Mother of unwanted parties

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2017)

This movie is unbearable. It is a technical masterpiece, but a real pain in the ass to watch. It's disturbing, violent, reminds me of "Funny games" in some ways, except the story does not makes sense.
So yeah, beautiful shots, excellent acting, but it doesn't matter in the end.
This movie relies too much on allegorias and Biblical methaphors. I say the public does not care about this. It's not justified in any ways. It's so much filled with metaphors that the movie is not self-sufficient anymore, you can't just watch the movie, you have to read the Bible, think about it...avoid the hassle. Aronovsky doesn't even provide answers in interviews, he keeps it as an enigma about day 6 of Creation, lol who cares. This is Cinema, not catechism.
So you have this two-hours crescendo of people invinting themselves into the life of an isolated couple, the people become a blood-thirsty crowd, and it becomes stupidly violent and provocative. Have fun.
The shots use a ridiculous amount of inserts, making you think the stain on the floor is important, the wall is important, the...boiler, the crystal...you'll eventually think EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT, so nothing is. Misleading use of cinema language.
Innovative story, but overall a bad experience.
I don't recommend.