Ari Aster’s latest is stuffed with funny signs, cheeky parodies, and blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em references.
editor Will Elder coined to describe the jokes crammed into every page of the satirical magazine.
are all simply dumb jokes that Ari Aster put into the movie to amuse himself. And there are a lot of dumb jokes to unpack.The city block where Beau lives is home to a soup truck, the convenience store Cheapo Depot, and a pair of peep-show parlors called Asstral Projection and Erection Injection.
And although we see it on his busted computer monitor, not his phone, a screenshot of Beau’s plane ticket shows that he’s flying from “Corinna, CR”—a reference to the 1994 Whoopi Goldberg-Ray Liotta dramedy. He’s flying to Wasserton, where his mother, Mona Wasserman, lives. This woman is truly inescapable.After Beau is stabbed in the side and palm , he’s run over by a truck and wakes up in what’s clearly a teenage girl’s bedroom.
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