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UNCUT PATREON EXLUSIVE - BEAU IS AFRAID (Patreon)

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2023-08-26 14:30:01
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I loved this movie... I don't know why

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Benny Ford

First and foremost, this is the best first watch of any podcaster or reviewer that I have found and I guarantee that I’ve been searching. You were so kind, patient and payed close attention to everything anyone could absorb in a first viewing. You allowed the film to be its own thing, work in different ways than most other movies. I never noticed you getting tense or overwhelmed. Reaction tagline; calm cool and collected. I wish Ari Aster could see this, I think he’d be delighted. I was betting you’d notice the red recording light of the camera on the desk. Boop! Blue is Beau’s character color. The thing I found the most mysterious is that you are aware of the game Zip, Zap, Zop. Hopefully the movie haunted you in thoughts for a couple days of curious pondering. No one else has responded so I’m about to use a lot of words. Before we get started we should get on the same page as to the major points of this movie. There’s a YouTube video made by a professional script-doctor that really gets the main point, concisely. Normally I wouldn’t mention other creators as I think it’s tacky to attempt to promote other creators on another creator’s channel or comments but this guy really earned this. He plays it off in the first half as many others have said but he flips it for the spoilers section and explains it exquisitely. The original upload was removed by Lionsgate. Then there was a re-upload. Then the original was reinstated. You should check it out before it vanishes again. Original upload: https://youtu.be/tj0GeceTiCU?si=ykCk_mW4rKW0kH1i Reupload: https://youtu.be/RG70F_U0aAw?si=GPLraPiIbrAA-IJ3 You caught on well that Mona employed “My-guy” Roger and that she was most likely behind this plot. That mosaic also depicts the homeless man in the long sleeve red button up shirt, the man who sells him the statue, the woman who sold him his ticket to My Beautiful Sweet Boys for $1, Elaine as an adult. The movie shows the therapist was employed by her. That she owns his apartment building and on that panel of his building is an employee photo of the man who picked him up hitchhiking. The mom was behind the chaos on the streets, the notes under the door, the music making him oversleep, his keys and suitcase being stolen, his landlady ignoring him, the water being shut off, the card being declined, the homeless invading and destroying his apartment. That was like Mona saying “Oh, what’s the worst thing that could happen if you flew to me and left your apartment unlocked? Well here you go, you should’ve went to the airport!” She’s behind teenage Elaine becoming this fixation that will never return. Every part of this is of her design. So much so that her company MW gets a production company logo right after the A24 logo. https://youtu.be/ELQd81co9WM?si=mGDlawZWj0KaRRsw Onto your questions that I will answer based on facts in the story and as much logic as possible. A few things still elude me, but they will be discussed in the future by many. This movie has guilt as a major theme. I wish Ari Aster would’ve just described the movie as “A guilt trip” because that is intended to be taken more than one way. Much like he described Hereditary as “A movie about a family going to hell.” Meaning falling apart as you go into the movie. Exiting Hereditary it means something else literally. Figuratively he feels guilt every step of his journey. Literally the mom is putting him trough a guilt trip for not loving her enough. Every time Beau feels guilt water is around or the sound of water is subtly in the sound design. Like the bathtub running when he is told of his mothers headless body that overflows with guilt. When he calls Mona’s lawyer and he shames him for taking so long and that they are waiting on him a lawn sprinkler goes off. Also all of these guilt cues are underscored by the score. The ocean around the cruise ship, the flood in the forest, bodies of water represented in most of the paintings on walls. He drowns in his own guilt upside down not breathing, he is born upside down not breathing, held upside down and activated by being slapped. Until then Mona’s concern is that he isn’t crying already. Our first shot of adult Beau he is in front of an aquarium feeding the fish. In the therapy session when the sound design cuts out the traffic noise it’s a jump cut to the end of the session. Though it looks visually like it’s not a jump in time. Beau should be afraid of that elevator. I’ve never seen a better case for a staircase. Not an answer, just an observation. Mona faked her death to prove time and time again that he would choose all these distractions over going to her especially in death, and a funeral that is on hold waiting on Beau. She has the trial in mind from the beginning hence the therapist writing “Guilty” which isn’t a note on his feelings, but rather thee verdict. The intent is to get him there for this trial. I’m not so sure she was thinking far ahead enough to realize he would die. She wanted to make him feel guilty for being the worst son that ever lived, caught up in her own turbo gaslighting. And why did the housekeeper Martha have to die. Well jump cut to teenage Beau on the cruise ship. Mona asks “Do you miss Martha, Beau?” He responds “Of course. I love Martha.” His mom out of major jealousy questions him with a watch your step boy attitude, “You. Love. Martha?” I’m sure her inner dialogue would be along the lines of, Martha has to die for this betrayal, I’ll make her work like a slave