we watched Beau is Afraid

[@ManCarryingThing]

woman carrying afraid

[@youknowwhoiam2771]

It’s unfair to review a movie with Joaquin Phoenix in it because his acting always elevates the quality of it no matter what

[@DoctorXander]

Napoleon has entered the chat

[@Stormsign]

Amazing review. Missed opportunity to release the movie on Mother's Day.

[@clairemitch4301]

One for all time! Love this film

[@breadguyyy]

when i left the theater i hated it but now that ive sat on it i think its pretty great. i just didnt feel the comedy bits because of the tone and, like you said, it was just so so draining. also didnt help that i watched it late after a long day and by the end it was just sooo depressing. great movie though also the surrealist play bit is an all time great sequence

[@marmalar]

I do wonder if your take is gonna be mine someday. I hated Hereditary for so long after an initial watch and then gave it another go after watching and loving Midsommar -- but I have such hatred for this film it is hard for me to ever see it again.

[@jaredsarnie3712]

Another theory I have! Hereditary has a ton of hidden plot details that you can uncover, explaining how the evil overbearing mother and her league of covert followers planned her own demise and then elaborately orchestrated every aspect of their child's ritualistic death. In presentation, Hereditary could not be more different, but from a bare bones premise it's actually SUPER similar to Beau is Afraid. With this in mind, here's my theory of the secret details of the mother's plan. WARNING: Given the nature of the film this sexual and gross. Anyways: Beau is given a new drug produced by the mother's company by the therapist at the start of the film. Shortly after we see Beau get into his tub and you get a brief glimpse of his testicles and they are HUGE. Later, Nathan lane diagnosed him with some bizarre swelling testicles condition, so clearly there is SOMETHING going on with this man's balls. My theory is that the drug caused this swelling and made Beau's testicles literally deadly. When he kills his childhood love by having sex with her, the mother seems completely unsurprised and is actually ready with assistants to remove the body. I think this drug that the mother instructed the shrunk to give Beau is the cause. The fictional drug, Zypnotricyl is said to have severe side effects in the film which can actually affect ejaculation and cause death. Ultimately, the psychosexual aspects of Beau's deep depression is more pressing that the how and why, but I think from a pure plot level that's what's going on

[@obscure.reference]

i dont remember anything about the drug’s side effects but i’m pretty sure the implication was that his balls were swollen from never having ejaculated in his life out of fear from the story his mother told him about his father dying on top of her. the woman dying on top of him is just a literal or inverted manifestation of that, like most other things in the film just an absurd anxiety brought to life to torture him, somewhat implied to be deliberate at the hands of his mother.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

Christ that's horrible... She's honestly a monster

[@alechats5184]

gotta be one of my favorite videos from you guys. such insightful commentary, please keep on with the great content // beau is afraid to me is like a 8/10

[@jaredsarnie3712]

There was a twin! The mother makes a big point of highlighting that the "dream" is actually a memory. In saying that, she's directly negating Beau's own dream-logic interpretation of the bath scene. Beau believes he's dreamily viewing an alternative version of himself in the third person, as one can only do in dreams. His mother is saying "no that was literally real." He goes into the attic and sees his brother, the braver him that was imprisoned. This scene represents a fork in Beau's predestined life. He becomes the son who cannot reject the control of his mother, in contrast to his brother who sought autonomy and was punished for it. The other substantiating evidence of the brother comes in the funeral video. In the eulogy, Beau is referred to as the "sole SURVIVING son". Why would he be called this, if not imply that there was another, non surviving son. So within the reality of the movie, I do believe he had a brother, but regardless the brother is less of a character and more of a representation of Beau's lack of autonomy and perpetual state of imprisonment as a subservient repressed child

[@zandermetrakos2637]

I definitely believe that the man in the attic is a metaphor for something similar to the monster, but I don't think I believe he has a brother. With the way mona acts and treats beau I think it make more sense that he is an only child

[@Tamacat388]

I think its more interesting to take everything in the film at face value. Its all a metaphor of course but in the universe of the film its also real. That thing of locking your child up in a room for decades is also something rich parents have done in real life so that image of the emaciated brother really freaked me out.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

Yup sounds like me, my mom's not so different from Beaus :(

[@curtis25920]

Glad you guys finally watched it. Nadia has one of the best interpretations of the film I have heard. Elevated my already very high opinion of the film.

[@josephreusch]

This is by far my favourite movie of the year so far. 10/10 for me. Interested to hear your thoughts.

