waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2017)

I went to the movies recently with three other people with tickets we purchased at an attractively discounted price. Which movie? Upon reading reviews we settled on "Mother". Just a nudge beyond 2 hours long, and one of the greatest waste of 2 hours for a long time.
What on earth is this about? I hated it, as did my fellow movie goers. And then, in that post movie discussion room - the men's' toilet - all were scoffing at what they had just watched. So, the next day, onto google I went and read the reviews again, and found a website that explained it all.
So it's an allegory to certain events, set to a modern semi-horror movie. OK, great idea, but in my opinion, surely there are better ways to make allegories. Hopeless if the allegories are so tucked away that I have to research it online to make sense of it. OK, so now it does, and I look back at so many scenes and i find myself thinking, "oh OK, so that's what that was about". And I have found myself saying that so many times about so many scenes.
But in the end, as a movie, it seemed so incredibly disjointed and devoid of understanding. To watch the movie as a standalone story it failed. Sure, make your allegories, but weave them into a movie so that the movie flows, is enjoyable, and you don't have to research to find out what the point of it is!! In my opinion, it failed miserably as a movie for the movie goer who simply wants to watch a movie to escape life for two or so hours. Forget it if you want watch a movie that has another take on good-beats-bad, love-conquers-all, or an exploration of human relationships in all their forms - failed, successful, homosexual, marriage, parenthood, etc, etc. in whatever movie genre - science fiction, romance, horror, crime etc.
Reading the 'explanation', sure, it makes a bit more sense, but if one wasn't versed in the meaning before the movie, it was simply a bundle of scenes put together and you would come out thinking what everyone else did - what was that about? None of the reviews I read before watching it would reveal much about the plot out of respect of spoiling it for some people, so, out of respect, neither shall I. But, I will say, that had I read the plot and the explanation I would have been a lot less scathing of it. So in my opinion, read the plot. The movie will make a lot more sense when you watch it. I can't see how reading the plot and allegories beforehand can possibly spoil this abomination of a movie.
The allegories were too camouflaged. If one has to resort to the web to work out what the hell I just watched, then the movie fails in my opinion. And just how many people will bother to go online to gain an understanding of what they just saw? As for the rave reviews, honestly I wonder if people get so blown away by movies just because they are off center and mystical and contorted in what they are trying to say. Production wise , and acting wise, I have no complaints there.
For me, the only scenes worth watching were the shots of Jennifer Lawrence's adorable seemingly perpetual teenage good looks and the one frontal shot of her wearing a see-through nightshirt. Very tasteful and teasingly hinting at a lovely female form.
Apart from that, I hated "Mother". I would never watch it again. Understanding it or not. My three other friends were just as scathing, as were the few people I had the pleasure of briefly discussing the movie with over a few moments of liberation post movie. In summary, the worst movie I've seen in years. And pardon some of the puns in my review. That might make a bit more sense after you've seen the movie.