yes, but it was also a metaphor at the same time, basically this
>But isn't fiction real? >Why? >Well, you can see it in the movie, right? >Of course. >Well, then it's just as real as reality, because you can see it too.
>But isn't fiction real? >Why? >Well, you can see it in the movie, right? >Of course. >Well, then it's just as real as reality, because you can see it too.
I skipped through the movie and saw this 18 yr old girl in a bra. How could you be a director/producer and not sample some fresh young hopeful actress pussy? Especially when they dress like this around you. I sympathize with them.
>make a sloppily-written low-budget horror >get lucky and it grosses $100 million >any movie you subsequently make will get blanket shilling on Cinemaphile for at least a decade after even if they are critical and commercial duds
just watch this last night, I have insane anxiety and this movie shows very accurately how its like to live with high levels of anxiety, basically everything that happens to him are thoughts and obsessions when having high anxiety that cross your mind all the time. >omg that guy wants to kill me >omg what if someone steals my keys then i get locked out and the whole block goes in my home and destroys it? >omg what if because i didnt go see my mother she ends up dying and its my fault?!
ETC ETC
the gorl in the movie is 8/10.
the whole movie is about what its like to be a highly neurotic and anxiety ridden person. what their thought process is how they think about things that seem regular even in the end he is self judging and executing himself under the weight of all his guilt and anxiety. it all never happened in the movies story its all a in his mind or something, i liked most parts of it, the first bit leading up to the car accident is great, i really liked the part where he imagines himself as the lead in the play having a big adverturous life. >tl;dr of the movie >if you live your life in fear of what happen you end up not living.
Thanks for reading my ted talk X
Explain why the therapist asked him in the beginning if he had thoughts about killing his mom and wrote down guilty (seen from a perspective unavailable to Beau) in his notebook if it wasn't all literally orchestrated by his mom.
I don't really see how anyone can be trying to defend this garbage. The movie isn't even really a movie and more like an attempt for pity on Ari's oh so miserable life with his rich mom and his dikc father. If anyone wanted to call their father a dick you can do it in less than 3hours and make it way more coherent. Ari obviously was trying to be like Kaufman and many scenes reference the greater film to ever exist Synechdoche, New York but he misses the mark so hard it's actually pathetic. I'm writing something now that will blow this out of the water and I know it will if this is the bar set for films right now and honestly A24 should be ashamed they greenlit this.
I'll see you morons in 2-3 years when I'm done with a script that will blow this world apart.
Explain why the therapist asked him in the beginning if he had thoughts about killing his mom and wrote down guilty (seen from a perspective unavailable to Beau) in his notebook if it wasn't all literally orchestrated by his mom.
It's shown that the root cause of his anxiety is his narcissistic mom, and considering she's the billionaire owner of a security company the events of the films are just as likely to be metaphorical as they are literal, especially because it's clearly happening in an alternate universe with looser laws of reality.
The "Always with water" segment is so fricking funny and great. Him panicking and trying to make himself vomit, running out into the streets with that guy just repeatedly screaming "HELPMEHELPMEHELPME"
Best sequence in the movie. The apartment complex was just done perfectly, really funny, really stressful and dark. Loved it.
I'd love it if more comedy explored this territory. Comedies that are so dark and stressful that they filter out most people.
I didn't see this in theaters but I wonder did people laugh during the first act? Because they should, because it's genuinely hilarious, I could see people just thinking they're supposed to be upset at how dark it is but thats kind of the point. The suffering and bleakness of that world only exists to make Beau's life hell, it's not real in any way, it's not depicted as being real its just the worst shit happening all to frick with him.
Highly flawed movie but the first act really fricking nailed it.
NTA but the scenes with child Beau were one of if not the main major flaw, really dragged the film, because it was such a left turn from the constant anxiety and dark humor up to that point.
The ship scenes, and any flashback with the mother were played completely straight and stick out like a sore thumb among how the rest of the film feels.
I would've personally fixed that by not shoving the flashbacks throughout, and instead just having that one scene on the ship post-transition where Beau turns his head, completely without a soundtrack and just playing like a separate short film, like the animation scene. With no editing frickery throughout that entire scene, to lull you into a false sense of security.