[@AbrasiousProductions]

I completely agree, it's a masterpiece and anyone who says otherwise clearly didn't understand it, I actually almost died of a heart attack while watching it, would've been a great film to die to honestly

[@PandaPulse4]

I didn’t like Aster’s previous films but absolutely loved Beau. My favorite movie so far for the year

[@videoslv4626]

Team Carrying Afraid

[@sawyer351]

Really a disturbing film, but i have thé impression WE went throught the life of a whole man, and it IS really fascinating, love it or hâte it it doesn't leave you unchanged, loved it

[@yvannoss]

Charlie Kaufman + Mother! + Slither = how did he get 35 million dollars to make this???

[@literallymebasd]

On what planet it is slither

[@jevinday]

I watched this movie earlier this year, it has stuck with me so much. I relate to Beau SO much, as absurd as it is I feel like it's so realistic, that scene where he has to walk across the street is how I feel every time I walk outside. Maybe it's a problem that I related so much hahahaha. I would rather watch something original like this than another sequel or remake any day

[@vincenthalfprice9930]

Woman Carrying Man Carrying Praise for Underseen Masterpiece I saw Beau is Afraid practically alone - I think two or three other random strangers were scattered within the IMAX theater where I saw it on a Tuesday afternoon in Central Fla. I'm pretty sure two of them walked out around an hour into the movie, but me and one other guy seated 5 or 6 rows away from me stayed through all three hours and a good portion of the end credits, and both the movie and the experience creeped me out in the way that it felt like I walked into a haunted house at a carnival that was genuinely haunted. I couldn't shake this movie and couldn't decide if I hated or loved it for weeks, so I took in a second viewing three weeks later after I caught another movie at an early Monday matinee. The extremely dark humor, dreamlike tone and astoundingly blatant use of foreshadowing - **soft spoilers,** something that would normally be a background detail in any other movie is placed in the foreground during a tracking shot within the first 10 minutes that completely foreshadows the theme and conclusion of the story, and I didn't give it a seconds thought the first time I watched it - so I left the theater seeing it twice and thought I was crazy, I gave the movie a 10 out of 10 and truly considered reaching out to a therapist before I found this channel and heard Jake discuss it with Nadia in this review.

[@griffinbrookscommentary]

My grandma loved Hereditary so when she saw this was Ari Aster she wanted to watch it with me and… yeah she only made it about halfway. I went back and finished it and I absolutely loved it.

[@andrewdaniel9337]

Fantastic review guys!

[@batty9]

Great review! 😊

[@laupoke]

Loved this movie so luch, idk why everyone ignores it

[@danilopinioni]

Beau Is Afraid is a masterpiece 10/10 Ari Aster is a genius

[@marmalar]

This movie is horrible, I hated it so much and really rooted for Ari Aster because I loved Midsommar so much.

[@danilopinioni]

@@marmalar you are stupid

[@tmtmtg]

It took me a week to rate this movie because I just couldn't figure it out at all

[@marmalar]

I will say, I am very Beau-like with my neurosis and mother-resentment, but I personally hated this movie soooo much. I respect differences of opinion and enjoyed hearing Nadia and Jake's takeaway from watching it.

[@swellson8133]

I wish I had a similar experience to you guys, but I just felt nothing. Everything felt so artificial (which might of been part of the point) but it goes to such exaggerated places throughout that its hard to relate to the cartoonish and overly cynical characters.

[@radioguy1667]

I feel like I'm gonna be the only person on earth who considers this a comfort movie. There's gonna people under here saying that they found it comforting too... isn't there

[@danielbarrero2815]

i love your videos!

[@crazyfantakevideos3574]

❤❤❤

[@bigbiggoblin2873]

What did you make me watch

[@daninogil]

brazilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll when...........

[@halfstaffmusic]

i thought this film was brilliant and i wish more people saw it that way

[@krulidn]

"has to be watched multiple times". I can't think of anything worse, honestly. I was just so bored because everything that happened ultimately seemed random and for nothing - some fake out or dream sequence or false interpretation. So what would I care about anything happening? It honestly just seemed like throwing random stuff together and merely inferring meaning behind everything so people can project meaning onto it themselves and be impressed with themselves for interpreting something that insists it's profound.

[@TheSongwritingCat]

I think there's a place for this, but I just don't need any more hostile, unpleasant, alienating, assaulting films from male directors. It's just not for me personally. Every word of this convinced me I would not like this movie.

[@clumsydad7158]

i almost rented this, but i guess i'm skipping this for now ... i found Midsommar kind of original but also kind of 'meh'

[@daninogil]

imagine if someone edited all of ari aster films and short films into a 3 hours feature and that is beau is afraid. the "best" version of them but it is still all of them. I liked this movie but still getting di!@s in your face for 3 hours can be exhausting. if you want a shorter version of it watch unicorn wars.

[@michaelmacias8]

You can say it, it sucked. if it was a nightmare it would of been a lot better.

[@franta7294]

i disagree

[@marmalar]

Yeah, I vehemently despised this movie, but I will agree opinions are unique and we can all have differences. Still love this channel and appreciate their analysis.