This movie was 3 hours of raw and consistent "he just like me fr" moments.

This is such a good break down and made me notice that Beau’s mom is 100% a narcissist. She is incapable of feeling empathy for him, she sees herself as this perfect mother and amazing business woman, she uses people for her own gain, she fails to see how her own toxicity is pushing Beau away, furthermore she doesn’t even think she’s done anything wrong and feels it’s everyone else who’s out to get her, and at the root of it all she’s a deeply insecure and unloved person. When you view Beau’s relationship with his mom through the lense of living with a narcissist it makes so much more sense. Even the trial at the end of the film is just a literal representation of trying to defend yourself against someone who sees everything you do as a personal attack to them

The tragedy of Toni's situation is that her parents would never have loved her a fraction as much as they love their dead son, because their dead son is a permanently perfect child. He died a hero (at least according to society's notion that all soldiers who are killed in action are heroes) and now being dead, he can never disappoint his parents, he can never betray them. Consequently, Beau empathizes with Toni more so than anybody else whose path he crosses because he knows what it's like to never live up to parents' impossible standards.

The Last words made this amazing analysis even better. "In the end Beau was afraid, but only because Mona was Terrified". 🎉

Something about that scene where he crosses the street for water and that homeless guy immediately follows him frantically asking for help… got my anxiety in high gear. That feeling of how you’re in desperate need of a fix yourself and you feel and hurt for others asking for help. Pure chaos in the head.

this was a masterclass of a breakdown oh my god

This is undoubtedly the most accurate representation of the movie I've seen. People always skip over the part where he is called selfish by the play narrator and confesses cowardice. He then wakes up to horns and lives out a fairytale. He is guilty, of not standing up for himself, of cowardice. Only through reflecting on this was he able to grow beyond it. Compared to the end scene where his self-respect is thrown off a ledge and when the horns blare he begs for help from his mom, falling back into the same trap. Which reminds me - if you rewatch the part where he first enters the play company and listen to the actors previewing they are foreshadowing the ending. Seem to be speaking about the cave 'if it were a trap? Or is it an opportunity?...' the scene even ends with stage lights mimicking the projectors in the arena and Beau having water dumped on his head (drowning). I also wonder what the boat engine represents at the end. Clearly he has had some motivation pushing him forward through the constant cycles of abuse from his mother. What broke down here? His sanity?

I’ll expose a dumb bias I had in avoiding this video due to low view count but this is by far the best video on this movie on KZfaq. Great work! Another point that I think might be overlooked in the few analysis I’ve seen is that Beau is an only child. As one myself, I can definitely relate to Beaus anxiety over disappointing your parent, with no one to share that emotion with. It’s also interesting to think that Toni is also an only child after the death of her brother.

I really don’t want to have children, no matter how much I try I see so much of my parents in myself. I don’t want my children to go through anything that I did and I feel like it’s unavoidable. I can avoid it all together if I don’t have kids. This is a great analysis by the way, so much better than all the other ones who make it about themselves. I feel like you see this movie for what it is and not what you want it to be.

The trial reminded me so much of the trial at the end of Pink Floyd's the wall. And the whole film was an act of the song Mother of the same album

This film is just one giant intrusive thought

Wait… this is the best Beau Is Afraid analysis on here. Seriously, thank you for covering this film. It’s not an easy one to cover. Subbed!

I think this is the best breakdown I’ve seen so far of this movie

First of all, this was a fantastic overview and unpacking of the film. Second of all, I saw Beau is Afraid with closed captions on at a nearby theater and in the opening scene of Beau's birth Mona says "you made me have him!". I think that his father is alive and perhaps pressured or coerced Mona into motherhood, resulting in all the resentment both of Beau and his father that we see from Mona during the film, as well as her desperation to contain/repress Beau's sexuality/masculinity.

I'm so glad there's people like you who dig deep into this movie that is heavily misunderstood. I could talk about this movie for hours on end I think it's incredibly well made! Such a good analysis!! Amazing work!! :)

this was such an amazing analysis of a beautiful film, i’m really happy to have randomly come across your channel and hope to see more video essays from you in the future

I was completely aware that this movie is gonna be a journey and that I won't understand a single thing, but I still watched it so then I can see how capable people are to interpret movie by noticing small details, it always blow my mind. There's just so much chaos in that movie and this analysis just put everything together.

One of the strongest breakdowns ive seen so far. Great work

Best analysis made for this film I've seen so far, thank you for all the work you've put into this!

Phenomenal video, well written, analyzed & edited. Subbed w/ notifs on, please make more of this!

