@@Aneesh76541I think it's because if he got sick, he wouldn't go to college and spend more time with the mom. Idk something like that. That's what I think
I love Ari Aster, but I was distracted at how much that guy looks like John Mulaney. Also, you can really see where alot of Hereditary's visual motifs came from here. He has a really distinct style.
Munchausen is a syndrome in which one person imagines a particular illness so vividly that they are convinced they have it. Patients who suffer from Munchausen often hurt themselves, by poisoning, infecting open wounds or inflicting direct harm upon themselves. In the end, even if the patient wasn't suffering from anything when the delusion begun, they can develop true physical illnesses due to their own actions. The title of this story can be seen as an emotional adaptation of this illness. The mother imagined all the events which could have taken place in her son's life, and thus all the pain she would feel because of his detachment. She ends up poisoning her son, and by mistake killing him. By doing this, she loses him forever, exactly as she feared she would, metaphorically being destroyed by an illness she feared she had, but which was brought upon herself by her own hands. The title can also be seen as an adaptation for the Munchausen by proxy syndrome, when a mother is in a psychotic state and causes harm to her own children, either to gain the sympathy of those surrounding her, or out of vengeance towards a spouse. This can also happen without a clear motive, for example the nurse Beverley Gail Allitt, who killed nine infants by administering an overdose of insulin or potassium.
@@elizabeth-2213someone didn't read the whole comment, dumb butt. But seriously, read the whole comment next time before telling us something that we all already knew.
He stated in an interview that he has a wonderful relationship with his parents and still does to this day. He said a lot of pain was experienced by his family that he didn’t want to delve into but he made it clear that the reason he explores such dark themes is because both of his parents are artists and never gave him any creative or curiosity boundaries. I think he’s a fairly well adjusted guy. He just likes to explore these super dark themes in human beings.
@@JNelsonArt could have done, but you can say that about basically any narrative. if we cut everything down to the bare bones that we actually need it'd be a boring world.
Hear me out. In ari's other short film "the strange thing about the johnsons" at the beginning of the film you see a poster in the kids bedroom that has a bear and a blonde girl on it and we later found out that it was foreshadowing midsommer. In this short film we see a recurring poster featuring some campers. maybe sometime in the future we will get a camping horror film.
@@maximus025 its looking like his new one is going to basically be a full version of his short “beau” and have the character battle with sleep deprivation and paranoia as a person vs self conflict
Ari Aster as a director reminds me a lot of Wes Anderson, not their styles of directing themselves but how distinct their styles are, you could be watching a movie without knowing the director and be like “yep this is a Wes Anderson movie” or “yep this is an Ari aster movie”. Aster is the Wes Anderson of horror
Absolutely! There are a lot of shots here and in Midsommar (and probably his other movies, I just haven’t watched them yet) that we’re very Wes Anderson-esque
I don't think anyone would watch this and think 'this is definitely the guy who did Hereditary or Midsommar'. Hell, even in watching a Midsommar you'd be forgiven for not realizing it was the same director as Hereditary.
Her unwillingness to let him go caused her to miss out on more experiences with him in the next stage of his life. She never would have lost him if she let him go.
I feel like this short could also be used as a metaphor for severe emotional abuse at the hands of an unhealthy, codependent parent. She wanted to make him "feel bad" so he wouldn't leave her behind, grow up or become independent. She needed to do whatever she had to, to prevent that from happening even it meant maiming him. The horrible part is that the wonderful ambiguity Aster managed to give her character: she didn't mean to do it. The worse part about abuse is how often the perpetrators don't always mean to cause the harm they inflict, they are just so driven by their own inner turmoil that the abuse happens as an extension of themselves. By the time she realized what she had done, and she tried to give him the medicine to "feel good" it was too late, the poison had already infected his heart. In the same way, if you spend the most of your child's life being overly critical, overstepping boundaries, guilting your child, shaming your child, making them "feel bad" about themselves, doubt themselves or treating them as if they are not their own person but an extension of yourself and what you need from them, these are the behaviors they will learn to internalize and begin to inflict upon themselves in their relationships with other people. To escape that fate means of a lifetime of work and *_struggle_* to counteract your own "programming". Without a doubt, Ari Aster is the Master at psychological horror, mostly because of how accurate a depiction it is of something common or possible in real life. Hats off to you, Sir!
The action figure is meant to represent the son; youth and prosperity, bringing joy to others and symbolically "saving" those around him (his mom, in this case). And absolutely foreshadows the burial of the both of them. His dreams and hope are dead, with the best years of his life stolen. They were both forgotten about over time, while one was disinterest in a childs eyes, the other was disinterest of a child's needs through his mother. :(
Additionally, it shows how the thought of her son used to bring her so much joy. Finding his old toy brought back great memories that she cherished. Now when she finds it it’ll be a horribly saddening thing. A depressing reminder that her son is gone forever.
