![]() Strangers form theater troupes in the woods, seedy cities are filled with caricatures of real people anyone's sentence can become a jarring non sequitur at any moment, and no event is guaranteed to be permanent. The environments around him are nonsense to us. He's emasculated, directionless, and, as he points out himself, personality-less. Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) lives in a world where his every decision is governed by assertive women, and every woman leads back to his mother. The actual plot consists of a paranoid man's surreal, Kafkaesque odyssey to appease his domineering mother. It's not carried by its characters so much as it is by hypnagogic artillery fire of imaginative sets and set-pieces, most of which have rhyme and reason for existing but some, probably none. ![]() This behemoth is a lot to digest in one sitting. Like a colorful virus, he infects audiences with "Beau is Afraid" - a mind-bending journey of a film which I wish many people would see, but could only realistically recommend to a short list of open-minded friends. ![]() I don't know if that's true or not, or whether he takes psychedelics at all, but the man walks around with an imagination that is perpetually, creatively tripping. I remember seeing a headline a few weeks ago in which it was claimed that Ari Aster dropped some LSD before a premiere.
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