This is a very unique experience and one that leaves you with so many thoughts and questions for sure !
The main star of the movie is Aubrey Plaza, she gives a great performance , her two co stars also were good acting wise.

[spoiler]Watching the movie the first part i was invested in the fight in the cabin brought some good subjects to talk about as we see themes of infidelity , feminism ...[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The second part was even more great , you get to see how an indie film is made behind the scenes , that was cool but the surprise was that the actors were the same from the first part but in another set of action and completly different roles , but the same elements in the first part are brought up in here in kind of reverse way ( Gabe's affair with Clair instead of Allison in the first part, Allison is the one broken with emotions instead of Clair in the first part )[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Now what does that mean , i think my understanding is Allison is geeting up from the dock and going to the cabin and sitting next to her journal to write : the two parts were essentially a movie she's writing to express her emotions and what she feels in real life and writes to scenarios with the same actors but different roles to express them , she has issues from her past and writing about them to make a movie and express them is what we see[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The bear thought at the end i don't know what that means , like i said it leaves you with questions and theories explaining what was going on . [/spoiler]

a movie within a movie within a movie. epic... except it's not

I do want to see Aubrey Plaza in more lead roles though

I’d really like to like Black Bear. I actually was really liking it a lot, even enjoying it, right up to the halfway point, where the whole thing comes crashing down faster than Kevin Spacey’s career.

Black Bear is divided into two parts; The Bear on the Road, and The Bear by the House (let’s call them BB1 and BB2); both parts end with the appearance of the titular Ursus americanus, but could very well have ended with a sign saying ‘Dead End’.

In a remote lake house in the Adirondacks, Gabe (Christopher Abbott) and Blair (Sarah Gadon), welcome Allison (Aubrey Plaza), an up-and-coming film director. Like the stereotypical artists, these three are creative and intelligent, but also childish and belligerent.

Allison is a bald-faced pathological liar, Gabe is immature and manipulative, and Blair doesn’t let her pregnancy get in the way of a burgeoning alcoholism (the casting, by the way, is spot-on). Their interactions are fraught with patronizing passive-aggressiveness.This is plain good ol’ rubbernecking fun. The dialogue is both obscene and highbrow(I especially enjoyed the use of the word “solipsistic”), but sadly the biggest insult, to the audience’s intelligence, takes the form of a cliffhanger —for lack of a better term — that segues into BB2.The second half is a meta-textual quagmire wherein there’s a movie-within-the-movie, but that inner movie isn’t really the movie we were watching thus far, so presumably there’s a hypothetical third movie buried somewhere in this conceptual nightmare.

If BB1 was a about a train wreck from which we could not take our eyes off, BB2 is just a train wreck, period. The only quality that crosses over from the first half is the acting, which is probably even better — but that just makes me feel sorry for the cast.

All things considered, what we have here are two drafts of the same admittedly good idea, which doesn’t equal a single finished product. Instead of going back to the drawing board, the writer/director has simply opted to present the same underdeveloped premise twice in a row, both times neglecting to come up with a proper conclusion.