A radical, surrealistic classic on a par with "Lost Highway," "Waking Life," and "Dead Man" ...

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 2017)

Mother! has as its agenda the sort of attraction/repulsion to carrying a baby that reminded me of a passage in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland (free-spirit Frenesi Gates resenting the birthed child after she's been the baby's parasitical "host" for nine months) -- and, of course, Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. It seems no-one else has taken up the subject, or else, copped to that aspect of the experience, so shrouded in social mores are people (one *may* think of the womanly desire expressed as "I want to have his baby" more purely rendered, simply, as "I want him to come inside me").
What's curious about the reactions people are having is that it *doesn't even occur to them* this is the movie's agenda ... stand or fall on its own, still, it seems to strike a nerve not-but-buried in folks.
Hence the confusion.