Beau Is Afraid
Movie
ReportAn anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
This movie contains 86 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
2 supporters
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DrDumbPhD
Someone is killed while a goodbye is in mid-resolution
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
22 supporters
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itsmeemomo
Parental neglect/control is one of the underlying themes of the film, however it is through an elderly mother and her adult son instead.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
17 supporters
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Beau’s mom controls his life and has surveillance on him. She also recorded and listened to all of his therapy sessions.
Jeeves also stalks Beau once he fleas Grace and Roger’s house, and Beau has a tracking device on him
Jeeves also stalks Beau once he fleas Grace and Roger’s house, and Beau has a tracking device on him
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NoAviNK1
a lot of mental/emotional trauma.
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5
Beau's mother describes how her mother was emotionally abusive to her, and says she promised she would never do that to Beau's. But she is very abusive towards him.
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Is someone gaslighted?
27 supporters
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Sid
Constantly. It’s one of the main themes of the film
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Yes
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jordanowen
this is all verbal/mental, but still distressing
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Addiction
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jordanowen
almost everyone in the film uses pills as medication. toni smokes what looks like a joint, but she reveals that it is a “mix of three things” and forces beau to smoke it. he then trips.
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Is there addiction?
10 supporters
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jordanowen
the daughter, Toni, is shown to be constantly taking pills more than prescribed.
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Animal
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Yes
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Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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6
About 10 minutes into the movie a poisonous spider is seen crawling under Beaus couch- about 30 minutes in it is seen again on man’s face. Doesn’t show up again except these 2 scenes
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
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0
There are 2 scenes with a spider early in the movies
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
10 supporters
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Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
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6
Sort of… Beau is in the car with Toni and her friend and they force him to smoke something that they say is 3 types of drugs.
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Is someone held under water?
11 supporters
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NoAviNK1
Beau fights a man in his bathtub, a dream sequence has an imaginary family seperated by a flood, and towards the end, someone drowns while being stuck under a boat
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Is someone restrained?
13 supporters
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pauloween
Restrained ankles/feet are a recurring motif: at least five times with Beau (a tracking device, a chain & shackle three times, and feet being stuck/glued to a floor).
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jordanowen
during the sex scene, Beau repeatedly yells “stop” but the person he is with does not stop. while this is for other very specific reasons and he does seem to be okay afterwards, it still is sexual assault.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
27 supporters
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jacksflat
The whole borderline-sexual assault scene could technically count, as it's played for laughs.
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Yes
36
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NoAviNK1
Beau has sex towards the end of the movie and he's shown to be unwilling at times
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
19 supporters
Yes
4
No
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jordanowen
no self shaving/cutting !!
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Are any hands damaged?
12 supporters
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DrDumbPhD
A close up of a hand being stabbed repeatedly with a knife.
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Yes
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
16 supporters
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Beau strangles his mother
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Is there decapitation?
15 supporters
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Cassiman
Mona fakes being decapitated by a chandelier. Martha is actually decapitated and her headless body is shown.
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Is someone crushed to death?
17 supporters
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itsmeemomo
A corpse left on the street is ran over by a truck
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Is someone choked?
14 supporters
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No
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Sid
Beau briefly chokes his mother but doesn’t kill her
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Yes
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Is there body horror?
28 supporters
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itsmeemomo
Beau discovers a gigantic penis monster in his attic, complete with tendrils and a mouth.
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Does a head get squashed?
35 supporters
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Graphic head squash during the arena scene when the defense attorney is thrown off the platform
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Does someone asphyxiate?
16 supporters
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pitifulcowboy
CPR is performed on Toni after she drinks paint
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Does someone become unconscious?
3 supporters
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Sid
Beau keeps knocking himself out through various shenanigans
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
47 supporters
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jordanowen
SPOILER:
i think the only technical example is a giant penis monster is repeatedly shot and stabbed with lots of blood pouring out of each wound, but it ends up alive(?)
i think the only technical example is a giant penis monster is repeatedly shot and stabbed with lots of blood pouring out of each wound, but it ends up alive(?)
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
29 supporters
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NoAviNK1
hand is stabbed on screen but nothing else
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Is someone tortured?
57 supporters
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itsmeemomo
Beau is pinned down nude and stabbed repeatedly in the palm and abdomen.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
4 supporters
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This happens when he goes up into the attic as an adult.