Well done. Easy to understand and straightforward breakdown for a movie that is anything BUT straightforward!

Super underrated video man, enjoyed every second of it

I went through this breakdown wondering how I hadn't found this channel earlier, and was totally shocked that it was only your fifth video. This is a brilliant analysis, from writing to editing. Needless to say you've got another subscriber, and I genuinely hope you see the kind of growth in viewership work like this deserves.

mind-blown by how little subs and attention your channel has, this interpretation was beautifully put together and it was really well edited, I loved it, thank you for making this wonderful video

Finally! A well thought out, quality breakdown of what I’d say is the most underrated movie of the year. This was awesome!

I cant help but think of this film politically. Government/elites are finding ways to control. It uses food, water, currency/banking system, technology, media, sex, pharma, court system and many other things to instill fear. Fear, the surface level theme in the film. Beau represents individuals who dont realize how we are manipulated by these things. The small themes throughout are the film are brilliant as well. Too many to list.

Holy hell dude. I was not expecting this breakdown to be so good. Very well done. 👏👏👏

This is one of the best videos on this movie. I loved every minute of the film and really enjoyed digging into it. But you pointed out a LOT of little details that I missed. You've gained a sub this day!

Excellent. This film was simply too difficult to grasp on my own and this is by far the best analysis I’ve found. Thank you

the first hour of the film is my fav, the absolute chaos, the overwhelming amount of tiny details to look for in every frame- the fucking insanity of the ppl on the street - i want to live there, id also be so full of anxiety but i still wanna

Great analysis, criminally under watched video. Commenting in hopes it blows up!

This is such an awesome dissection of this movie! Beau Is Afraid definitely takes you for a ride on a first viewing, and I had a lot of fun watching it since my friends and I are drawn to strange and weird media often. You provided a plot and thematic interpretation that was easy to follow, set a great mood, and cleared up a lot of loose ends I had when looking into the film. I’ve become a big fan of Aster’s work lately (sharing a name helps lol) and getting an in depth look like this into the layers of his works is incredible, keep up the great work! 🤟 Also, all hail the Ladybug Man

I am so impressed by this channel and eagerly await more uploads

Hands down, this is the best breakdown of this film I’ve seen so far

Thank you for such a detailed breakdown! Definitely the best breakdown and interpretation

This helped me understand the movie a ton better and was a wonderful watch - awesome job :) i consider myself lucky to be an early viewer

This is easily the best movie explanation I have seen. Just subscribed.

This is a wonderful video. I hope you get more views and subs. Brilliant work here!!

As someone who hasnt seen the movie but is watching this breakdown i got sooo into it! You absolutely sold me this movie. The Synopsis & breakdown was so beautifully done, I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything and was following along very well while multitasking (sorry 😅) thanks for helping explaining it. I can safely add it to a list of movies I can appreciate and connect with the story, even those out of my element/unfamiliar genres, and listen to the true meaning of a message.

“Beau was afraid, but only because Mona was terrified.” CHILLS. Probably the best video about Beau is Afraid

Fantastic breakdown and review dude honestly blown away

Superb analysis, the best I've seen. I've now subscribed. 🙏

Bravo! Loved this review, so beautifully done.

What a great analysis of this movie! I'm amazed by the details and insight you got. I was excited about the Movie because I love Ari Aster, but have been completely thrown off, when I watched it in the theater. I knew there was more to it than I catched on first sight, but I didn't watch it again because it felt like a three hour surreal nightmare on drugs wich I didn't understand. I think I will watch it again now. Thank you for your great work!

Ari Aster watching this and thinking, "Damn, he really got me."

I’m at the part where you discuss Beau’s father and how Jeeves destroys and harms the representations of him, and I was just curious if you noticed that Beau’s father is named Harry and when Mina reveals herself to be alive she says to her clean up crew “Feed Harry”, acknowledging that the dad is still alive

Wow, what a phenomenal deep dive. It’s almost like Ari A gave you all this information himself. The way you ended this analysis killed me

good vid man very detailed, loved it

the most coherent and true film recap

Excellent quality video! Thank you!

THAT was AMAZING thank you for your point of view on this movie because I love it and I'm still finding hidden gems within the movie. ❤

great video! loved every bit.

Thank u for this video. I love Ari. Your breakdown is fantastic 😍

Best analysis of this movie on the internet so far, very good job man

Dude only 500 subs? Criminally underrated hahaha great work

Wow. That was an amazing video! I’m sad it’s over :(

best analysis i’ve seen on this movie

Thanks! Great analysis.Very useful!

This is such a good analysis!

