If Bilbo had never left his hobbit hole. . .

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2017)

How would the Hobbit have played out if Bilbo and the dwarfs had never left bag end? Mother! gives us a glimpse into the strange occult relationship wound tightly around a group of unexpected guests and the stains they leave on our soul. It's truly though provoking that one can live a life on cruise control that appears to be unwavering until a single drop in time of an others company diverts one to an entirely new plain of existence. Much like a murderers life is out of their hands once they are confronted, the meeting of people that had until now been divergent from our path creates a situation unfathomably out of reach to our own desires.
Mother! creates a seamless transition from the mundane to a rich tapestry of feelings and emotions almost completely disassociated from the norm. How does one measure the relevance of time by the day? The hour? The minute? The second? The infinite number of measurements between each of those? Aronofsky takes the audience on such a symbolic journey crying out to be dissected, confronted, and discussed. The very nature of such a film allows for a different experience from each point of view? How would we each comprehend the messages and symbols from these various positions defines a work of art as experienced from so much diversity.
Great directors have seldomly had the reins to truly strike out and create an experience so exceptionally unique as to ask their audience to have faith. Mother! delivers this promise that hand holding has no place in art.
Gone are the long wide shots of splendor and cinematography so often ripped straight from Kubrick himself. We are isolated, alone, and experiencing an existence out of our hands. When the final credits roll, have you finally come to grip with the fact that your life is not your own?