Not Worth The Explanation

Rating: 4/10 (5 October 2019)

When you create a movie that absolutely needs to be explained to the viewer for them to understand what they have seen...that's a problem. If you watched this film and didn't google an explanatory synopsis of it then you are probably mostly confused with a small glimmer of understanding that you have witnessed some religious symbolism. That's correct. I doubt anyone who watched this admittedly visually interesting film understood 90% of what they saw in a cohesive manner when it ended. Bits and pieces struck a chord with me as religious allegories but by the end I couldn't tell you how they fit together and that was frustrating. Even the blog I read explaining the film didn't understand all of it. And it was a pretty thorough account of what I thought I had seen.
If I was only judging production and acting this might be a 9 of a movie. Jennifer Lawrence was great. But when the film makers know their audience won't understand most of what they viewed by the end of the film that just bothers me.
Thank God I borrowed this free at the local library.