Joaquin Phoenix Is Trapped in Every White Man’s Nightmare in Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’
Imagine this… Ari Aster, Joaquin Phoenix, and Freud walk into a bar and decide to make a film. And just for kicks, let’s imagine other substances besides alcohol would be involved, because who are we kidding? But even if we were to let our fancies go wild, chances are it wouldn’t come close to the grinning depravity of Beau Is Afraid.
If Midsommar was a Wizard of Oz for perverts, then Beau Is Afraid gives the degenerates their own Cinderella in its take on a harmless, unfairly persecuted protagonist.
