beau is afraid of his relationship with reality.

movie reviw —Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster, 2023.—

In an age where consciousness and cinema alike, are starting to become too self-aware, werewolves and the Devil have been long eradicated by reason; only feared by our denied skepticism and a childlike view of what others long ago feared in the darkness.

Beau is Afraid is a beautifully constructed depiction of our complex relationship with narrative, and a portrait of the terrifying responsibility of having to write one’s own story, in a world where there's no real danger, the Devil and the Monsters announce themselves part of the play, making it public for all to judge.

“THAT WASN’T A DREAM, THAT WAS A MEMORY.”

It's scary to realize one doesn't control thought, thus the vertigo of wild dreams pulling ourselves to the deepest, darkest, and most traumatic corners of the mind, has become a genre of itself. Lending people the experience of real-world nightmares. Cinema has always been a window to the soul, and Ari Aster's "Beau Is Afraid" is an extremely well-crafted nightmare, too complex and absurd to comprehend, just as life may feel sometimes.

For those who found the movie despicable, if reaching the section of this review didn't change their minds about a second vieweng, maybe this argument will convience one of you to give it another chance, just in for the sake of exploration: Beau is afraid is not a story, but a movie. Let novels do their work, Cinema and Conciousness have come to the realization, that now that reality has been left behind, narrative is the soul ground where they stand, hyperculture shook it so hard, so this feeling is what we're left with. The Terror. We are all afraid, Beau.

—Fernando de Yolanda.