Painful

Rating: 1/10 (26 September 2019)

This must be a "Horror" film. It might be that I don't like it because it was so painful to watch. Is that a success as far as a "Horror" film goes? By the end the story piled on so much pain on the poor "Mother" I nearly began to laugh. Think about how people can invade your life and magnify it by more and more until it spills over into farce. This might have been the film makers intention.......?
It left you wanting believe that some circle of horrific existence was in play. At the end it was already to roll again, unfortunately. It was like Fawlty Towers with blood and gore, where irrational visitors cause havoc and mayhem yet without any laughs. (Was there a zombie disco in the poor "Mothers" home? It only got more progressively insane, to the point of ridicule.)
The "Mother", in this case Jennifer Lawrence, remained stoical in the face of her husbands need to feed his artistic ego. She was too beautiful to look too affected by the growing invasion of her lifestyle. It was if the Writer/Director had an idea about some sort of realism at the start and then added so many horrors to the story that became top heavy with misery; from people who were just bad mannered to God knows what else. It tried so hard to be utterly painful for the heroin and it was a fantastic success in this respect. Making it the same for the viewer was not a good idea. (Some seem to like the film because of this?)