Violent and Gross Failure!

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2018)

There's the good Darren Aronofsky, and there's the bad Darren Aronofsky. I should have checked first. It's easy to do. A minute or two on IMDB would have told me what I needed to know. A careful examination of the DVD box would have been a tip-off. I committed two hours of my time based on 5 seconds of observation and paid for it. I thought with Javier Bardem and Ed Harris in the movie it would be OK.
Darren Aronofsky has made some fine movies, and he'll probably make others. You can add Mother to his list of stinkers.
I can hardly bring myself to comment further, other than to say that if you like to drown in self-pity and celebrate all things lost, desperate and hopeless, Mother is probably for you. Maybe the movie is meant to be a black deadpan comedy. The same joke over and over again gets tired, though.
If you look at Mother as a standard horror movie it's long, morose, and not scary. It's just violent and gross.
It's sad to see top professionals taking themselves seriously in a miserable, ridiculous movie. I'll take a bad low-budget horror movie where there's some fun anytime.
P.S. After watching the movie and eating a late dinner, I wrote this and went to bed. I had the sickest dream. It was sicker than Aronofsky's movie and a lot funnier.