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! 😭

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

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 😅

It’s a surrealist nightmare of disappointing mommy. With sprinkles of family trauma and psychotic episodes in it. 11/10

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?!

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

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.

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.

Amazing use of that SpongeBob clip 🤣

This film will go down as one of the most bizarre cult classics in cinema history

We belong together will never be the same 😂

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!"

2nd favorite movie of 2023!

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)

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!

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)_/¯