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‘Beau Is Afraid’: The Most Audacious and Polarizing Movie of the Year, With Ari Aster!

The Big Picture

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The Importance of Plausibility in Film

The film is very schematic. You can almost in real time hand pick out where you feel like Ari's mind blended all of these pieces together. I found the whole hell New York section for the first 20 or 25 minutes of the movie to be extremely funny. But then it moves into a different kind of quieter and subtler way, which may be by design. Ryan: The movie feels like one man's war against existence in many ways from whence he came.

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