Also the toy was a space explorer / superman type, the kind that goes on adventures across the world. It never got to "blast off", it ended up buried before flying on its own. And if you want to go deeper, the toy is trapped between the stems of the plants (which could also be interpreted as "mother nature", which in this case gave life but also tied it up and didn´t let it take off). And if you want to go even deeper - and I might be just be seeing things here - at the beginning the toy is sewn in as part of the white blanket, as well as tied between the stems.
Have been hearing about this man's work for a while , his chit chat on Variety finally led me to introduce myself to his films ...starting with this . I learnt earlier that his movies turn dark gradually , it didn't disappoint.
This was a truly a disturbing movie but it's sad to say this has been happening far too often nowadays. I'm a mother and I could see how unhealthy this relationship was between the mother and son. You want the best for your children if it means moving out of your home and starting a life of there own then you support them. This is why mental health is so important. We sometimes ignore or don't see the signs until it's far too late to do anything about it.
My favorite part is mom making the sandwich after the midpoint. The actor did a great job of showing the dissonance in her face as she rejects the descent part of her brain trying to intervene.
The re-watchability of Ari Aster's films is what makes them so masterful, IMHO. The first time is merely a prerequisite to peel back the layers, immersive as it may be. The experience of the film, itself, changes what you're paying attention to next time you watch it. To have a work of art that transforms with the audience... I have no time to explain how powerful that is.
Imagine being a doctor and being called for symptoms like this in a healthy young man with no discernable etiology. I would not have considered poisoning in my differentials...but from now on I will.
Poisonings go back centuries and have usually been linked with women killers. Always remember that poison is a possibility! Kings had taste testers for this very reason. There are so many! Lol. Many, many things will damage the liver but not be detected immediately, death comes over a few days. If you start to research these things, you will be Very nervous of who has had contact with your food 😃
(i apologize in advance for any spoilers if y’all are scrolling through the comments while watching like i do) i think it’s so interesting to see the moms reactions and emotions, she’s watching her son grow up without her and she misses him. she’s envious of the relationship her son and his wife have, i loved when she looked over at her husband and he was asleep. the scene where the son taps her shoulder and the light shines on her face is wonderful because it represents that he’s the light of her life. she has to find things to distract her like the gardening. she spends lots of time reminiscing of times spent with him. i didn’t expect this short to turn dark, but i really should have because he’s ari. she feels guilty about wanting to hold him back in life, but enjoys taking care of him when he’s sick again as if he were a child. she misses feeling needed by him. the way this is shot reminds me so much of hereditary, it gives me that dollhouse vibe when she’s running to his room in the middle of the night. the fact that not a single word was spoken this whole time is mind boggling to me, it shows how talented the actors and ari are. there’s so much symbolism in this short too, which is really fun to pick out and analyze. wow, just wow.
What a hell of a depiction.....the literal silence in comparison to the mental and emotiona truel silence the disease of munchausen actual has. Ari is absolutely genius.....
I love Ari’s films they give more questions than answers really makes you think and makes it enjoyable to watch more than once because he puts so many small details you notice something new every time
Even before the mother went all drastic, looking at her visions of the future mixed with memories of the past, this mother's level of dependence on her son for her happiness is disturbing. Why doesn't she have friends? Why doesn't she cultivate a deeper relationship with her husband? She just pines, like she's nothing and no one without her son. She gives his college girlfriend the weirdest look, like she's shocked by another woman "taking her place" as lady #1 in her son's life (or sharing it, anyway), even though that would be the healthy thing for his development. All things considered, I'm really surprised that he's as outgoing and independent as he is.
This dynamic is frighteningly common (minus the murder). The number of women out there who see/treat their sons as a “sonsband”, are unwilling to accept that their son is his own person who deserves to live a normal life as he chooses, and attempt to ruin his adult relationships and independence is too fucking high.
Why is it “healthy” to be obsessive and over prioritize one person in a romantic relationship but yet a parent can’t even commit a fraction of that with their own flesh and blood in the real world without being accused of being “unhealthy” and other unsavory adjectives??? I personally don’t plan on ever having children for various reasons, some of which are philosophical. But I’ve never understood why romantic and sexual obsession is all well and good but no other sort of platonic infatuation or dependence is? I know couples who aren’t even individuals anymore..just gone to the “we” and chained to their new “#1” or else… That doesn’t seem healthy to me in the slightest, and yet it’s normalized at the expense of any other relationship (which is conversely shamed).
