It's not allegory if its obvious.

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2019)

Mother! is very heavy-handed. It constantly bludgeons the audience with biblical allegory but it's done at such an inartful and elementary level that there's no room for the metaphorical. The result is that by about halfway through you throw your hands up because it's so nonsensical. It has neither an actual plot nor moves in any real direction. Its like watching a kindergartner describe their day: this happened then this happened then this....There is no point! There is no story, just a recital of events.
What a pretentious bore. It's intentionally cloudy and Aranofsky seems to have thrown some elements in simply to obfuscate and make a certain portion of the audience think he's oh so smart. I need some smart person to explain to me for example what the point was of having Mother add ochre to her water and drink it whenever she didn't feel well. Just to remind us that she's Mother Earth? We get it!! I almost gave up on it about halfway through but thought to myself, maybe something interesting will happen yet. Nope. Just more pretentiousness. God is narcissistically insane apparently, as "Him" keeps repeating the same events over and over, presumably trying to get different results. Why else bother? At one point he says to create is what he does. I guess an eternal being has to entertain themself somehow. Seriously, at its core this movie is actually incredibly anti-religion. None of the zealots that come to visit Him have any redeeming qualities at all, not a single one, and in fact each of them seems to represent one of the worst qualities in humankind. Him craves their adulation though and thus overlooks their innate shortcomings.
To those that think this movie is some sort of existential masterpiece, Aranofsky is laughing at you. What exactly do you think his point was? That we had better change our ways or we'll be rebooted? It would seem that we're going to end up that way anyway so maybe his message was actually go party before you die lol. Other movies have strived for "experience" and succeeded but there has to be an endgame for it to work. 2001 A Space Odyssey comes to mind. Mother! has no payoff for the two hour investment. It's junk and I wish I had turned it off halfway thru so that I would always wonder if it ever got any better instead of knowing it unbelievably gets worse.