A movie that makes you think and think and think

Rating: 7/10 (20 October 2017)

I don't like that the director was selfish to say his take on the meaning. I wish that he left it open for us to interpret it as we feel.
I went to this movie not knowing anything about it and I thought I got the meaning because it represented what I was feeling at the moment. I thought the movie was a piece of art in the way it makes us think. but then when I read the reviews and found out the real meaning, I didn't find it as genius! here what I thought I understood:
I thought Javier is a washed-up artist who hasn't had a piece for a long time so he married Jennifer who was his biggest fan because, as she said at the end of the movie, "he loved how much she loved him." he was hoping to get inspired by her. The other people in the movie represents her feelings. And Javier letting them in represents that he was passive towards this relationship because he wanted to provoke all these feelings to get inspired to write again. The house represents his washed-up talent and Jennifer Lawrence fixing it day by day represents his talent building up again for a new piece.
The first guest who Javier let in was the first feeling which was her admiration for him, being his biggest fan, and how did they got along and had hikes together. The "biggest fan" feeling was also "dying" because it is what happens after a while. The second guest and feeling was her maternity instinct, and everything Michelle Pfeiffer was saying represents that. Jennifer also was pregnant with an actual baby at this moment (at the beginning of the scene we see the fetus growing). The boy who died represents her lost baby, while the other boy who killed him and was "free in the woods" represents the potential of a second child who Jennifer is ignoring and focusing on grief for the first lost baby. This gets clearer when the father asked her to say something at the funeral and she asked "about your son?" but Javier said "both of their sons, one is still out there." The many and increasing people in the funeral represents all of her feeling building up not being able to handle them anymore. One was nice to her (maybe her pity and understanding) one represented stubbornness (who keeps sitting on the sink until she broke it, and so on. When the water pipes exploded it represents her actually exploding and finally talk it through and say what she feels. Then they make up and she gets pregnant.
The second baby here represents his new piece of work. She was the "mother" of this piece, the "inspiration." She took good care of it until it "kicked." We see here that he finished his piece the same time the baby kicked. When she was reading the piece, we saw the house rising from the ashes to a beautiful house with a green yard. This represents that the piece was extremely personal and intimate with private details that she does not want to share with the world. The phone rings and he answers with excitement and tells her that everybody loved it. Then immediately things get crazy again. The feelings are back but this time more and stronger. Here she starts realizing maybe he was using her and she feels she's not really special so she gets angry and concerned that the people will read about her intimate life. Here I think the people represent both her feelings and his fans, as they were clashing. The police who came later represents her protective feelings which want to get her out of there.
Then, she gave birth to the "piece" and Javier wants to share it to the world but she was protective of it because it was very personal (the craziness outside till this moment was just marketing started by the publisher). He then tries to convince her to share it with the world as he is the "father" too but she refuses. While she was asleep (represents him going behind her back) he betrayed her trust and shared his baby with the world (published the piece).
The piece "died" to her as it is not personal anymore and people started pointing at her as the "inspiration." Crazy fans even took it further to hate on her and even beat her up. she gets angry and decided to burn the house (maybe sue him!). Everything gets burned but him, he carries her from the ashes and she asked what to you want still and he says your love so he reaches to her love and it becomes that crystal. This shows that he feeds on the previous love as an inspiration for the next piece. This also makes us realize that when the previous crystal got broken it was a metaphor of his love to the previous girl, and who broke it? Her maternity instinct and her admiration for him, despite that he hates it when anybody gets to this room (his memory of his old love).
So, in short, the movie is about an artist who takes advantage of the women in his life to be inspired. like many selfish people in relationships.