@Lucii Anne Sounds like you’re just mad that some beau of yours didn’t climb up your @ss far enough and still loved his family..that’s always how it is. The “DILs” are hypocritically everything and worse than what they accuse the “MILs” of. (Using these terms for the sake of being succinct). Is a familial relationship supposed to end in childhood or something? “Adult relationships” are not only romantic/sexual. Also, independence and individuality are usually shattered the moment any person begins a romantic relationship..it’s pretty disturbing to witness. Far worse and far more obsessive than any other parent/child relationship I’ve witnessed. So just because you consider that side of the coin “normal” doesn’t mean it’s any better than the other sort of relationship you deride. (This film is an extreme case but I know your type..you’re no different with the less hyperbolic version of this. Your ego needs you to be #1 to your partner so you become vitriolic and accusatory towards any other relationship they have with other people, be it family or even certain friends). Pot, meet kettle.
@@lukasribin4168 It's... not. I think you misunderstood what said. I said it WOULD be healthy for him to have someone other than his mother as his "one and only" woman in his life, and that what the mother is doing isn't right or healthy. It's *never* a healthy dynamic to obsess over someone else, to cut yourself off from anything else but that person.
There was another movie I saw once that opened just like this. It was about a girl who tags along on a trip with her bf and his friends and they stay with a bunch of silly sounding people in white doing fun silly things 🐻 🔥 🌸
God his suburban portraits, especially the rooms of the teenagers, are so over-the-top sugary in the best way. Really lovely soundtrack, especially that waltz during the 'off to college' montage.
Ohmygooood, everything is executed perfectly. From camera work, pacing, production, design, story, and the star of the film is the sound design! I've never seen so much 'perfectness' in a freaking 15 min film. I guess I need to watch more Ari Asters
so does that mean the first half of the movie was a wishdream of her that she had not poisoned her son and he can start a successful life and be happy and the second half was the reality that she had poisoned him so that he never leaves her? do i interpret that right? sorry for my bad english.
siempre Ari aster siempre termina sus cortos y películas con una secuencia o imagen simbólica e inquietante llena de belleza y horror.., el .. juguete entre flores muertas es mas que triste y perturbador.
Wish he would apply more of this upbeat asthetic to his filmmaking and just give us one of the best romance films since Casablanca already. Man, it would be superb.
Wow. Well Done, Ari Aster!! I’m sure naming this ‘Munchausen by proxy’ would have been much clunkier of a title, but we get what you were going for. 👍🏽 The choice to have no dialogue was a good one, and the spot on John Mulaney double made this bearable instead of terrifying.
Anne Bruecks: I seem to vaguely recall that Munchausen By Proxy was more about the adult getting attention as a martyr of sorts Through the child's illness. This, however, seems to be that the mother wasn't interested in getting attention. She was only interested in keeping her son and, in a way, freezing time; and in doing that, miscalculated and killed him instead. Being that I'm only going by a very old memory of the disease -- because I'm too lazy to actually look it up again -- I'm very likely wrong. haha
@@scleroctenophore Have you seen that Rockefeller report written in 2010? ‘Lockstep’... They oddly predicted the worldwide wearing of masks and “draconian” government restrictions. And that a virus would come out of China. And then Ari Aster comes out with a movie about killing elders at 72 and being indoctrinated (even the audience) into a cult in 2019. All of these strange “coincidences”. 🧐
I feel bad for the girl who never got to spend her life with the boy. Her soulmate or at least partner was taken from her before she even had the chance to meet him just because his mother was selfish and wouldn’t share him. The mother smothered him too much to the point nobody could have him. I know it was all in her imagination but I’m just thinking all the people who would now never have the option to share happy moments with this kid because his life was taken too soon. There’s some metaphors in here 🧐🧐something to think about 😔
Yeah, shit like that happens to the best of us. Even here in Quebec. Some women can be very cruel.Psychoanalysis organisations need to set up offices at every corner here.
It’s literally my life. Except ofc my mom doesn’t poison me physically. I still love my mom. But I do not have any passions or anything except from being her child. I was born to just take care of her.
Me gustó mucho el contraste de la escena donde la mamá corre tras del auto, ya que prácticamente el hijo se estaba yendo de su lado. Y la escena final, donde se estaban llevando el ataúd y ella estaba tras él, ya que pese a sus intentos de que se quedase con ella, al final se fue de su lado y definitivamente.
"so what do you say.....ya d here?" "I already told you........i try to revive people in ari aster silent films.......can't you understand that?!?!? what the hells the matter with you people?!?!?"
