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The two-hour-and-59-minute movie is the messy, colorful splatter canvas of a guy working through some shit.
She is the final boss of mommy issues.
Literal-minded fans want to know,Whats the deal with Ari and his mom?
The abridged answer: nothing particularly fucked up.
he asks me, as he always does.
Dont you think the world would be better off if there were no people?
He knows my answer.
Why did you have me anyway?
Because you taught me what love is, I say, as I always do.
But isnt that selfish?
Yes, I say.
I always say yes.
Astertold Voxin 2018, I have an amazing relationship with my parents and with my younger brother.
I have incredibly supportive parents who are both artists.
As he told theTorontoSunin 2018, My mom and I would go to a lot of these movies together.
I think my mom has a very dark outlook and a dark sensibility.
So wed go, when I was young, to seeThe Piano TeacherandDogvilletogether, and we both loved them.
I was able to find at least one tenuous parallel betweenBeauand Asters life, though.
I panicked, screamed, and jumped out of my seat.
In the movie, the memory is weaponized by Mona as a sort of guilt-bomb against Beau.
Or maybe Aster spent his earliest years in New York City and was therefore irrevocably psychotherapy-pilled for life.
Or as a Mona.
Then again, that sounds like something Beau would say too.
