History Film / BeauIsAfraid

* CantHaveSexEver: Beau believes that having sex would kill him so he remains chaste all the way to his forties.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The "helper health monitor" Beau is made to wear eerily resembles an ankle bracelet worn by parolees. [[spoiler:That's because it more or less ''is.'']]

* HiddenDisdainReveal

** [[spoiler: Immediately after Toni kills herself by drinking a can of blue paint, causing her mother Grace to discover her body and mistakenly attacking Beau thinking he did it to her.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: Jeeves served with Toni's brother in Caracas and is shown prone to sudden attacks of rage, implied to be from PTSD. He's introduced punching the window of his trailer and also tries to attack Beau when he was having a bad trip, with Roger having to subdue him with several syringes of tranquilizers. After [[spoiler:Toni's suicide]] Jeeves spends the rest of the movie trying to hunt down Beau, likely believing him to be responsible for it.

* BenevolentMonsters: Played with. [[spoiler: Beau's dad, a.k.a. the Penis Monster, isn't actually malicious against him and even express happiness upon their encountering him, saying "Beau? My beautiful boy!", albeit in a very creepy voice. It doesn't make Beau any less scared of him, though.]]

* BenevolentMonsters: Played with. [[Spoiler: Beau's dad, a.k.a. the Penis Monster, isn't actually malicious against him and even express happiness upon their encountering him, saying "Beau? My beautiful boy!", albeit in a very creepy voice. It doesn't make Beau any less scared of him, though.]]

* PuffOfLogic: A variation and played for drama. When reencountering his sons in his fantasy during the Orphan's play, Beau wonders out loud how he has children since he never had sex. Beau returns to reality upon this realization.

** HiddenDisdainReveal: Played with for Beau towards his abusive mother. He has a deeply troubled relationship with Mona and struggles to admit to any resentment, the worst he says being that if she wasn't shown love and devotion the way she wanted it, she didn't believe he loved her. His therapist tries to goad him into admitting he wishes she were dead, but Beau emphatically denies it, is shocked and distraught on finding out that she did die shortly after he last spoke with her, and weeps and dreams about her often. [[spoiler: After she forces him into an attic to see his imprisoned twin and grotesque inhuman father, Beau is at first apologetic and begging for forgiveness, but then on her giving a MotiveRant about her hating him on ''top'' of all that, Beau finally snaps, grabs her by the throat, and starts strangling her with a cold, hard look of fury on his face. He stops after a minute or so and then seems shocked by her apparent death (again), but it definitely suggests that the "repressed feelings of resentment and hate" thing is indeed mutual, only buried far deeper in [[HonorThyParent Beau]], who's been conditioned all his life to apologize, obey his mother, and be an ExtremeDoormat.]]

* HiddenDisdainReveal: During their confrontation in the third act, Beau's mother admits that she hates him. This leads to him [[MomentOfWeakness trying to strangle her]].
* HiddenDisdainReveal: Played with for Beau towards his abusive mother. He has a deeply troubled relationship with Mona and struggles to admit to any resentment, the worst he says being that if she wasn't shown love and devotion the way she wanted it, she didn't believe he loved her. His therapist tries to goad him into admitting he wishes she were dead, but Beau emphatically denies it, is shocked and distraught on finding out that she did die shortly after he last spoke with her, and weeps and dreams about her often. [[spoiler: After she forces him into an attic to see his imprisoned twin and grotesque inhuman father, Beau is at first apologetic and begging for forgiveness, but then on her giving a MotiveRant about her hating him on ''top'' of all that, Beau finally snaps, grabs her by the throat, and starts strangling her with a cold, hard look of fury on his face. He stops after a minute or so and then seems shocked by her apparent death (again), but it definitely suggests that the "repressed feelings of resentment and hate" thing is indeed mutual, only buried far deeper in [[HonorThyParent Beau]], who's been conditioned all his life to apologize, obey his mother, and be an ExtremeDoormat.]]

* ClassicalAntiHero: Beau is far from your typical strong heroic protagonist, he's a neurotic and extremely anxious man who's constantly filled with self-doubt, but he isn't really a bad person either, and you can't help but root for him.

** [[spoiler: Elaine dies mid-orgasm while having sex with Beau, her body apparently having instantly stiffened in rigor mortis, before being casually carried out and disposed of by Mona's house staff.]]
** [[spoiler: Jeeves is impaled through the skull by Beau's father, a giant penis monster.]]
** [[spoiler: Finally, Beau is trapped in a motorboat whose motor explodes, causing the boat to violently capsize and flip over, trapping him underwater. He unfortunately doesn't die instantly from this, as we then see the boat shake for about a minute until it finally stops.]]

* UniversalRemoteControl: Grace tells Beau to turn on Channel 78 on the television, [[spoiler: which shows CCTV footage of Beau which, when he fast-forwards it, shows scenes and settings from the final act]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Beau's restless neighbor, who plays loud music during the night, ends up causing Beau * Given what we learn at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: it's hard to say if the neighbor was really "unwitting".]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Beau discovering his father is really a giant, grotesque penis monster.]]