for a starvation wage for the next 30 years and then take her head. She just has that entrepreneur foresight. I fully presume the “Help Me” guy above his bathtub was scared up the wall by the spider. Toni was neglected right up until her death. Once she was dead her mother showed her love. Let’s rewind that. Before Grace tells him to turn to channel 78, off screen you can hear Grace on the phone saying “Look, I’m a mother too. But this wasn’t part of the original contract. …Well I just might have to...” and the call ends. Fast forward to Beau fast forwarding. At this point his fate is sealed. As Toni informs him “It doesn’t matter, you’ve already failed your stupid test!” Meaning he let Roger talk him out of going today and rescheduling for tomorrow. Hence the Stop Incriminating Yourself note. Maybe her security cameras are so advanced they can see the future, that thought is a little less logic and a bit more intuition based. Back to form. The dream/memory bathtub scenes. They evolve from Mona dressed in white squawking like a bird. Only after the forest scene with Penelope in her green dress, in the final recollection during his final knock out is teen Elaine in a green swimsuit for the only time and Mona in a green dress now. I need the costume designer to discuss that in an interview. I’m sure a psychologist could understand this or communicate it better with more education to back up the theory that Beau is having a third person, out of body experience to remember this in a “safer” way. There’s only one child. This was Beau at his bravest and the last time he would ever stand up to his mother or anyone else his entire life. The attic has 3 things that Mona has amputated metaphorically speaking from Beau. His braver self that would stand up for himself, his “dad” the dick monster which represents his dad as only one thing. Also representing Beau’s own dick, meaning his manhood, meaning never being allowed to orgasm or become a man. Jeeves, who took 40 bullets last time we saw him is back to represent Beau’s masculinity or lack of. I think the scene is put there to weed out the lightweight audience that would discard everything great about this movie for an absurd surrealist scene. How does Elaine die? Well she took a 48 year old load of backed up ..accomplishment. Another main point of the story is generational trauma passed down. It was so creepy with the grandmothers painting peering around the support beam in that scene. You caught that and I’m sure there was choice made to do that in the shot, it seems significant. Also you caught strangers in the distance observing the characters that I had never noticed. Side note Patti LuPone and Joaquin Phoenix acting is a clinic! After Beau visits the attic and is reintroduced to his ability to stand up for himself, his manhood, and his masculinity are all displayed when Mona is about to say the words, “I hate you!” Beau cannot hear HER say THAT to him. He snaps and strangled her. Not long enough to kill her, remember Sigourney Weaver held her breath underwater for 3 minute stretches. Besides Mona faked her death in the first act and this one looked so over dramatic and staged. Planting herself right into a glass box. If I was strangled I would not stagger toward the most dangerous object and aim my fall at it. I think she is alive for the trial as the lawyer and therapist are in attendance and they are not dead. Only while writing this right now am I wondering if Mona is actually God. All seeing, all controlling, unforgiving, judgmental god. That you could never love enough or be good enough for their approval. It would explain all of the unexplainable. If not a god at least a self made god of money and steamrolling every person in the world. Or maybe just a god complex. This is an ambiguous film and it would benefit from analysis from experts of Judaism, Greek mythology, therapists, Criterion collectors, and on and on and on. The background actors repeating one thing over and over is an homage to Jacques Tati whose career was destroyed by his final film, an out of control French epic known as PlayTime 1967. Tati directs dozens of extras in wide shots where each one is in their own movie. He shows if you are going to have a background character without any dialogue and you want the audience to recognize them you have to give them a distinct wardrobe or task that they repeat. Like a waiter who is always touching his hair to make sure it is perfectly parted and every hair is placed perfectly. It becomes very amusing if not hilarious. Worth some YouTube short video watches in downtime. PlayTime can’t be spoiled because it seems to have a very loose idea of a plot if not, no plot at all. This is the best first time reaction in existence. I wish it was available to the world because it is the perfect example of how this movie should be watched. Like A24 and Ari Aster should support this reaction but it would most likely be a copyright strike, when they should promote it. If it was the free reaction in the about info I would send Ari Aster right to it, but it wouldn’t be the best representation of your Patreon. I’ve never been prouder of you and I’ve always been super proud of you. Thank you so much for this. Remember if you rewatch it to record it even if you think there’s no point. I know your next watch will rock even more.

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So I just first-time watched this "with" Ollie last night. Planned on shutting his commentary off and just watching, but as you pointed out, Benny: Ollie's reaction was wonderfully accepting of the film and noninvasive to my viewing. It made my first watch even better (far as I know as I have no comparison), surprisingly so! Good on ya, Ollie. I have something to add to your analysis, which I'll comment 👇.