Certainly unique.

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2020)

This movie has me thinking, months after watching it. It certainly is unique, well directed and shocking. I emphasise that last point. Sometimes I wonder whether stuff like this should even be made. I wonder when something has gone too far. Maybe mother! did just that. I'm not sure. From a technical perspective this movie is a 10. Great acting, excellent directing and intense pacing, adding to the uniqueness (the constant focus on Lawrence's character's face, and the lack of a soundtrack, certainly does make for a unique film). But then there is the brutality and grossness used to get the message across, which it does but at what cost? Sure it's a piece of art but it's kind of sick. This film really hit hard with me. It really is a great film and anyone with a pretty strong stomach and a decent perspective of life it's a good watch and might make you think. It's definitely not boring. It's probably a really good film, I just don't really know what to give it. Well, I mean that a tv the end of the day it is a movie, a story, a piece of artistic entertainment. Enjoyable perhaps, moving maybe, 'makes you think' is great. But in a world with so much negativity I don't know if the extent of this is fully necessary. Maybe it is. Maybe mother! has to be shocking and gross to get the message across, so many movies are. I honestly don't really feel right giving it a rating because it seems different to a lot of movies I've seen. I'm only 18, but really like movies, and this one has stuck with me more than anything really. To be honest I'm really just giving it a rating as a form of cataloguing the films I've seen as I venture deeper into the wonderful world of cinema, not that I would soon forget 'mother!'. That being said, technically this film really seems special, morally, I'm not really sure. Anyway, it's a 9 from me.