To be Ari Aster's psychologist must be a horrifying thing
lol maybe only if you are freudian. otherwise it's great material
I feel like we’re his psychologists when we watch his films because at this point it’s obvious he’s expressing his own family trauma with them
Love how that bit with the mom going after the coffin kind of brings to mind the earlier sequence with her in the rear view mirror.
I think it's symbolic that you have to let your kids go, one way or another.
i love the extremely disney/pixar feeling, it makes the dull moments feel so much more dreadful.
Why mother poisened her kid?
@nico Schumacher yup I thought the same. Reminded me of Andy's room in Toy story
@@Aneesh76541I think it's because if he got sick, he wouldn't go to college and spend more time with the mom. Idk something like that. That's what I think
The begining reminded me of that scene in a goofy movie 2
The intro sounds like the midsommar's one🫠🫠🫠
I love this man’s films. I watch them and think to myself about him, “who hurt you Ari, who?”
Probably his family, always is about family issues hahaha
take a wild guess lol
I watch his films and think to myself “this man a damn genius!!!
yeah, after watching most of his major films, I thought so too. definitely he has his family issues, or hope it is not sociopath...
@@Mansikkacake He's definitely got a twisted mind, however he translates it into art and filmography and it's absolutely beautiful the way he does it.
Love Ari's obsession with f*cked up families
Might say something about his own huh
L' orrore dei rapporti umani raccontata da Aster ormai ha fatto scuola
@@feliponsalazar9993u keep watching them lol cus ur fam fucked up too
I love Ari Aster, but I was distracted at how much that guy looks like John Mulaney. Also, you can really see where alot of Hereditary's visual motifs came from here. He has a really distinct style.
That's Klaus Baudelaire
@@freckledandred It is?!? I had no idea
midsommars visuals too
It Does look like John Mulaney! He’s a long way from “ Big Mouth” Baby!
He really doesn't look like John Mulaney that much lol
Munchausen is a syndrome in which one person imagines a particular illness so vividly that they are convinced they have it. Patients who suffer from Munchausen often hurt themselves, by poisoning, infecting open wounds or inflicting direct harm upon themselves. In the end, even if the patient wasn't suffering from anything when the delusion begun, they can develop true physical illnesses due to their own actions. The title of this story can be seen as an emotional adaptation of this illness. The mother imagined all the events which could have taken place in her son's life, and thus all the pain she would feel because of his detachment. She ends up poisoning her son, and by mistake killing him. By doing this, she loses him forever, exactly as she feared she would, metaphorically being destroyed by an illness she feared she had, but which was brought upon herself by her own hands.
The title can also be seen as an adaptation for the Munchausen by proxy syndrome, when a mother is in a psychotic state and causes harm to her own children, either to gain the sympathy of those surrounding her, or out of vengeance towards a spouse. This can also happen without a clear motive, for example the nurse Beverley Gail Allitt, who killed nine infants by administering an overdose of insulin or potassium.
Wow thank you for this, fantastic explanation.
There is a term for this as well. A lot of mothers tend to get it like Gypsy Rose's mother. It's called Munchausen Syndrome by proxy.
hey, spoiler!
@@elizabeth-2213 yup, read his last paragraph!
@@elizabeth-2213someone didn't read the whole comment, dumb butt.
But seriously, read the whole comment next time before telling us something that we all already knew.
Finally, a filmmaker with mom issues instead of dad issues.
Based on other short films he’s made, pretty sure he’s got both. 😬
He stated in an interview that he has a wonderful relationship with his parents and still does to this day. He said a lot of pain was experienced by his family that he didn’t want to delve into but he made it clear that the reason he explores such dark themes is because both of his parents are artists and never gave him any creative or curiosity boundaries. I think he’s a fairly well adjusted guy. He just likes to explore these super dark themes in human beings.
I've got both! :P
This is what makes Beau is afraid so refreshing .
A mother's love may destroy a child's childhood
and this is one of the reasons why ari aster is such a big influence on me for filmmaking. to tell this story like he has in 15 minutes blows my mind.
Really? Can't really say its that much more different than a lot of other student films.
Phenom Menon have to disagree with you there lad. this is an early masterclass to how good a filmmaker he is.
There were a lot of amazing shots and edits but it was a pretty simplistic story that could've been told just as effectively in even half the time
@@JNelsonArt could have done, but you can say that about basically any narrative. if we cut everything down to the bare bones that we actually need it'd be a boring world.
This story could have been told in 30 seconds. What is with so many people acting like this guy is the second coming of Jesus?