Nah the first act I recall a few snickers here and there but then it was kinda like a few people on their phones and then when the forest scene was going on people started leaving
I just gave it to you
Do you need an explanation for why Wile E Coyote gets smashed with a boulder or exploded with tnt and then is totally okay the next scene?
self-fulfilling prophecy
he suffers because its all he knows, he expects the worst to happen and it does, continually, again and again and again.
He was able to fast forward to the end of the movie because that's all he does constantly, his anxiety is just a constant state of thinking about what is wrong, what might go wrong, how it will go wrong.
Yeah of course, everything except his dream sequence during the play.
Even the penis monster?
yes, but it was also a metaphor at the same time, basically this
>But isn't fiction real?
>Why?
>Well, you can see it in the movie, right?
>Of course.
>Well, then it's just as real as reality, because you can see it too.
I skipped through the movie and saw this 18 yr old girl in a bra. How could you be a director/producer and not sample some fresh young hopeful actress pussy? Especially when they dress like this around you. I sympathize with them.
Oh boy here we go again
>make a film filled with plot holes
>"i...it was a metaphor and symbol and stuff!!"
>make a sloppily-written low-budget horror
>get lucky and it grosses $100 million
>any movie you subsequently make will get blanket shilling on Cinemaphile for at least a decade after even if they are critical and commercial duds
frick this place
it's a noteworthy film
not a lot of those
therefore it is an event
Am I moronic for thinking its kinda similar to this movie?
What movie
Wait, I just realized it can't be all real. How do you explain him fast-forwarding to see his future?
just watch this last night, I have insane anxiety and this movie shows very accurately how its like to live with high levels of anxiety, basically everything that happens to him are thoughts and obsessions when having high anxiety that cross your mind all the time.
>omg that guy wants to kill me
>omg what if someone steals my keys then i get locked out and the whole block goes in my home and destroys it?
>omg what if because i didnt go see my mother she ends up dying and its my fault?!
ETC ETC
the gorl in the movie is 8/10.
That was just the first act. Turns out all his fears were grounded in his Kafkaesque hellscape of a reality.
>Kafkaesque
Never reading this guys book, people that say this phrase are pretentious as frick
This film was actually Kafkaesque THOUGH
shove off, Nerd
the whole movie is about what its like to be a highly neurotic and anxiety ridden person. what their thought process is how they think about things that seem regular even in the end he is self judging and executing himself under the weight of all his guilt and anxiety. it all never happened in the movies story its all a in his mind or something, i liked most parts of it, the first bit leading up to the car accident is great, i really liked the part where he imagines himself as the lead in the play having a big adverturous life.
>tl;dr of the movie
>if you live your life in fear of what happen you end up not living.
Thanks for reading my ted talk X
kek'd at that part
Explain why the therapist asked him in the beginning if he had thoughts about killing his mom and wrote down guilty (seen from a perspective unavailable to Beau) in his notebook if it wasn't all literally orchestrated by his mom.
nice try, heres a (you).
You know how therapists take notes, right? Fear his lack of response will be interpreted as the worst possible.
>the rapists take notes
on what? which woman was easiest to rape or which technique worked better?
fine you fricking pussy homosexual
>2 and a half hours of this man having anxiety.
fixed the movie tittle.
I don't really see how anyone can be trying to defend this garbage. The movie isn't even really a movie and more like an attempt for pity on Ari's oh so miserable life with his rich mom and his dikc father. If anyone wanted to call their father a dick you can do it in less than 3hours and make it way more coherent. Ari obviously was trying to be like Kaufman and many scenes reference the greater film to ever exist Synechdoche, New York but he misses the mark so hard it's actually pathetic. I'm writing something now that will blow this out of the water and I know it will if this is the bar set for films right now and honestly A24 should be ashamed they greenlit this.
I'll see you morons in 2-3 years when I'm done with a script that will blow this world apart.
Back to getting your holes plowed by dogs Adum
>IT WAS ALL LE ALLEGORY
It clearly wasn't just that though. Otherwise it could've ended by the first act.
