Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023) • Page 16

Ari Aster has such a fucked up mind and I'm here for every second of it. This was a riiiiiiiiiide

 

I’m starting to think Ari Aster has some deep psychological mother related trauma.

I liked it, funny and upsetting and trippy. Don’t know if i want to see it again but it’s definitely worth the experience

 

Starting to? Lol

 

yeah man totally normal mom stuff happening in hereditary, also in midsommar where the mom dies instantly, so typical

 

This was fine. The first act was much more interesting than the rest.

 

partner and i saw this last night. agree with the sentiments that i walked out frustrated, but woke up in love with it. definitely not my favorite of his (Midsommar tops the list for me), and i'm still upset that i had to do so much digging to understand certain parts (i guess this really is a film that deserves multiple viewings), but it's left me thinking all day and i'm really coming around to a lot of the elements i didn't like at first. definitely not perfect, but definitely doesn't deserve some of the hate it's getting. felt the same way i did when i first watched Inland Empire. very long and stuffed with so much content that you can't help but "want" to dissect.

two side notes: i think i might be in the minority here, but i think if any part of the film could've been cut down for time (which i honestly don't know how you can cut any more out of this film and not rob it of some of its importance), the various anxiety-inducing elements in the first act felt a tad redundant at times. second, while i think everyone did a great job with what they were given (especially Patti LuPone), Joaquin Phoenix was the least-impressive character in this for me. don't get me wrong, i love Joaquin, but adult Beau wasn't that engaging of a character for me. yet i also kind of think that's the point?

 

I just got off a flight after moving interstate and pretty much immediately got dragged out to see this with a bunch of people I mostly didn't know. either my best or worst movie going decision ever I'm not sure yet

I will say Hader absolutely destroyed me in this. the "I'm so sorry" instantly on the callback is maybe one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie

 

Saw this alone on Saturday as the guinea pig for my friends and girlfriend, so to speak. I had half a dozen texts when I got out asking how it was, which, I always hate with a movie like this because I always need to sit on it for a bit. I really needed to sit on this one a bit.

Hereditary and Midsommar are two of my favorite horror films of all time, and I'm pretty much in the "Aster can do no wrong" camp at this point. This is no exception. I didn't know if I loved it, but I haven't stopped thinking about it.

 

That's the best kind of movie imo - one that requires time to digest and gets stuck in your head

 

Nah, I only like movies that I like right away. Patience is for losers.

 

Movie was all over the place, but I really enjoyed it and loved certain sequences. Wasn't really into the final sequence with the boat, though. It felt like it dragged and the artificial aesthetic (I'm guessing it was all shot in front of a green screen) of it was distracting.

 

I do agree with scene, it felt like a momentum killer

 

But it's the final rug being pulled out from under Beau (and you)! Love that you're left as part of the arena audience at the end as the credits roll

 

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Beau PJs

 

Oh cmon, they know we all want plushie penis monsters

 

Those PJs do look cozy tho

 

Good price too actually.

 

I loved several sequences of this but I don't love it as a whole the same way I do Midsommar.

Paint scene was wild. Storybook scene was amazing.

I had the thought that most of this was a dream sequence but I couldn't place the cutoff, this seems like a logical point in the movie

 

My wild response to that is that none of it is a dream sequence, it's just an absurdist movie and everything is actually happening to Beau (which is why it's so funny and fucked up)

 

And I think it’s a mixture of both haha

 

This porridge is too hot, this porridge is too cold, etc, etc

 

Ya it definitely felt like a mixture of both where the line between reality and otherwise isn't always clear and isn't meant to be. It's a waking nightmare.

 

I mean ya I also kinda agree with this. That's why when I posted that originally I said it was kind of a boring take. But I also think when it's so clearly dealing with anxiety - something so rooted in one's own mind and not in reality - it's kind of nice to have the alternate take that well none of it's real.

For the purposes of the movie - I agree this all actually happened. For the purpose of making sense of the movie as a person in the real world - this took place in his mind.

 

They gave me a t-shirt version of the PJs when I went to the screening.

 

I can get behind this. It's schrodinger's dream.