Incredible work you’ve done here! It simply still boggles my mind how many closed-off people have discredited this film as meaningless drivel. Many of the analyses here I feel can be felt subliminally throughout the film and that’s this movie’s true power. We experience the guilt/shame/ambivalence/everything THROUGH Beau as the viewer. If you are open and receptive to this movie, I believe many of these insights you have eloquently and beautifully illuminated here, would reveal themselves to the viewer. Sadly many people do not wish to have their thoughts or ideas challenged, nor their faculties of mind stretched to play the detective, and derive meaning that isn’t just served to them on a silver platter. Although, personally I find the significance/message of this film gut-wrenchingly obvious, and wonder why it eludes so many people. Maybe our toxic societal notions of family, and the appearance of unconditional love for our parents is what keeps people from admitting that our relationships with them can be muddy, toxic, negative, or traumatizing. Anyway, just some thoughts after watching this powerhouse analysis! Thanks again. Cheers!

Awesome! I love this take!

I havent seen this movie, nor did I know what it was about. Ive seen Ari Asters other stuff, but just didnt get around to seeing this because it wasnt in theaters near me. Having alot of unresolved childhood trauma pertaining to a horrid toxic relationship with my mother, this summary has devastated me. Im not a schizo or whatever the fuck beau is supposed to be, but the plot of this movies digs so goddamn deep into my psyche. Thank you for making this masterpiece of a movie summary/explanation.

Thank you for this point of view.

Just wanted to confirm that the maintenance man likely stole Beau's keys. He is later seen at Mona's funeral as one of the departing attendees.

This was beautifully explained!! You deserve a hell of allot more subscribers my man!! You certainly got a new one here!! Incredible work!!!

My mum said her womb is the most expensive house I've ever lived in. She asked me when I will start paying for the rent. I said I had been paying for it since the very first day. She asked me whether I paid by cash or card. I said by card. She said she didn't have the impression. She asked me if I paid on credit. I said yes. She asked me when I plan to pay for it. I said after graduation. She said she supposed that I should pay for my lifetime. She asked me if I wanna be her son or change another mum in the next life. I didn't answer. I supposed she thought one life wasn't enough for paying her womb rent. I was not kidding, I truly believe that I've been paying for the rent for my whole F$$$ing life, by my whole F^^^ing body and heart.

best analysis of the movie on youtube.

This is a bizarre movie, and Patty Lupone did WAY too good at portraying an overbearing mother. Far too much like my mother. I never want to watch this brilliant film ever again.

Commenting for the algo. Well done man, this was great

Damn. Great job on this.

Please make more movie analysis vids. This was a banger

Great reading of the film!

My favorite read on this movie is the literal one, where everything you see is actually what happened. Yes, I know, it's the laziest read. For some reason this is the one movie where only looking at the top layer gives me the most enjoyment. Okay, so one more thing. The penis-shaped monster daddy, to me, makes me think of how a negligent mother would talk about her son's father to the son. She would say, "Your father's a dick," you know, to denigrate the father. So I see the penis-monster, I understand that she has said this to her son (even though it wasn't explicitly in the movie) and then I see that she was being literal in saying it. Like, know how in the OMEN the priest says that Damian's mom was a Jackel and everyone just thought that he was calling her a liar and a "loose woman." But then it turns out that the priest was being literal and his Damian's mom is for real a Jackel!? It's the same kinda thing. Maybe this movie makes me think more than I would like to admit...

Excellent video analysis! The lens of viewing almost everything that happens in the film literally was always so interesting, because it was all a product of Beau's mother's fragile sense of reality. How insane the events of the film are are *her* machinations. The monster in the attic could've been an animatronic just to deeply disturb Beau! Ari Aster loves telling movies (so far) where someone or something is pulling *all* the strings. So in this film, the person pulling the strings is some unstable, narcissistic billionaire mother pulling a huuuuuge Truman Show on her son. And like the Truman Show, the protagonists are kept contained through fear and orchestrated trauma, before rebelling against their fears, sailing off on a boat, and going where their controller cannot follow. Edit: To further the parallels with The Truman Show, in the play, Beau has this daydream of his potential life that could be an intentional parallel with Truman fantasizing his trip to Fiji. Truman also has quirky and adventurous fantasies (like when he pretends to be an astronaut) that he uses to escape his mundane life. So both of them use escapist daydreaming as an escape from their controllers.

Ari Aster is the Metamodern version of Kafkaesque! Absolutely Genius. 😎🖤👍

"In the end Beau was afraid only because Mona was terrified." Perfect.

