mother!

Rating: 5/10 (20 September 2017)

Mother! is that kind of movie that wants to say so much, your brain can't handle it anymore. The setup of the 'i want to be different movie' is a kind of bad nightmare what you have when you're having a fever. Sometimes it's also feeling that way, but it's in a bad sort of way. Mother! or mother! wants to make so much statements, about how the humanity treats each other, and the dis respect against mother nature nowadays, that the whole point of the movie fades away. Thereby you don't care about the character 'mother', because it's not realistic anymore. And i haven't spoke about the whole religious part of the movie yet. The film is like a big wave coming towards you. At first sight it looks thrilling, when it hits you it stays in a freaky kind of way nice. But when you notice you can't get yourself to the surface, and the water keeps running, you want it to be over as soon as possible. The marketing concerning this movie was also strange. it seemed like is was promoted as the next big horror movie, instead it is an experimental psychological art-house movie. Despite all of this, in potential it wasn't a bad movie. Darren Aronofsky can get the best out of his cast and crew members again. Especially in the first bit of the movie the cinematography and natural lighting were sometimes stunning.