Voodoo gone wild

Rating: 5/10 (21 April 2018)

The Mother! is not working as a drama, is not working as a thriller, and is not working as a mystery. Someone who finds illumination or some "spiritual" enlightenment or such feelings watching Mother! has imo a good and vivid imagination, which of course is no bad thing.
Mother! is imo the first fail of Aronofsky, because of the strong acting it is still watchable, but compared to his masterpieces like Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, this is a rather weak movie. More interesting than most contemporary Hollywood stuff of course, yes, no doubt here, but Aronofsky did not fail as a director but as a writer. Still the single scenes without all the esoteric tam tam are strong, emotional and captivating, but putting the movie as one piece together the movie fails (imo of course) because of the story.
I don't know what other people read but this story is a very simple story overloaded with some pseudo-esoteric varnishing.
Well in times of Wicca, Mother Earth fetishists and other back to nature adepts, Mother! is a movie of zeitgeist. Anyway, watchable, but only because of the fantastic cast.