Mayocel
Apostle of the Grey Pill
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So I was in a screening of another Ari Aster movie Midsommar (which is also pretty great), and I started to think about his newest movie, Beau is Afraid.
The titular protagonist is a virgin not by his own design and basically a hikkineet, and as such, qualifies as an incel.
The movie is his journey to his dead mother's funeral, which is filled with amusing hijinks.
One of the core themes of the movie is the tight grip his single mother had over him his whole life, causing him to be unable to face the world and forge his own connections. One of her actions being directly cockblocking him in his childhood.
I've seen similiar experiences shared by several users of this forum, so it is fair to say that art imitates life. Overbearing parents and a hostile world creating a permanent sense of anxiety.
There are also sequences in the movie of what might have been, and various instances of Beau getting gaslit by everyone in his surroundings.
I guess due to that, despite an impressive runtime, Beau is Afraid is a movie that flew by in an instant.
Ari Aster said that with the movie, he "[wanted] to put [the audience] in the experience of being a loser."
The titular protagonist is a virgin not by his own design and basically a hikkineet, and as such, qualifies as an incel.
The movie is his journey to his dead mother's funeral, which is filled with amusing hijinks.
One of the core themes of the movie is the tight grip his single mother had over him his whole life, causing him to be unable to face the world and forge his own connections. One of her actions being directly cockblocking him in his childhood.
I've seen similiar experiences shared by several users of this forum, so it is fair to say that art imitates life. Overbearing parents and a hostile world creating a permanent sense of anxiety.
There are also sequences in the movie of what might have been, and various instances of Beau getting gaslit by everyone in his surroundings.
I guess due to that, despite an impressive runtime, Beau is Afraid is a movie that flew by in an instant.