It's Hard to be Talented when you're not Ripping-Off old 90s Animes.

Rating: 2/10 (16 September 2017)

Like Christopher Nolen's much better film Inception, Mother! rips off it's story like a meandering beach comer turning over stones; any inherent poetry of that description doesn't apply to Mother!, however. Unlike Inception, Aronofsky never manages to build an emotional connection between the viewer and the characters, leaving a dispassionate barrier.
Barred beneath a plot of tasteless sand there may be a glimpse of sentiment that could warrant artistic expression- unfortunately, those who crafted this mechanically orchestrated opera didn't believe in that sentiment enough to imbue any great worth or artistic beauty when rendering it.
At the hart of Mother! is the question: do I like who I've become? Satoshi Kon wraps that question in a package of insanity and couples it with the warn out tedium of an outdated BATTLE ROYALE 2: REQUIEM ripoff from Lionsgate. In the end, Aranofsky seems unable to tell the story he wants to, doesn't seem to know why, and forgets what question he's trying to answer in the process.