Another Man Using The Female Body as an Allegorical Object of Violence

Rating: 2/10 (19 September 2017)

So, Darren Aronofsky makes this graphically violent horror film in which Jennifer Lawrence has every type of violence perpetrated on her body for the audience's entertainment. But that's OK, see, because it's this METAPHOR for how CHRISTIANS are raping the earth (mother!) by a blind devotion to a patriarchal god. So, you know, male ego/bad, female creator/good. Christians/bad, seculars/good.
So here we have 1) Aronofsky manipulating the theater going public using shock value to sell a movie to line his own pockets 2) That shock value being at the expense of a woman's body 3) Traumatizing the general public 4) A man speaking for women 5) A filmmaker normalizing binary stereotypes (newsflash: all humans have an ego and all humans are capable of being creative) 6) Creating an "us vs. them" smug superiority of non-religious people thinking they are morally superior to religious people (not necessarily, folks)
So now the discussion/controversy is all about RELIGION and the BIBLE and how men SUCK and women are AWESOME and how STUPID religious people are, but it's not even women telling the story and it's USING THE VIOLATION OF WOMEN'S BODIES to make a point. What it IS is traumatizing women watching and normalizing violence against women's bodies that are apparently metaphorical objects to represent "nature" in allegorical tales. It's white male progressive finger pointing using "standing up for women" as cover to promote a wholly unproductive (not to mention reductive) black and white view of "religion."
This film is supposed to be this super clever bait and switch. Like, "we are going to trick you into watching a film that you think is a horror film but is really this feminist film about how we should all be nice to nature because it's female." If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck--it's some man making millions off of psycho-porno-pathic violence against women for entertainment. But it's 2017, and Aronofsky wants to think of himself as progressive, so this "allegory" is how he's keeping himself in denial that he's being just as exploitive of women's bodies as every other horror film.
It's just crap piled on crap piled on crap masquerading as some sort of profound allegory. But it's just crap. And offensive.