Hear me out. In ari's other short film "the strange thing about the johnsons" at the beginning of the film you see a poster in the kids bedroom that has a bear and a blonde girl on it and we later found out that it was foreshadowing midsommer. In this short film we see a recurring poster featuring some campers. maybe sometime in the future we will get a camping horror film.
Fr?
True to the spirit of Pixar.
Disappointment Blvd. is Ari Aster’s new film. It’s a Horror Drama i guess
@@maximus025 its looking like his new one is going to basically be a full version of his short “beau” and have the character battle with sleep deprivation and paranoia as a person vs self conflict
@@tyssin source?
5:37 I was so scared she'd pull out a razor or a cynide pill or something. The knowledge of this being by Ari Aster makes me on edge.
Only Ari Aster can make a silent short film that's only 16 minutes better than most modern day horror movies.
True bro 😂😂😂
I disagree... this movie was cheesy corny garbage..... the whole thing felt like an odd commercial.... waste of 15 minutes
@@seamusmcanulty3904 I suggest you watch real cheese corny garbage, then.
Silent short film? Jajajaja and the music?
@@seamusmcanulty3904 Oops you accidentally switched tabs before commenting
The beautiful cinematography. The driving away and coffin walk comparison that Ari did was incredible!
I wonder if Aster will ever make a feature-length silent film. That would be something special.
no it wouldnt
@@as-h989 Why ? I know I would watch it
@@as-h989yeah it would
Agreed. When it’s done well, you forget they’re not speaking. At least I do. It was about halfway through this where I even realized. Lol
Ari Aster as a director reminds me a lot of Wes Anderson, not their styles of directing themselves but how distinct their styles are, you could be watching a movie without knowing the director and be like “yep this is a Wes Anderson movie” or “yep this is an Ari aster movie”. Aster is the Wes Anderson of horror
Absolutely! There are a lot of shots here and in Midsommar (and probably his other movies, I just haven’t watched them yet) that we’re very Wes Anderson-esque
im writing an essay about that right now! about auteur theory and using ari aster as an example
@@mikekearney5949 i'd love to read it!!
100%
I don't think anyone would watch this and think 'this is definitely the guy who did Hereditary or Midsommar'. Hell, even in watching a Midsommar you'd be forgiven for not realizing it was the same director as Hereditary.
Her unwillingness to let him go caused her to miss out on more experiences with him in the next stage of his life. She never would have lost him if she let him go.
I feel like this short could also be used as a metaphor for severe emotional abuse at the hands of an unhealthy, codependent parent. She wanted to make him "feel bad" so he wouldn't leave her behind, grow up or become independent. She needed to do whatever she had to, to prevent that from happening even it meant maiming him. The horrible part is that the wonderful ambiguity Aster managed to give her character: she didn't mean to do it. The worse part about abuse is how often the perpetrators don't always mean to cause the harm they inflict, they are just so driven by their own inner turmoil that the abuse happens as an extension of themselves. By the time she realized what she had done, and she tried to give him the medicine to "feel good" it was too late, the poison had already infected his heart. In the same way, if you spend the most of your child's life being overly critical, overstepping boundaries, guilting your child, shaming your child, making them "feel bad" about themselves, doubt themselves or treating them as if they are not their own person but an extension of yourself and what you need from them, these are the behaviors they will learn to internalize and begin to inflict upon themselves in their relationships with other people. To escape that fate means of a lifetime of work and *_struggle_* to counteract your own "programming". Without a doubt, Ari Aster is the Master at psychological horror, mostly because of how accurate a depiction it is of something common or possible in real life. Hats off to you, Sir!
It's not a metaphor if that's what literally happens lol
Well-written comment.
If you say he’s a master at psychological horror, then he definitely is
@@zaynezmuda8247 be quiet clown you ain't as smart as you think
great comment
The action figure is meant to represent the son; youth and prosperity, bringing joy to others and symbolically "saving" those around him (his mom, in this case). And absolutely foreshadows the burial of the both of them. His dreams and hope are dead, with the best years of his life stolen. They were both forgotten about over time, while one was disinterest in a childs eyes, the other was disinterest of a child's needs through his mother. :(
Additionally, it shows how the thought of her son used to bring her so much joy. Finding his old toy brought back great memories that she cherished. Now when she finds it it’ll be a horribly saddening thing. A depressing reminder that her son is gone forever.
Also the toy was a space explorer / superman type, the kind that goes on adventures across the world. It never got to "blast off", it ended up buried before flying on its own. And if you want to go deeper, the toy is trapped between the stems of the plants (which could also be interpreted as "mother nature", which in this case gave life but also tied it up and didn´t let it take off). And if you want to go even deeper - and I might be just be seeing things here - at the beginning the toy is sewn in as part of the white blanket, as well as tied between the stems.
