The way her company’s branding was everywhere, and every character (except the actor troupe) seemed under her employ. She plays an almost godlike figure in his world, pulling all the strings and holding him accountable for absolutely everything. Ari Aster finally got to make the movie he’s been wanting to make for decades & obviously doesn’t care much whether people like it or not 😅
I honestly love it, I consider it the modern L'Avventura (1960)
What song is playing during the sex scene again? It can't be a coincidence
what i took from this movie is that its not necessarily even his own anxiety riddled perception of the world, everything is removed from reality, its just a surrealist journey
No it isnt. He lives in an LA, SF, Chaz type democratic city. Its only barely exaggerated in the film, but it touches on all the key points (crackhead homeless stabbings, cops not enforcing the law etc). The sequence in the woods is him hearing a story and imagining himself as the protagonist, only to realize that he lived without purpose or meaning because he never reproduced and had children. In the play, the man loses his family and seeks them forever, and even though its tragic, he at least had a purpose in life unlike Beau who was partially robbed of it by his medicating, upbringing etc, and due to his own weakness and fear (which made him susceptible to being misled). The ginat dick is a reference to single mothers that poison their children against their fathers and tey to keep them away “for their own good” because “your dad is a giant dick”.
@@ilearncode7365 💀💀💀💀💀
I don't think you know what surrealism means haha, both things can be true, I would be inclined to agree with you but I would say your interpretation is just an emotionally charged bastardized conservative version of whatever political commentary that was in this movie even if it's not really explicit, the personal is also political, my advice to you is try to see art through a different lense than politics, it could be good for you
@@saades4018 “its only your interpretation that the city he lives in is basically a CHAZ. Its only your opinion that tye woods sequence is about him realizing that he lost out on the meaning he was experiencing while imagining himself as the father! Thats, like, your opinion man”. No, its pretty obvious if you arent a retarded shitlib. A shitlib would just think the “woods sequence didnt have to do with anything, and everything that happens is just in his mind because he is schitzophrenic”
What I got from it was "wow.. my mom's a lot like mona, apparently she's not as loving as I thought.. bitch :("
I was missing David Lynch, then this came out. And I loved it.
I've seen it twice now, and you are really smart - a keen observer. You noticed things I didn't either time I watched it. Something occured to me while watching your reaction. You said this movie is so far removed from Aster's other two films, but all three have to do with cults, in complete control, manipulating the protagonist. Mona is the cult leader in this one, controlling all these people - Elaine, Tom, the people in Beau's building. His apartment builidng is MW, as his his TV Dinner and just about everything in his place. Unimaginable levels of control, just like the Paimon cult and the Hargas in Midsommar. Ari Aster is a fascinating guy.
MW... The apartment building, the TV dinner, THIS MOVIE. Mona controls all of it.
my god.. the first scene proves beau's dad didn't just die on top her, this movie's brilliance is astonishing, why can't all modern movies be as complex?!
Ari Aster is a genius, and I found his Beau Is Afraid movie a living nightmare through the main character's perspective, actually last year I was mugged so I've experienced panic attacks, fear and post-traumatic stress and that's why I feel identified by Joaquin Phoenix's character, which kept me hooked on the movie all the time. Therefore, if Beau is afraid, so am I.
This film will go down as one of the most bizarre cult classics in cinema history
I believe the mom lied to Beau about his dad from the time he was a kid. She painted the dad as a monster who likedly used and left her. Hence the giant monster in the attic. He “died” the moment Beau was conceived - aka he lost interest in her as soon as she became pregnant.
You know I actually came up with a similar but vastly idea to beau is afraid before i even watched it, it's a film called "A Loveless Man" about a depressed writer named Jack Loveless who takes his reluctant girlfriend Harmonie and jovial best friend Clancey on a road trip to find his three abusive fathers and kill them, meanwhile his thirst for vengeance slowly takes away everything and everyone he loves in the process
We belong together will never be the same 😂
I'm gonna be honest when the therapist suddenly and out of nowhere asked if beau wanted his mom dead, I felt a tad suspicious but brushed it off and when it was revealed he was helping her, I was like "I fucking knew it! never trust therapists!"
Amazing use of that SpongeBob clip 🤣
2nd favorite movie of 2023!
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!
The more I try to figure this film out the more frustrated I get, so I just tried to enjoy myself through the journey. Thankfully, this movie had some hilarious moments to keep me entertained (I'll never listen to Mariah Carey the same way again)
I don't really know why but it reminded me of Synecdoche.. Cool reaction even though you speak over a lot of the dialogues..? but you still caught more stuff on your first watch than I did so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hate seeing Joaquin injured and hurt 😢❤🩹 I forgive him for Joker 2. 😂🫶