Movie News and Discussion

The original post: /r/movies by /u/thebradman70 on 2025-01-01 15:44:19.

My New Year’s Eve movie was “Beau Is Afraid”. I am still trying to sort out in my mind what was real and what was a hallucination. Any thoughts? This movie is like “Inherent Vice”. Both have Joaquin Phoenix tripping out and both juxtapose reality and hallucination. I found it easier to separate the two in “Inherent Vice”. The noise complaint notes left in Beau’s apartment were probably a hallucination. As far as plot goes, did Grace and Roger’s daughter really commit suicide by drinking paint? The theater group commune was probably real but his placement in the plot was false. Did Beau kill his mom or did she die from a falling chandelier? I think the latter. Was the end a hallucination or judgment in the afterlife? Ari Aster sure makes some dark disturbing stuff. I thought “Midsommar” took the cake until I watched this one.