It’s three hours long and has left audiences yelling at the screen. Our critic watched it twice.
.” But the movie’s sheer, over-the-top bluntness is part of the point. If Aster’s previous movies prompted viewers to scrutinize every frame for hidden clues—the Satanic cult symbol carved into a fateful utility pole inthrows them in your face, cramming the screen with more signs and symbols than it’s possible to take in at a glance. But reading those signs will only take you so far.
She’s keeping an eye on him, too. The spiral staircase in Mona’s house—which, at least in this context, evokes one half of a DNA strand—is lined with posed photos of the young Beau, but the only one of him as an adult is a random shot of him standing in the middle of his apartment, from an angle that suggests a security-camera screengrab. Across the street from Beau, there’s an MW convenience store whose “24–7” sign suggests her unceasing presence.
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