To each his own

Rating: 2/10 (18 September 2017)

I get why some people loved this movie. I totally get it. But personally I am really, really upset I spent 2 hours of my life watching this film. This film is purposefully obnoxious, smug and manipulative. It spends 70 or 75 minutes dawdling around a house where uninvited house guests keep coming over and weird things keeps happening; then J Law gets pregnant and all hell breaks loose and a baby is murdered and eaten and the house burns down and it turns out Javier Bardem is God who keeps trying to get things right and can't seem to make it work.
Basically this is the cinematic version of an overwrought undergraduate thesis paper on the evils of religion. I totally get the point that Aronofsky is making and I appreciate the fact that Paramount Pictures was willing to put up $30 million to make something wildly experimental and violently off-putting. But I still hated the experience of watching this movie. That reaction is not going to change just because it has some important lessons to teach.