Have been hearing about this man's work for a while , his chit chat on Variety finally led me to introduce myself to his films ...starting with this . I learnt earlier that his movies turn dark gradually , it didn't disappoint.
If you haven't done so already check out Hereditary and Midsommar.
This was a truly a disturbing movie but it's sad to say this has been happening far too often nowadays. I'm a mother and I could see how unhealthy this relationship was between the mother and son. You want the best for your children if it means moving out of your home and starting a life of there own then you support them. This is why mental health is so important. We sometimes ignore or don't see the signs until it's far too late to do anything about it.
That calendar to soup transition rivals Edgar Wright
0:27
Reminds me "Midsommar" Opening... Cool. 😎👌🏻🎬
Thank you for uploading all these shorts Issac. I appreciate it greatly.
My favorite part is mom making the sandwich after the midpoint. The actor did a great job of showing the dissonance in her face as she rejects the descent part of her brain trying to intervene.
The re-watchability of Ari Aster's films is what makes them so masterful, IMHO. The first time is merely a prerequisite to peel back the layers, immersive as it may be. The experience of the film, itself, changes what you're paying attention to next time you watch it. To have a work of art that transforms with the audience... I have no time to explain how powerful that is.
Imagine being a doctor and being called for symptoms like this in a healthy young man with no discernable etiology. I would not have considered poisoning in my differentials...but from now on I will.
Poisonings go back centuries and have usually been linked with women killers. Always remember that poison is a possibility! Kings had taste testers for this very reason. There are so many! Lol. Many, many things will damage the liver but not be detected immediately, death comes over a few days. If you start to research these things, you will be Very nervous of who has had contact with your food 😃
okay here we go, i just finished watching the strange things about the johnsons and that fucked me up real bad so let’s see this one.
i’m already blown away and i’m only four minutes in.
(i apologize in advance for any spoilers if y’all are scrolling through the comments while watching like i do) i think it’s so interesting to see the moms reactions and emotions, she’s watching her son grow up without her and she misses him. she’s envious of the relationship her son and his wife have, i loved when she looked over at her husband and he was asleep. the scene where the son taps her shoulder and the light shines on her face is wonderful because it represents that he’s the light of her life. she has to find things to distract her like the gardening. she spends lots of time reminiscing of times spent with him. i didn’t expect this short to turn dark, but i really should have because he’s ari. she feels guilty about wanting to hold him back in life, but enjoys taking care of him when he’s sick again as if he were a child. she misses feeling needed by him. the way this is shot reminds me so much of hereditary, it gives me that dollhouse vibe when she’s running to his room in the middle of the night. the fact that not a single word was spoken this whole time is mind boggling to me, it shows how talented the actors and ari are. there’s so much symbolism in this short too, which is really fun to pick out and analyze. wow, just wow.
He’s a pretty good film dude huh?
Should've known something was up when Mom buys Feel Bad Sickness Prompter
That she already had it sitting in a cupboard? Super sus.
This one hits close to home. Dependent, addicted mother.. poisoning her family, her child for her own tranquility.
What a hell of a depiction.....the literal silence in comparison to the mental and emotiona truel silence the disease of munchausen actual has. Ari is absolutely genius.....
I love Ari’s films they give more questions than answers really makes you think and makes it enjoyable to watch more than once because he puts so many small details you notice something new every time
Even before the mother went all drastic, looking at her visions of the future mixed with memories of the past, this mother's level of dependence on her son for her happiness is disturbing. Why doesn't she have friends? Why doesn't she cultivate a deeper relationship with her husband? She just pines, like she's nothing and no one without her son. She gives his college girlfriend the weirdest look, like she's shocked by another woman "taking her place" as lady #1 in her son's life (or sharing it, anyway), even though that would be the healthy thing for his development. All things considered, I'm really surprised that he's as outgoing and independent as he is.
This dynamic is frighteningly common (minus the murder). The number of women out there who see/treat their sons as a “sonsband”, are unwilling to accept that their son is his own person who deserves to live a normal life as he chooses, and attempt to ruin his adult relationships and independence is too fucking high.
Why is it “healthy” to be obsessive and over prioritize one person in a romantic relationship but yet a parent can’t even commit a fraction of that with their own flesh and blood in the real world without being accused of being “unhealthy” and other unsavory adjectives???
I personally don’t plan on ever having children for various reasons, some of which are philosophical. But I’ve never understood why romantic and sexual obsession is all well and good but no other sort of platonic infatuation or dependence is?
