Backdrop poster for BEEF (2023)
BEEF (2023)
Poster for BEEF
BEEF (2023)
By far, A24's most touching, evocative, and ambitious piece of work. Beef deals with one of the most important things in human nature, a concept in which the world is built on - Human Perception. Throughout the show, we're put into the shoes of Danny and Amy, and navigate their hardships in their personal lives, as well as the hardships between the two characters. The bouts of self doubt these two characters have are all the more relatable, from not knowing the consequences of our actions, BADLY misreading situations we get ourselves into, to hurting the ones we love, on (for some reason) by purpose or not. When everything feels too much, we seek an escape. Death, even the thought of ending our own life, or a deeply cherishable connection with someone, whether that be a friendship or a relationship, or something in between. When we (especially men) keep these emotions bottled up and go about our everyday lives, who knows how long it is till that irritability turns into something perilous, to ourselves, or to others. But at the same time, it gets harder to dispose of this pent up frustration, so what do we do? How long do we wait for it to diminish by itself? 'Beef' presents this to you in the most darkly comedic outcomes. It takes a long time to realize how truly miserable you are, and even longer to see that it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything, can you begin to find a way to be happy. Steven Yeun, you are the man.

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