Terrible Waste of Acting Talent! Not Worth the Time!

Rating: 1/10 (2 October 2017)

My husband and I awaited this movie with great anticipation. We both feel that Javier Bardem is one of the best actors of our time, and love Jennifer Lawrence, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer! We saw the film three days after it opened and were one of two couples in the theater (a total of 4 people in the cinema!); the other couple left halfway through the movie. In retrospect, we should have gone with them.
Seldom (if ever) have I seen a film with so little dimension! How Aronofsky could be so pretentious as to claim that the film was about climate change and that Lawrence represented Mother Earth is beyond me! Clearly a victim of her husband's unrelenting narcissism and emotional abuse, her character was more symbolic of a door mat!
The movie raised many more questions than it answered (not to mention, "Why did we waste our time and money?"). What was wrong with Ed Harris and why was it significant? What was the yellow powder that Lawrence took whenever she had an "attack?" Why did Lawrence dumbly accept Bardem's comment "Where will they go?" whenever she encouraged him to oust Harris and Pfeiffer (he was a doctor, and they had grown kids worrying about their estate, after all)? Of course, the overriding question is "What was the point?"
To refer to this pompous rhetoric as drivel is to insult drivel! After wishing the end of the movie would hurry up and arrive, we left the theater thinking that we had just thrown away 2 (long) hours of our lives that we could never get back. Easily one of the worst films we've ever seen!