I know couples who aren’t even individuals anymore..just gone to the “we” and chained to their new “#1” or else…
That doesn’t seem healthy to me in the slightest, and yet it’s normalized at the expense of any other relationship (which is conversely shamed).
@Lucii Anne Sounds like you’re just mad that some beau of yours didn’t climb up your @ss far enough and still loved his family..that’s always how it is.
The “DILs” are hypocritically everything and worse than what they accuse the “MILs” of. (Using these terms for the sake of being succinct).
Is a familial relationship supposed to end in childhood or something?
“Adult relationships” are not only romantic/sexual.
Also, independence and individuality are usually shattered the moment any person begins a romantic relationship..it’s pretty disturbing to witness.
Far worse and far more obsessive than any other parent/child relationship I’ve witnessed.
So just because you consider that side of the coin “normal” doesn’t mean it’s any better than the other sort of relationship you deride.
(This film is an extreme case but I know your type..you’re no different with the less hyperbolic version of this. Your ego needs you to be #1 to your partner so you become vitriolic and accusatory towards any other relationship they have with other people, be it family or even certain friends).
Pot, meet kettle.
@@lukasribin4168 It's... not. I think you misunderstood what said. I said it WOULD be healthy for him to have someone other than his mother as his "one and only" woman in his life, and that what the mother is doing isn't right or healthy. It's *never* a healthy dynamic to obsess over someone else, to cut yourself off from anything else but that person.
Adults don't have friends.
Watch this backwards. Happy ending :)
...and I was kicked out my house at 15. Lol. He's such a fucking good director.
Ari Aster wrote this and directed it, so therefore it's got to be a masterpiece. I love his work.
That was a super heavy viewing experience!! So good!
that took a lot more out of me than i thought it would....holy shit.
Anybody else thinks it looks a lot like Toy Story? Loved it!
This is like a Twilight Zone episode
The little boy from Stepmom grew up! I barely recognized him until he smiled.
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HIM!
big 'Up' vibes from this short but wit an evil twist, I loved it 😈
The editing in this short is masterful
0:46 I thought this was John Mulaney for a sec, and I got incredibly excited.
Thank you so much for posting this
this happened to my buddy eric
Greatest letterboxd review of all time
"this happened to my buddy eric" - (7.8) MetaCritic
Wait maybe I've been drinking Feel Bad every morning on accident
Same….same
If you’re here, you probably just saw Beau is Afraid…
Dude looks like he could be Joseph Gordon-Levitts brother
Classic devouring mother story
So how fucked up was Ari's family tho
thank you for the upload!!
it means a lot
it starts like Toy Story and ends in the darkest way possible , that's how ari aster makes movie
Oh wow ok didn’t expect this to summarize my life but sure why not
....are u ok
Bro I hope you got out of there
WTF
More common than you think.
I understand her it's hard your children go their own way - it's sad but Life. Ari ist great he took little things and great a big Story.
Imagine a live action, messed up Toy Story short but the house is located on Mulholland Drive...
The college montage from 3:20-3:55 reminds me a lot of Euphoria's style.
I think Sam Levinson and Ari Aster have both been huge influences for the 2010s
There was another movie I saw once that opened just like this. It was about a girl who tags along on a trip with her bf and his friends and they stay with a bunch of silly sounding people in white doing fun silly things 🐻 🔥 🌸
God his suburban portraits, especially the rooms of the teenagers, are so over-the-top sugary in the best way. Really lovely soundtrack, especially that waltz during the 'off to college' montage.
My favourite of his shorts.
Ari Aster never disappoints
Ohmygooood, everything is executed perfectly. From camera work, pacing, production, design, story, and the star of the film is the sound design! I've never seen so much 'perfectness' in a freaking 15 min film. I guess I need to watch more Ari Asters
Amazing actresses
that title card is so gorgeous
so does that mean the first half of the movie was a wishdream of her that she had not poisoned her son and he can start a successful life and be happy and the second half was the reality that she had poisoned him so that he never leaves her? do i interpret that right?
sorry for my bad english.
I believe you are correct.
And your English is great!
Yeah. She kept making him unwell so he wouldn’t leave her and she ended up killing him. Typical psycho with munchausens
@@MrAdryan1603 Great is a stretch, come on. Wishdream isn't a word.
@@madelinebitts2766 Jesus, calm down. Otherwise, the English is great
Yes.
And your English is better than most Americans, including myself :)
Seriously how messed up is Ari Aster’s Mom?