Ok dude, you're 100% right. Post your masterpiece of a movie that you wrote or directed. I'll wait.
Give it time buddy, greatness takes time.
Huh? Oh man im sorry im so stupid i misunderstood. I thought you were a great filmaker, but you are saying youre shit eating homosexual? Dang, my bad.
Lmao ok buddy, keep sitting on the sidelines with nothing to show for it and posting here I'm sure you'll make it
It's shown that the root cause of his anxiety is his narcissistic mom, and considering she's the billionaire owner of a security company the events of the films are just as likely to be metaphorical as they are literal, especially because it's clearly happening in an alternate universe with looser laws of reality.
>of a security company
Securities. Read: usury.
Why do people talk about synechodeche new York so much like it's good? Both movies are trash
>Synechdoche
>bad
ohiamlaffin filtered!
The "Always with water" segment is so fricking funny and great. Him panicking and trying to make himself vomit, running out into the streets with that guy just repeatedly screaming "HELPMEHELPMEHELPME"
Best sequence in the movie. The apartment complex was just done perfectly, really funny, really stressful and dark. Loved it.
Yep, the part where he runs into his building before that or when he runs to the store to get water. lmfao.
No, some was exaggerated, some was completely imagined by his mental illness.
>DO NOT MAKE ME DO THIS
>I SWEAR TO GOD, DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS
Aster's best film.
I'd love it if more comedy explored this territory. Comedies that are so dark and stressful that they filter out most people.
I didn't see this in theaters but I wonder did people laugh during the first act? Because they should, because it's genuinely hilarious, I could see people just thinking they're supposed to be upset at how dark it is but thats kind of the point. The suffering and bleakness of that world only exists to make Beau's life hell, it's not real in any way, it's not depicted as being real its just the worst shit happening all to frick with him.
Highly flawed movie but the first act really fricking nailed it.
>Highly flawed
Well what about it is?
NTA but the scenes with child Beau were one of if not the main major flaw, really dragged the film, because it was such a left turn from the constant anxiety and dark humor up to that point.
The ship scenes, and any flashback with the mother were played completely straight and stick out like a sore thumb among how the rest of the film feels.
I would've personally fixed that by not shoving the flashbacks throughout, and instead just having that one scene on the ship post-transition where Beau turns his head, completely without a soundtrack and just playing like a separate short film, like the animation scene. With no editing frickery throughout that entire scene, to lull you into a false sense of security.
dicky excuses everything. Also that moment where you’re like
>wait isn’t that just cgi Joaquin?
1. That actress is 20
2. That kid is a real person
ikr?
>she’s 20
>looks 14
>also into screwing with young boys
She’s perfect.
Saw it in theatre not too long ago and it wasn't packed or anything but I saw a few people walk out during the forest scene
did they laugh at all or just sat in silence? I found the first 2 acts really funny
It's an hour too long
Nah the first act I recall a few snickers here and there but then it was kinda like a few people on their phones and then when the forest scene was going on people started leaving
I honestly did not get that it was a comedy until Nathan Lane showed up and even then not until
>Oh she’s not dead. That’s nice.
actual answer:
it's a comedy and you guys are taking it too seriously.
it can happen and it's "real" as long as it's funny.
I still have yet to receive an explanation for why he was able to fast-forward to the end of the film
I just gave it to you
Do you need an explanation for why Wile E Coyote gets smashed with a boulder or exploded with tnt and then is totally okay the next scene?
But that wasn't a comedic moment.
It was supposed to be an hour longer. it being exhausting and having no payoff is part of the joke. Here's hoping we get an extended cut
>it's supposed to be bad in purpose! That's part of the joke!
have a nice day unironically just have a nice day
not my problem
self-fulfilling prophecy
he suffers because its all he knows, he expects the worst to happen and it does, continually, again and again and again.
He was able to fast forward to the end of the movie because that's all he does constantly, his anxiety is just a constant state of thinking about what is wrong, what might go wrong, how it will go wrong.
SPACE BALLS
>absurdist exploration of “reality” according to a neurotic paranoid
>uuuuhhhh am it to be teh real tho????