Mother! is not a film, it's a consciousness shift.

Rating: 10/10 (16 September 2017)

Mother! is probably one of the most powerful consciousness expanding films ever made. (Not that Darren Aronofsky doesn't have a habit of turning film into some new-form-of-quantum-communication, the man is fluent in "third-language!") Mother! is a blindingly obvious baseball-bat-to-the-head of WTF earthlings? Wake up and smell the reality. Seduced by the rich production quality, the deep, wave-like surrealist ambiance, the characterizations, the Oscar worthy performances— the list is endless...I sat there with my chin in my lap. Think of Mother like an optical illusion: Those who see the image hidden in plain sight, all agree on what it is, and are astounded at the artistry of how the trick was done, those who don't see the hidden image are furious because all they see are random patterns! I just love this Director!!! Ha! Let Mother! speak to you. Each viewer will be impacted differently, but trust me, you will never forget this film, and I guarantee, like good, 70's LSD, it will flashback on you, hitting you with out-of-the-blue-aha-moments from here til-next-Tuesday and beyond. I make it a point to avoid any knowledge about a film before I see it, and that is the most powerful way to see Mother!