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Does someone fall to their death?
8 supporters
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jordanowen
the first example is at the beginning of the movie where somebody is at the top of a building and people are egging them on to jump. the jump isn’t shown, but there is a smash cut to the dead body afterwards. no blood, but the body is gross. the second example is at the end of the movie where someone is thrown off a cliff and their head is smashed by a rock. this is from a distance but very graphic.
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Is there eye mutilation?
59 supporters
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jordanowen
gouging is the correct term! this is shown from a distance with some blood around the victim’s eyes and then later shown again in a different environment with the man still having his thumbs in the man’s eyes. you never see the result of the gouging
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Is someone stabbed?
6 supporters
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Pantalones
Beau is stabbed repeatedly by a naked serial killer.
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Is there excessive gore?
51 supporters
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NoAviNK1
stabbings on screen, explosions, a dick monster kills a man, the works
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Children
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Does a kid die?
28 supporters
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The teenage girl dies by drinking paint in the scene where they go into her brother's room
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Is a minor sexualized?
61 supporters
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jordanowen
young beau and a younger girl talk about sex and kiss. two girls, presumably minors, talk briefly about sex but their dialogue is somewhat muffled and brief
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Yes
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Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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Sid
Not sure what becomes of the penis monster
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Does someone die?
10 supporters
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Sid
Life is very disposable within the universe of the film. Dead bodies are everywhere but nobody seems to care
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Disability
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Yes
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
9 supporters
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jordanowen
technically because the person drinking paint is doing it to get high
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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eddieisvibing
I feel the second act portrays a kidnapping, while the family is "pretending to help" Beau, they also refuse to let him leave and gaslight him repeatedly. This may influence some triggers.
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Does a parent die?
8 supporters
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NoAviNK1
beau's dad is dead, and his mom dies in act one (off screen), and other characters who's parents die will casually mention it when beau tells them
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Yes
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
30 supporters
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jordanowen
very few but yes! most have to do with smash cuts and audio cues though
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Yes
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Yes
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alextf
A print ad for a razor is briefly show
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Is there a shower scene?
7 supporters
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itsmeemomo
Main character takes a bath, partial nudity as he enters.
4 comments | Add comment
Are there mannequins?
4 supporters
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NoAviNK1
there's a theater troupe that perform with mannequin-like faces
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
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TaraE
Beau takes some medicine, realizes he doesn’t have water, and attempts to make himself V by putting his fingers down his throat. He doesn’t, but could be triggering.
After Beau watches a news clip about his mother on a laptop and sees his old romantic interest, he Vs on the laptop
Finally, there is a scene where a character drinks paint, and I kind of closed my eyes a bit, so I’m unsure if she gets sick, but I do know she spits some out in a gross way.
After Beau watches a news clip about his mother on a laptop and sees his old romantic interest, he Vs on the laptop
Finally, there is a scene where a character drinks paint, and I kind of closed my eyes a bit, so I’m unsure if she gets sick, but I do know she spits some out in a gross way.
10 comments | Add comment
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Does someone spit?
8 supporters
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jordanowen
spit
1 comment | Add comment
Is there audio gore?
30 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
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itsmeemomo
During Beau's birth: Loud, sudden rumbling is heard every few seconds as his mother attempts to push him out.
2 comments | Add comment
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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jordanowen
if anything there’s the opposite as a scene satirically shows a cop yelling “freeze” and “don’t make me do this” when beau is frozen and literally doing nothing.
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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14
Yes
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Yes
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5
Yes
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
2 supporters
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4
No
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6up5ohprocon
Yes and no. Slight spoilers: Beau has a ceramic figure of a mother holding a baby, presumably given to him by his mother due to its significance in the movie; that he drops and breaks when a cop randomly threatens him because it’s a “weapon.” However, when Beau is hit by a car and the people who hit him bring him back to their house in order to help him recover, a note is shown that says “Glue is still drying!” And the ceramic figure is glued together once again.
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
21 supporters
Yes
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jordanowen
also beau wakes up with an iv in his arm, but this is brief and it is never seen taken out
4 comments | Add comment
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Is there a hospital scene?
7 supporters
Yes
22
No
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NoAviNK1
nothing inside of a hospital but roger is a surgeon and his house is a pseudo-hospital for jeeves/beau. beau is on an iv when he wakes up
2 comments | Add comment
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4
Does someone have cancer?
