Abhorrently bad

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2017)

Spoiler/PSA ahead (If only someone had "spoiled" the film for me!)
This film is abhorrently bad. I've seen bad films before, but never have I left a theater feeling disgusted, angry, nauseous, and even betrayed. They were pretty tight-lipped about what this film is actually about, and now I see why. It wasn't to guard a clever plot twist (there isn't one), it was because if the audience knew the level of gratuitous horror and violence they were about to witness most would never sign on. I genuinely feel deceived. I would have never gone to see this film had I known. I would've preferred a Saw movie - at least both the audience and the director are on the same page about what is being produced and consumed.
This film ruined more than just my Saturday night. It ruined some of my favorite actors for me as well. Lawrence, Bardem, Pfieffer, Harris (even Kristin Wiig?!) - I actually judge them for their participation in this film. They gave good performances which were rendered completely irrelevant by this grotesque, stupid, and increasingly desperate film. It also ruined other Aronofsky films for me. I loved The Wrestler. It was soul crushingly sad, but it was beautiful. Mother! is so distastefully bad that it leaves me questioning the validity of Aronofsky's other successes.
Spoiler alert! If your idea of a good time is watching a newborn infant smashed, ripped apart, and eaten in front of his mother in graphic detail, then by all means - head to the theaters! To say that this scene crossed a line for me is a gross understatement. As a mother (or perhaps just a human?) I felt physically ill watching this wildly unnecessary scene (I'm sure the director will disagree with me about its "necessity" but he's kidding himself). I can't imagine the lies everyone involved had to tell themselves to justify that scene. It wasn't "profound" it wasn't "art", it was simply desperate and basic and disgusting and in no way justifiable. Even without that scene the movie is completely irredeemable. It is (hopefully) the worst movie I will ever see.