Beau Wassermann

Beau Wassermann is the titular anti-heroic main protagonist of the tragicomedy horror film Beau is Afraid.
He is a mild-mannered but paranoia-ridden man who has many fears. As he embarks on a adventure to get home to attend his mother’s funeral, confronting his greatest fears along the way.
== Biography ==
Beau Wasserman is the son of a famous and wealthy businesswoman, Mona, who is responsible for building a large conglomerate empire.
Beau is extremely anxious and living alone in a crime-ridden city. He prepares for a flight to see his mother for the anniversary of his father's death but misses his plane after his keys and luggage are stolen from his door. Beau calls his mother to explain the situation, but she dismisses him. After having been locked out by deranged homeless people for the night, he attempts to call his mother, only to have it answered by a UPS driver who tells him that she was decapitated in an accident. After violent confrontations with an intruder at home, then by a police officer and a murderer on the street, Beau is hit by a food truck.
Beau wakes up wounded two days later in the house of a married couple, Grace and Roger, who live with their angsty teenage daughter Toni, and care for an unstable veteran named Jeeves, who was their late son's battle buddy after he was killed in action. Beau calls Mona's attorney, Dr. Cohen, who chastises him and informs Beau that despite the Jewish custom to lay the body to rest as soon as possible, her last wish was not to be buried until he was present. Roger promises to take Beau to his mother's estate as soon as possible but insists Beau rest until he is healed. On the day of Beau's release, Toni attempts to force him to drink a can of paint, before doing it herself, committing suicide. Grace walks in on Beau standing over Toni's body and violently blames him for her death. As Beau flees into the woods, Grace sends Jeeves after him.
Lost in the wilderness, Beau comes upon a group of traveling theatre actors named "The Orphans of the Forest.” He is invited to their rehearsal and becomes entranced by the play, imagining himself as the protagonist, who spends his entire life looking for his family after they’re separated by a flood. A man approaches Beau and informs him that he knew his father, who he says is still alive. The troupe is ambushed by Jeeves, where he slaughters several actors in the process; Beau flees deeper into the woods.
Beau hitchhikes the rest of his way to the estate, only to find that he had just missed his mother's funeral. Beau is awakened from a nap when a woman arrives late for the service, and realizes it is Elaine. They reconnect before having sex. Beau is terrified that he's going to die upon climaxing but is relieved when he survives. Elaine, however, has died mid-orgasm, her body frozen stiff. Mona then appears from the shadows and reveals that she was alive and spying on him all along his journey. She shames Beau for not loving her enough and he demands to know the truth about his father. Mona takes him to the attic, where Beau learns that he not only has a twin brother, but that his father is actually a giant anthropomorphic penis-shaped monster. At that moment, Jeeves breaks into the house and is killed by the monster. After further humiliation from his mother, an enraged Beau briefly strangles her before she collapses.
In shock, Beau leaves the estate on a motorboat. After entering a cave, the boat's motor begins to stall, and he suddenly finds himself in a crowded arena on trial for being a bad son, with Mona and Dr. Cohen acting as prosecutors and a cheap lawyer defending Beau. With his feet glued to the boat, Beau tries to fend for himself and appeal to his mother, but she does not respond. Realizing he's completely hopeless in his situation, he decides to accept his fate. The motor explodes, capsizing the boat and drowning Beau.What actually happened to Bo is unknown, since either the film takes place in Bo's dream or part of the events is Bo's hallucination. Therefore, there may be several interpretations:
* Bo is still alive because everything he went through is a dream
* Mona is dead, and the subsequent appearance is a hallucination of Bo, which was caused by conscience for killing mom and drove Bo to suicide
* Bo fell asleep in the bathtub and the rest of the events are a dream, and when in a dream he drowned in a boat explosion, in reality he drowned in the bathroom.
None of the interpretations were confirmed by the director, leaving his fate unknown.
Category:Anti-Heroes
Category:Victims
Category:Cowards
Category:Presumed Deceased