12 supporters
Yes
0
No
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NoAviNK1
a news article says a man died of cancer, but only seen through text.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
Yes
35
No
2
6
A character who has been in war has lost touch with reality and is constantly attacking people. It's played a little bit for comedy.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
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Yes
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4
The teenage daughter is very self destructive. She takes drugs and drinks paint, ultimately killing herself. She does not cut though.
2 comments | Add comment
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5
Is a mentally ill person violent?
19 supporters
Yes
35
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0
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jordanowen
a man with severe PTSD is used as a violent killer and murders a bunch of people in a forest. beau, who has some sort of severe mental illness, chokes someone almost to death.
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Yes
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2
Near the beginning of the film there is a group of people watching a man on top of a building and someone watching says they’re “trying to get him to jump”. You don’t see the death but do see a dead body on the pavement shortly after.
1 comment | Add comment
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
10 supporters
Yes
11
No
0
3
Springs
It's a bizarre, contradictory reality where every one of the main character's irrational anxieties proves to be true.
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone have a meltdown?
5 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
1
DrDumbPhD
Yes. There are several crying scenes.
There is a scene in which a girl has a meltdown and chugs paint and dies.
The film itself kind of feels like a meltdown to be honest.
There is a scene in which a girl has a meltdown and chugs paint and dies.
The film itself kind of feels like a meltdown to be honest.
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Yes
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Yes
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7
Yes
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Yes
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22
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
17 supporters
Yes
24
No
5
2
A man is seen on a rooftop threatening to jump
2 comments | Add comment
Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
Yes
32
No
0
3
If this is triggering stay away from movie- character suffers from intense anxiety and paranoia
3 comments | Add comment
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
14 supporters
Yes
22
No
1
1
itsmeemomo
There is a lengthy scene of Beau's birth shown from his first-person perspective.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
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No
28
Is there autism specific abuse?
31 supporters
Yes
8
No
17
6
NoAviNK1
one can believe beau has autism, and his anxiety/trauma makes himself guilty for it
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
36
No
0
2
A man is seen on top of a building threatening to jump and later his corpse is seen on the pavement, later in the movie a character kills herself by drinking paint.
2 comments | Add comment
Noxious
Yes
2
No
4
Are there underwater scenes?
5 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
0
DrDumbPhD
There are first person scenes of being under the surface of water and looking up.
A scene of being trapped under a boat and dying from drowning.
The film has a heavily used water motif.
A scene of being trapped under a boat and dying from drowning.
The film has a heavily used water motif.
1 comment | Add comment
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
Yes
31
No
0
1
jacksflat
Briefly at the start after Beau is born. It starts after you hear some slapping noises and it's done after the title card disappears
1 comment | Add comment
Is there shakey cam?
23 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
1
jordanowen
a couple POV shots and one intentionally shaky shot through the forest
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
4 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
1
Christiannnn
3 uses of "cunt" and 40 uses of "fuck ", 9 uses of "ass", 5 uses each of "shit" and "f*ggot", and 4 uses of "cum", as well as some crude/sexual graffiti in the film’s beginning half.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
28
No
0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
9 supporters
Yes
16
No
0
2
maddiehigh
SPOILER: This is a central plot point of the movie. Beau’s therapy sessions are recorded, and his entire life is under surveillance by his Mother. It is very Truman Show-esque.
1 comment | Add comment
Is the fourth wall broken?
5 supporters
Yes
22
No
9
2
Specificallygay
There are a lot of scenes where people in the background are creepily smiling/staring straight into the camera as well as many scenes where we see from Beau’s POV so characters turn to talk at the camera
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Pregnancy
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26
Is there childbirth?
14 supporters
Yes
34
No
0
4
itsmeemomo
There is a lengthy scene of Beau's birth shown from his first-person perspective. It is extremely blurry and does not show anything graphic, but there are loud, startling sounds in the darkness and his mother is heard screaming.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Are there babies or unborn children?
10 supporters
Yes
31
No
0
1
jordanowen
the beginning of the film is a pov of beau’s birth
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Does a pregnant person die?
9 supporters
Yes
0
No
24
5
jordanowen
potentially? a pregnant woman runs away right before a massacre in the forest, but her death is never shown if she does die
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Prejudice
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0
No
26
Yes
0
No
24
Yes
0
No
27
Are there homophobic slurs?
