An allegorical nightmare brought to life

Rating: 9/10 (22 December 2017)

Like most I went in to this movie blind and needed some help via the web to explain much of the movies metaphorical story at the end. The tight and claustrophobic camera work and visceral unsettling dialogue and storyline tightens moment by moment like a rope around your neck. Scene by scene the movie descends into a nightmarish hell, like one we've all experienced in our own nightmares. You'll squirm in your seat, empathize maddeningly with "Mother", until you'll share her every moment, descending into a suffocating madness that makes you want to scream or die. In short this is brave, bold, painful and extremely divisive... and for these reasons alone I think "Mother!!!" is pure hellish genius, that I welcome in an era of cgi robot movies that only the moronic could rate higher than this movie.