There are some things to admire, and I laughed a few times, but this is another issue of mine with many movies in the 2020's. Even Aster's first 2 didn't have that feeling. He doubled down on all that was wrong with Beau Is Afraid.
So much messaging and meme like style. What happened to thrillers, or whatever this was meant to be, that showcased parts of society, without all the obvious and heavy handed social commentary, at the expense of any thrills, laughs, evoking any feeling....
I was watching The Insider the other night, and it has messages/social commentary, but it's never so obvious and clumsy, or scattered in it's approach. Primal Fear, I threw that one after, and it looks pretty closely at corruption/religion, heavy themes, but it never forgets that it is a movie.
This movie is like a Facebook post from a 50 year old man who mainlines political news. Or a meme. Something like that. It felt like 158 minutes of memes.