Current Events > Mother! - Would you watch this movie?

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTE_DBKpRY

This delusional freak show is two hours of pretentious twaddle that tackles religion, paranoia, lust, rebellion, and a thirst for blood in a circus of grotesque debauchery to prove that being a woman requires emotional sacrifice and physical agony at the cost of everything else in life, including life itself. That may or may not be what Aronofsky had in mind, but it comes as close to a logical interpretation as any of the other lunk-headed ideas I’ve read or heard. The reviews, in which a group of equally pretentious critics frustratingly search for a deeper meaning, are even nuttier than the film itself. Using descriptions like “hermeneutic structure,” “phantasmagoric fantasia,” “cinematic Rorsach test” and “extended scream of existential rage,” they sure know how to leave you laughing.

Lawrence, a woman restrained almost to the point of madness, lives in a creepy, remote mansion in the middle of nowhere with her husband (Javier Bardem), a rugged poet who refuses to give her a baby or even take her to bed. (Can a sensitive poet with erectile function also be an alpha male? Just asking.) As she grows more understandably neurotic every day, the house is invaded by nameless strangers (Ed Harris and gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer, looking unbelievably haggard) who interrupt the woman’s idyllic life with rude questions about sex, marriage, and why she isn’t trying harder to procreate. Every effort to throw them out is thwarted by her husband, who craves attention and idolatry from his fans. Then their two sons arrive, bringing violence and mayhem. Dishes smash. Furniture is demolished. A murder is committed. A mysterious bloodstain appears on the floor, opening up a hole to the story below. Soon the house in filled with mourners, all encouraged to stay as long as they like by the husband, who ignores his wife’s ensuing breakdown. Aronofsky derives tension from strange sounds and occurrences—a dying bee, a hot frying pan, an exploding light bulb covered with blood—filmed with unbearable tedium. As the uninvited guests grow in number, wrecking the plumbing, flooding the house with water, and littering the rooms with garbage, you begin to suspect there’s more to this depravity than misguided hospitality. Lawrence goes nuts before the audience does, displaying a remarkable talent for screaming “Stop!” at the top of her lungs—something I wished I had thought of first.


Just when you think she’s had all she can take, there’s more. A baby is born amidst blood-curdling screams of childbirth as Lawrence crawls over piles of corpses in labor, and unruly mobs carrying torches arrive in a scene that looks based on the Charlottesville riots. In the ultimate destruction of the female gender, Lawrence tries to save the baby she has always dreamed of to make life complete, but Fellini grotesques in preposterous Halloween costumes fill the screen and burn the house down. The New York Times critic arrogantly warns in his review: “Don’t listen to anyone who natters on about how intense or disturbing it is.” Sorry, pal, but a mob that burns a screaming baby and its mother alive, then turns cannibal, eats the baby and rips its heart out to flush down the toilet while Patti Smith sings about the end of the world pretty much fits my definition of both “intense” and “disturbing.” What’s yours?

Nothing about mother! makes one lick of sense as Darren Aronofsky’s corny vision of madness turns more hilarious than scary. With so much crap around to clog the drain, I hesitate to label it the “Worst movie of the year” when “Worst movie of the century” fits it even better.

I'm looking forward to seeing it based on who is involved. It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

I didn't read any of the shit you posted btw
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nah, I read up on its story on Wikipedia

I don't think it's for me.
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I'll wait for 3AM drunken netflix.

got an F cinemascore

Oops, I forgot to link to the source in the OP. I didnt write that.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/15/how-do-we-survive-paranoid-californians-prepare-for-nuclear-attack

@madadude

literally Darren fucking Aronofsky
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Pinotage posted...

It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

lol

Pinotage posted...

I'm looking forward to seeing it based on who is involved. It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

I didn't read any of the shit you posted btw

http://nationalpost.com/g00/entertainment/movies/as-an-assault-on-the-senses-mother-is-the-thinking-persons-rosemarys-baby

This is what a world without Roger Ebert has become...

Ok, I just read the plot summary for Rosemary's Baby. Is that the kind of crap they thought was scary in the 1960s?

Tell your children not to walk my way
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GregShmedley posted...

Pinotage posted...

I'm looking forward to seeing it based on who is involved. It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

I didn't read any of the shit you posted btw

What an unnecessarily rude post.

Sorry to clarify - I knew the TC didn't write said shit so this wasn't an attack at him.

I've been looking forward to seeing this for a while, "pretentious twaddle" is something I'd prefer to experience for myself with no review bias.
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Pinotage posted...

GregShmedley posted...

Pinotage posted...

I'm looking forward to seeing it based on who is involved. It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

I didn't read any of the shit you posted btw

What an unnecessarily rude post.

Sorry to clarify - I knew the TC didn't write said shit so this wasn't an attack at him.

I've been looking forward to seeing this for a while, "pretentious twaddle" is something I'd prefer to experience for myself with no review bias.

Before you go, read this: there are a couple moments in the movie where a very bright light will light up the entire theater. Look around at the faces of the audience for gratification.

Pinotage posted...

I'm looking forward to seeing it based on who is involved. It reminds me of Rosemary's Baby.

I didn't read any of the shit you posted btw

lmfao, this.
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68% on RT?
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leverageblargh posted...

rofl new account again?

Learn to take a hint and get your shit together kid

u mad

Someone I know saw an advance screening and based on what she told me, I think I'll pass.
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If I ever see it, it'll simply be so I have more ammo to throw at Aronofsky. F that guy.
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Now I kind of want to see it lol. Didn't read the spoiler part but that person bashing it has caused me intrigue.
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I'd catch it on HBO or something

HainoRocks posted...

If I ever see it, it'll simply be so I have more ammo to throw at Aronofsky. F that guy.

I liked pi, requiem for a dream, and even the fountain.
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pres_madagascar posted...

the fountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

Reviews i've seen have said its awful. From fans and critics
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Rosemary's Baby is awesome Balor.


And yeah I saw mother! today and it is fucking insane. The entire thing is this one giant biblical metaphor and its just utterly ridiculous in how blunt it is that I think it adds to the experience. It's a subtle horror film that leads to the most utterly incredible sequence near the end.
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People seem to hate it for one of the following reasons:

1. They don't understand what is going on (which seems hard to me because its so bluntly obvious, but I suppose people who don't know anything about Genesis and Adam and Eve, this movie would be lost on them.

2. People who were expecting something entirely different (this is easily why it got an F cinemascore, people expected a horror movie and instead they got the utter craziness that is this film, which is fair)

3. People think parts are too disturbing (which I guess is up to you)

4. People who think the metaphor is way to blunt to the point where the film thinks it is way more clever than it actually is, and that Aronofsky is being really pretentious with his film (which I actually agree with, but like I said I think the bluntness added to my enjoyment of it because it just turns the film into pure insanity, stressful yet fun insanity)

5. People who, idk just didn't like it (people like different things nbd)
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