Beau Is Afraid
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Malangevcqn
Could've sworn I saw a tail sticking out of a skillet that was meant to imply the cooking of domesticated animals.
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About when does that scene happen time wise?
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There are 2 scenes with a spider early in the movies
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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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NoAviNK1
if you have a fear of becoming an abuser, beau shares this fear, and is outlined at the end when he is painted as the "real abuser" in the situation
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jordanowen
this is all verbal/mental, but still distressing
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NoAviNK1
a lot of mental/emotional trauma.
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Almost whole mother/son dynamic is hee gaslighting him.
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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
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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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jordanowen
the daughter, Toni, is shown to be constantly taking pills more than prescribed.
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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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NoAviNK1
Beau has sex towards the end of the movie and he's shown to be unwilling at times
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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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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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jacksflat
The whole borderline-sexual assault scene could technically count, as it's played for laughs.
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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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itsmeemomo
Beau is pinned down nude and stabbed repeatedly in the palm and abdomen.
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Beau strangles his mother
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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(?)
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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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NoAviNK1
stabbings on screen, explosions, a dick monster kills a man, the works
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jordanowen
no self shaving/cutting !!
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pitifulcowboy
CPR is performed on Toni after she drinks paint
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itsmeemomo
A corpse left on the street is ran over by a truck
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NoAviNK1
beau multiple times
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Ninuz
Beau walks barefoot in broken glass but there is nothing graphic
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Sid
Beau briefly chokes his mother but doesn’t kill her
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This happens when he goes up into the attic as an adult.
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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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Graphic head squash during the arena scene when the defense attorney is thrown off the platform
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itsmeemomo
Beau discovers a gigantic penis monster in his attic, complete with tendrils and a mouth.
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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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The teenage girl dies by drinking paint in the scene where they go into her brother's room
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Sid
Not sure what becomes of the penis monster
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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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jordanowen
technically because the person drinking paint is doing it to get high
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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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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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itsmeemomo
Main character takes a bath, partial nudity as he enters.
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jordanowen
very few but yes! most have to do with smash cuts and audio cues though
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NoAviNK1
there's a theater troupe that perform with mannequin-like faces
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alextf
A print ad for a razor is briefly show
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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.
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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.
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jordanowen
spit
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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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NoAviNK1
a news article says a man died of cancer, but only seen through text.
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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
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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
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NoAviNK1
one can believe beau has autism, and his anxiety/trauma makes himself guilty for it
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If this is triggering stay away from movie- character suffers from intense anxiety and paranoia
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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.
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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.
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The teenage daughter is very self destructive. She takes drugs and drinks paint, ultimately killing herself. She does not cut though.
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A man is seen on a rooftop threatening to jump
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itsmeemomo
There is a lengthy scene of Beau's birth shown from his first-person perspective.
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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.
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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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jordanowen
a couple POV shots and one intentionally shaky shot through the forest
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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
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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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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.
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jordanowen
the beginning of the film is a pov of beau’s birth
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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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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.
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jordanowen
behavior, not language.
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A teen balls Beau a f-slur
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Though one could argue that this film illustrates precisely this point, its leitmotif rests in the antisemitic trope of an emasculated Jewish man being manipulated and controlled by his nagging mother, all while feeling incredibly guilty about his role as a son.
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adeliajbrown
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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NoAviNK1
Toni calls Beau the F-Word
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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jacksflat
Lengthy, uncomfortable sex scene.
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Sid
Beau is ridiculed and generally abused by most of the other characters in the film
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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
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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.
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Sid
Beau dies. The whole film is just his life getting worse and worse
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jordanowen
when beau gets hit by a car, the tires screech
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jordanowen
beau is hit by a car but ends up okay
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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.
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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
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jacksflat
Not nuclear, but there is an explosion
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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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The end of the film Beau's boat flips over and he never resurfaces.
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