A swing and a miss...

Rating: 1/10 (9 January 2019)

As one who appreciates allegory and loves a good cerebral film, this film is not it. It doesn't take a genius to see the Biblical themes and characters in this movie. For one, Aronofsky obviously doesn't understand anything about the Bible, but setting that aside, the allegory itself fails completely. An allegory functions on two levels: the surface story and the hidden story. The problem with mother! is that it commits to neither, switching back and forth between the surface and hidden stories without rhyme or reason. It feels like Aronofsky felt that shoving all of his Biblical views (which again, are a complete misrepresentation of the Bible) into a two-hour movie about a couple with an unnatural-unrealistic relationship.
This movie is the most pretentious attempt as symbolism I've ever seen.