30 supporters
Yes
27
No
0
4
NoAviNK1
Toni calls Beau the F-Word
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
5
No
21
2
Sid
Antisemetic stereotypes (most prominently the overbearing mother) but no antisemetic language or behaviour from other characters. It’s never specifically said that the central characters are Jewish but it’s very clear that they are
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
20 supporters
Yes
16
No
9
2
NoAviNK1
There's a short joke where Beau is having a dream sequence about his life where a woman narrating it says "your wife will sometimes look like a man" and it is a man's face in a dress.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
Yes
27
No
0
5
A teen balls Beau a f-slur
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
17
Yes
0
No
24
Is there ableist language or behavior?
27 supporters
Yes
16
No
8
5
jordanowen
behavior, not language.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
Yes
2
No
17
2
Anonymous
Other comment is not true, Beau is raped near the end of the film. It’s not explicitly called corrective rape but it actually does have the result of “curing” his fear of sex
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Race
Yes
0
No
8
Relationships
Yes
2
No
18
Religious
Yes
1
No
4
Yes
1
No
4
Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
Yes
34
No
0
6
jacksflat
Lengthy, uncomfortable sex scene.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
20
Are there nude scenes?
23 supporters
Yes
33
No
0
4
In the actual film there is both female and male nudity including, yes.. a giant penis monster. There is one sex scene in the film towards the end.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Yes
1
No
4
Does someone lose their virginity?
8 supporters
Yes
15
No
0
2
Sid
A central plot point is that Beau has apparently inherited a genetic disorder that caused his male relatives to die during their first orgasms. He promises his virginity to a girl when he’s a kid, and when he’s an adult they meet again and have sex, although Beau is terrified and starts screaming at her to stop
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
12
No
14
7
Beau was shown in his mother's bed as a teenager and she shows too much interest in his sexuality, but there's nothing explicit.
3 comments | Add comment
Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
12 supporters
Yes
25
No
1
3
Sid
Beau is ridiculed and generally abused by most of the other characters in the film
1 comment | Add comment
Sickness
Yes
0
No
24
Does someone have a chronic illness?
7 supporters
Yes
2
No
20
3
NoAviNK1
beau is afraid that he will get cancer if he doesn't take his medication right after seeing a news article about someone dying of cancer after taking it wrong
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
25
Yes
0
No
6
Social
Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
2
At the beginning there are a lot of homeless people who are shown to be violent, addicts, mentally ill etc. They are very threatening to the main character.
We also see the main character living in terrible conditions, then have his home destroyed and he leaves. This isn't resolved but could resemble some people's experience of becoming homeless.
We also see the main character living in terrible conditions, then have his home destroyed and he leaves. This isn't resolved but could resemble some people's experience of becoming homeless.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
11
Yes
0
No
24
Yes
0
No
6
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
Yes
1
No
25
0
is
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Does it have a sad ending?
24 supporters
Yes
33
No
0
0
Sid
Beau dies. The whole film is just his life getting worse and worse
1 comment | Add comment
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
9 supporters
Yes
27
No
0
0
jordanowen
beau is hit by a car but ends up okay
1 comment | Add comment
Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
Yes
27
No
0
0
jordanowen
when beau gets hit by a car, the tires screech
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
24
Is someone hit by a car?
11 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
4
When Beau runs out of his apartment naked he is hit violently by a car. We also see a car run over a body but it is already dead.
1 comment | Add comment
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
Yes
0
No
25
3
jacksflat
Not nuclear, but there is an explosion
1 comment | Add comment
Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
2
jacksflat
SPOILERS KINDA
Beau is stabbed multiple times, a piece of glass is pulled out of Beau's head, People explode, Jeeves loses control of his gun and it leaves a gory wound, The penis monster stabs Jeeves through the head, Someone is thrown onto a large rock and it caves their head in
Beau is stabbed multiple times, a piece of glass is pulled out of Beau's head, People explode, Jeeves loses control of his gun and it leaves a gory wound, The penis monster stabs Jeeves through the head, Someone is thrown onto a large rock and it caves their head in
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
28
No
0
5
The end of the film Beau's boat flips over and he never resurfaces.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
Yes
30
No
1
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itsmeemomo
A police officer (offscreen) shoots at a surrendering Beau, he is not hit but gunshots are heard behind him. A character also attacks an unarmed crowd using explosives, bows, and guns.
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