Captivating silent short. But man you have to be seriously deranged to imagine stories like those :)
The angles and the switch up scenes. Straight out of a Pixar film
i love him for this portrayal of emotional incest correctly
siempre Ari aster siempre termina sus cortos y películas con una secuencia o imagen simbólica e inquietante llena de belleza y horror.., el .. juguete entre flores muertas es mas que triste y perturbador.
Soooo... his appendix burst at a really coincidental time, and it killed him. But the mother will forever believe it was her fault. Ouch.
that is an interesting interpretation that i never considered
Anyone looking forward to beau is afraid?
Wish he would apply more of this upbeat asthetic to his filmmaking and just give us one of the best romance films since Casablanca already. Man, it would be superb.
this is such a gorgous film i absolutely love it
damn this short film touch me hard !!! Ari Aster is true genius !!!
Now that is a true Ari Aster movie
Wow what a tear-jerker
That doctor wants to "jump" to conclusions.
Wow. Well Done, Ari Aster!! I’m sure naming this ‘Munchausen by proxy’ would have been much clunkier of a title, but we get what you were going for. 👍🏽 The choice to have no dialogue was a good one, and the spot on John Mulaney double made this bearable instead of terrifying.
Anne Bruecks: I seem to vaguely recall that Munchausen By Proxy was more about the adult getting attention as a martyr of sorts Through the child's illness.
This, however, seems to be that the mother wasn't interested in getting attention. She was only interested in keeping her son and, in a way, freezing time; and in doing that, miscalculated and killed him instead.
Being that I'm only going by a very old memory of the disease -- because I'm too lazy to actually look it up again -- I'm very likely wrong.
haha
I'd like to read "Mao Way or the Highway"
Is there a connection to this pandemic? The reference to China seems so “random”...
@@piecesofme8531 The film was made in 2013, so I'd assume not
@@scleroctenophore Have you seen that Rockefeller report written in 2010? ‘Lockstep’... They oddly predicted the worldwide wearing of masks and “draconian” government restrictions. And that a virus would come out of China. And then Ari Aster comes out with a movie about killing elders at 72 and being indoctrinated (even the audience) into a cult in 2019. All of these strange “coincidences”. 🧐
Looked for this after rewatching Hereditary & Midsummar before seeing Beau Is Afraid tomorrow!!!! Man, Ari must have had a majorly fkd up family 😲😂
She couldn’t just get a dog or something? Goddamn.
Ari Aster coloca toda estes novos diretores no bolso
That was some dark ass shit
I feel bad for the girl who never got to spend her life with the boy. Her soulmate or at least partner was taken from her before she even had the chance to meet him just because his mother was selfish and wouldn’t share him. The mother smothered him too much to the point nobody could have him.
I know it was all in her imagination but I’m just thinking all the people who would now never have the option to share happy moments with this kid because his life was taken too soon. There’s some metaphors in here 🧐🧐something to think about 😔
Ik. That's one of the even sadder aspects of this stort film. I just started crying
Yeah, shit like that happens to the best of us. Even here in Quebec. Some women can be very cruel.Psychoanalysis organisations need to set up offices at every corner here.
Simple story, great execution complete with great music, cinematography, editing and performances. Title seems a bit on the nose though.
Blue saw Toy Story 3 and said bet I can make horror movie out of this.
The dad is played by the actor playing the Librarian in "Kill List", a movie that inspired "Hereditary".
JFC it’s the kid from Stepmom and this is 8 years ago. I feel so old now.
THIS TRANSITION
It’s literally my life. Except ofc my mom doesn’t poison me physically. I still love my mom. But I do not have any passions or anything except from being her child. I was born to just take care of her.
Ari Aster is a GENIUS!!!!! Cruel portrait of Munchausen by Proxy....
omg marvelous mrs maisel
Me gustó mucho el contraste de la escena donde la mamá corre tras del auto, ya que prácticamente el hijo se estaba yendo de su lado. Y la escena final, donde se estaban llevando el ataúd y ella estaba tras él, ya que pese a sus intentos de que se quedase con ella, al final se fue de su lado y definitivamente.
"so what do you say.....ya d here?" "I already told you........i try to revive people in ari aster silent films.......can't you understand that?!?!? what the hells the matter with you people?!?!?"
Okay but did anyone else flinch at 3:14? 🤣😱
same here! haha
Did anyone else care?🤪
@@justinrodriguez8844 apparently 21 people did. No need to be rude 🤙🏼
@@justinrodriguez8844 shutup
You are the man
I love ari aster
hey, could u upscale this film to 1080p pls because the film's color tone will be better
DAWG, that football scared the fuck outta me lol