Aronofsky: Pretentious and an ABSOLUTE HACK

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2018)

Darren Aronofsky is a talented director and writer, and has never been one to shy away from complex and disturbing cinematic experiences. With that being said, Mother! simply misses the mark and is a massive waste of talent, money, and overall my time.
Folks, I will not beat around the bush with this one. Leaving this movie I asked myself "Maybe Aronofsky is just a cocky writer who is entirely too full of himself?" Leaving "Black Swan" I remember being ecstatic about the trajectory of Darrens career, but now I am simply appalled.
Trying to spin this as a commentary on the relationship between nature and man, or as a metaphor to Christian idealogical stories is simply a disservice to actual cinema. Aronofsky uses shock value to try to get his point across, but in doing so loses the original story he was meaning to tell. I was totally taken out of the movie, and felt the whole time I was witnessing something for akin to an Eli Roth piece.
Overall, I almost walked out of this movie. It is pretentious for the sake of being pretentious. It is bloody and messy for the sake of being bloody and messy. I walked away intellectually stifled and emotionally angry. Hey Darren, you are a hack.
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