horror or not?

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2017)

Pi was a great debut.But this one...? Just saw it with a very small audience of people who were totally not into it.but I definitely see why people are hating it. the bigger problem with the movie is it marketed itself as a classic horror movie. As a straightforward horror film, this already didn't work because of the final 45 minutes or so just being too out there and especially too illogical, but then in the final minute Aranofsky makes the greatest mistake of all by pulling the rug out from under the film and explain it all, thereby completely nullifying any attachment to the protagonist that was built up until that point, and making this film entirely about himself. The film is instantly turned into one big metaphor for the creative process, the breaking of the crystal (i.e. the heart of his story, i.e. the JLaw character) the moment where the writer starts to lose the plot, as his story starts to devolve further and further into a tangled mess. Crumple up the paper, and start over again.
It's all very meta, and it's all very unengaging, and because of that ending, rather dull. Had he not created the bookends, we could have interesting discussions about what all the madness meant, but he took that chance away by simply explaining the film. In a deft move, I'll give him that, but now I'm left with watching a (purposefully nameless, as it turns out) protagonist for two hours that in the end I shouldn't care about, because she was just a draft version. That ending was just way too "Get it? Get it?