Note: This article contains important plot and ending information. Beau is afraid.
A three hour film by Ari Aster Beau is scared it is definitely something that has to be seen to be believed. Even then, you shouldn’t feel too self-conscious if you leave the movie wondering, “What the hell did I just see?”
Termination Beau is scared sees Beau Wasserman on trial for his life, with the entire world acting as his jury. Even to try to understand what is going on here, we should start at the beginning.
What you need to know about Beau Is Afraid
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Beau is a troubled middle-aged boy who lives in a dangerous city. Chaos is the norm in the streets in front of his apartment. Gunshots are as common as car horns, people are gouging out their enemies’ eyes on the sidewalk, and a man covered in tattoos chases Beau to his apartment. It’s hell, and his gray apartment is no better.
Beau is about to fly home to see his mother on the death anniversary of his father, who supposedly died during Beau’s conception. The next day, Beau’s trip is canceled because someone stole his keys. After an incredibly tense and surreal journey to get a bottle of water across the street, our hero learns that his mother died when a chandelier fell on his head.
Many people have realized Beau is scared like homer download Odyssey, with our concerned friend taking the place of noble Odysseus. Beau’s journey home begins here, but it’s really less of a literal journey than a surreal existential adventure through Beau’s own psyche.
After arguing with a homeless man in his bathtub, our protagonist finds himself in an awkward situation. He’s naked, bleeding, and a very incompetent cop seems to think Beau is the birthday boy for Sting, a naked serial killer who terrorizes the streets of the fictional town of Aster. Beau is hit by a car and stabbed by the real Stab Man, causing him to pass out. Schedule the next act.
Beau finds new homes
Beau wakes up in the home of friendly strangers Roger and Grace. Roger has been treating her injuries and promises to take Beau to her mother’s funeral in the next few days. However, there is a dubious nature to the couple’s home as Grace keeps hinting that something else is going on here.
Beau’s world turns to hell once again when Grace and Roger’s distraught teenage daughter Toni commits gruesome suicide by drinking paint. Blaming Beau for her death, Grace lets go of Jeeves, a man who lives with them and who served in the army with Grace and Roger’s deceased son. Beau runs into the woods, crashes into a branch, and passes out.
What follows is where the movie really takes a deep dive into its surreal absurdity. Beau stumbles across a theater company called The Forest Orphans, who are performing a play in the woods that seems to have some striking similarities to Beau’s life. The play, which can feel like a 15-minute adventure that goes nowhere, is central to the final hour of the film, in which Beau’s life falls apart due to problems with her mother.
During the play, a man tells Beau that his father is really alive; Beau becomes convinced that this man is actually his father. He’s too bad he can’t confirm it, because he hits Jeeves and blows him to pieces. The attack on the hull causes Jeeves to shoot himself dozens of times with a submachine gun, supposedly killing him. Before dying, he manages to activate Beau’s anklet and incapacitate him.
Beau faints many times in this movie, causing him to see surreal dreams from his past. One of Beau’s recurring dreams sees him as a child, talking to his mother about his father, who knows that he is alive. He wants to see it, but she angrily takes him up to the scary-looking attic. We don’t find out what’s in the attic until later, after Beau finally makes it to his mom’s house by hitchhiking along the way.
Beau discovers the truth
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As we enter Beau’s mother’s house, the movie begins to show its true colors. Beau’s mother, named Mona Wasserman, is a very successful businesswoman and has not died yet. Actually, she was testing Beau the whole time.
Here we can begin to see it. Beau is scared It’s kind of a super sadistic version the truman show. The image of the house, which shows an image of Mona composed of photos of her employees in a similar way to the famous poster behind the classic Jim Carrey movie, reveals that many of the people we saw in Beau’s Odyssey actually worked for Mona: Her Therapist, Grace and Roger, even tattooed the guy who berated Beau in the opening act. The entire process of the film was structured like this by Mona trying to test her son to see if he really cared for her. She blames him for everything from refusing to breastfeed when he was a baby to making up a story about having her keys stolen.
The relationship between Mona and her son is fueled by control. She seeks to protect her child by creating a cocoon of security around her, trampling on any sense of autonomy Beau may have in this world. However, Beau is still not enough for her. He’s doing the best he can in this hellish world, but his inability to speak his mind and be brave feels like a stab to the heart. Beau is paralyzed by an overwhelming anxiety that he’s not good enough. He tries to color inside the lines and be nice to others, but his mother only sees cowardice.
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In the midst of Mona’s punishment, we come full circle as Beau’s nightmare comes to life. They pushed him into the dark attic, where a hungry man who looked a lot like Beau was huddled in a corner. In the other corner is, well, a big, grotesque penis monster. (You can’t make these things up, people.)
So what exactly is wrong with this thing? Big question. The monster is implied to be Beau’s father; Mona says that he is her father and that her dream was “a memory, idiot”. So Beau was conceived by a penis monster? It could be him? My best guess would be that the monster, like much of the movie, is more of a metaphorical representation of his father than anything literal. All Beau knows about his father is that he died after Beau’s conception because a heart murmur killed him when he climaxed. Beau also has this heart murmur, which makes him afraid of sex. Mona was hiding Beau’s father, and Beau’s own sexual freedom, because she was trying to protect him, like everything else in the movie.
Maybe the other person in the attic was Beau’s twin, or maybe it was a manifestation of Beau’s brave side. That person disobeyed her mother and wanted to take her life into her own hands, and she was thrown into exile. Meanwhile, Beau’s father-penis is absent from his life because he is useless after conception. The live penis did everything she needed to do, and after that, Mona didn’t need it anymore.
How does Beau Is Afraid end?
After the attic sequence, Beau strangles his mother and she falls into a glass screen and appears to be dead. Beau runs out of the house, jumps into a small boat, and wanders aimlessly into the night. But you didn’t really think this movie would end like this, did you?
Beau’s ship stops dead in its tracks and is revealed to be inside a large stadium. To one side sits Mona – alive and with new scars on her neck – and her lawyer. On the other side is Beau’s defender. Beau is literally on trial for his life.
Mona and her lawyer begin making countless accusations against Beau, portraying him as a terrible person and an even worse son. The entire movie was a trial, and his verdict is here. He tries to pray and apologize for everything he did, but the decision backfired. The ship capsizes. After a few moments of struggle, she stops moving. The stadium crowd starts to leave just as we theatergoers start to leave. Beau is dead. Credit roll.
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Beau’s odyssey has led him to the one place his mother seems to have always been looking for, whether she knew it or not. His endless attempts to control and protect Beau manifest out of an inflated ego, which fundamentally mistrusts his son. She made her world her own and Beau couldn’t live well in it. His entire life was tested by his very existence, an anxiety that had gripped Beau since his birth.
The beginning of the film begins with his chaotic birth and ends with his last breath. What’s in between is a portrait of a certain kind of anxiety about one’s life. Trying to please everyone and not being a jerk, and yet not being enough. And in the end, the only way out is death. Beau was always doomed and always afraid.
Beau is scared now playing in theaters.
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