Mind BLOWN!

Rating: 8/10 (16 September 2017)

Darren Aronofsky's new film, mother!, is like going through one of those Halloween haunted houses not knowing what lurks in the next room or around the corner. At the same time, messing with your mind with cult-like images and grand disastrous set pieces. To put it bluntly, mother! will psychological blow your mind. Directed by the brilliant Darren Aronosfky, mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a nameless couple living in an early 19th century Victorian home somewhere away from of society. A couple strangers (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) enter the picture and are unwilling to leave. Then all hell breaks loose when more unwanted guests arrive.
There's no way to go into plot details without spoiling the film for those who dare, yes DARE, go see it. Let's just say, mother! takes you on an unexpected ride. You'll be wondering if Lawrence's character (again, she has no name) is going through psychotic episodes like: is she really seeing a beating, burned human heart coming up from the toilet and could that be a bloody vagina melting through the floorboards? Whatever these images mean to her (and us), will certainly be answered in the third act. Is this a horror film like Rosemary's Baby? Could be. Is this a very elaborate Twilight Zone episode? Perhaps. Whatever it is, mother! is the darkest, most twisted and definitely most original movie I've seen all year long.