There are several layered interpretations for this masterful, trippy movie. To me, the movie symbolizes the many stages of grief one goes through, when mourning a the death of a toxic person (specifically, a son mourning a controlling mother's death). Feelings are conflicted.It's complicated. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

Beau is like Jiob, in situation, where everything is "inteligently designed" to make him goes thru what he must.

Everyone needs to realize that you owe your parents NOTHING and you are free to have a life away from them if they are harmful to you. As soon as you can, please go live your life

expertly done

This was one of the best movies i've seen this year. But it was also a 3 hours emotional flashback to me and i never want to see it again haha i don't think it's a matter of 'everything is in his head' personaly it's really putting on screen the feelings of an adult traumatized by his childhood, feeling attacked/endangered by everything and his reality is shaped by his abuser. The arena scene really got to me, as i completely related to the whole metaphor. He has no defense, only his mother's interpretation of the events is the right one. He ends up gaslighted to death, drowning in his own shame. I honestly had tears of exhaustion in my eyes while watching the frantic jumps of the boat. The distant screams of the mother putting on a show and playing the victim were just terrifying to me. I can't believe it was marketed as a comedy. The theater wasn't packed but there was still a lot of people. I didn't hear one laugh. But this is why i go to the cinema. I love movies like that. But yeah, once is enough

Great video

Damn good breakdown.

Excellent breakdown. I tried watching one other in-depth analysis before this one but the dude was so arrogant I turned it off after about 5 minutes. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Best of luck in 2024 and beyond!

This was amazing

I am very impressed with this analysis and inspired to go and see this movie. I find many subjects, relevant to my own life, #Bogoslowsky 🦁🤴

Mona is a narc. and beau is her victim, I lived with such a female for 33 years. she is my wife.

This is definitely the best explanation and i identify with it the others don’t seem as a analytical or intellectual but by that I mean In the way I saw it, not as in their theories are dumb I’m just saying we saw it the same way and this is amazing thank you for sharing ❤

Wow. Fantastic video. This is the only one like it on your channel. Are you planning on making more similar to this one?

Well done.

Excellent analysis. What is the name of this somber, beautiful tune going on in the background?

This is a beautiful study of this film and you did your research. Will you post more movie analysis in the future

The man at the end of the play claims to have been a nurse for Beau’s father. Beau imprints on that man being his father irregardless of their actual relation. The dissonance can either reinforce a delusional angle of interpretation on Beau’s journey to some degree, or that the man was Beau’s father and attempted to hide his real identity in fear of Mona’s seeming omnipotent wrath

This is the best beau essay I’ve seen. Too many get bogged down by the emasculation of him, and rather than recognizing that as a tool Mona uses for control, they project masculinity as the main aspect of life he was left out of. The life he longed for was in ways the hypermasculine American dream, but the love he felt with his sons is the true crux of what he missed out on because of her. He wanted love and family! Also, it’s really important that you didn’t just dismiss the attic clone as a real twin, which I’ve heard a lot of. My only remaining question for you, is how do you feel about Mona being a surrogate for capitalism itself? Most interactions with her feel simultaneously incredibly personal, and incredibly distant. Media and ads and stuff? We’re all afraid and stuff? Idk thanks so much for this video though!

Holy Crap man, you're a review machine.

Does anyone have any idea about the scene in the first act wherein Beau was trying sleep, but that neighbor kept sliding notes underneath his door to 'keep it down'? I'm not sure what to feel about that or how it might relate to Mona's manipulations?

I feel like a double feature of Beau Is Afraid and A Serious Man encapsulates the Jewish experience perfectly.

My 14 yr old son has anxiety and this movie is terrifying.

Hey there, this was an AMAZING video, and i loved every bit of it. I loved how deep you went into this analysis and how extensive it was. I look forward to more! There are some things i still cant figure out which i was hoping maybe you could is, when Beau and Elaine were having sex, why did Elaine die after she orgasmed? I get what happens with Beau in that scene, just not Elaine. Did Mona somehow kill her? Or did Beau? Why do you think Elaine has the exact same puffy red eyed look Toni had when she died. Could there be a correlation there? Or is it just how this movie shows dead people? Around the fate of the father, what do you think the “caretaker” really meant in that moment in the forest. Was it a moment in Beau’s subconscious that tried bringing back some semblance of his father back into his mind before Jeeves kills him? Its also odd that the caretaker says “I fed him and took care of him” when this could clearly have been his father, could it just be an in-universe explanation for his existence? Finally, do you think there’s something to be said about the fact that Jeeves succeeded in killing his father in the theater section, but not in the attic? I’d really appreciate your thoughts on this too, and you earned a new subscriber! Keep doing what you’re doing!

thank you