Why I deeply enjoyed watching mother!

Rating: 8/10 (20 October 2017)

**mother! - review**
If I've been aware, by the time I watched mother!, that Requiem for a dream has the same director of it, perhaps, I'd be better prepared to face this adventure. I say adventure because this movie is, at least, as unexpected and insane as a drug trip. The movie starts with a nice and strange crystal, this last adjective being suitable for almost every scene of it, being put in a delicate support, a thing that will be just understandable in the latter scenes of the story. This, to give a hint of how mysterious and obscure are the movies' content and his nexus. But the dense core of the plot is in its middle part. There's a specific moment, which is hard to precise, that deflagrates an unstoppable sequence of nonsense. There's no time to think or even feel something, apart from anguish and anxiety, as the film goes on. There was a point I was literally on the edge of my seat, gaping, googly eyed, desperately trying, in vain, to grasp a tiny piece of meaning. Much I've heard and read about the director's arrogance, that the all movie is simply a "self-aggrandizing piece of artistic-filmmaking", which have absolutely no substantial content behind its piled madness. For me, the word 'art' only can be used for things either chock or inspire you. And this are the two reasons I truly enjoyed my 'drug-induced temporary psychosis'. Mother! is a unique, thought-provoking, breathtaking, mesmerizing movie experience. It definitely requires an open minded one to enjoy or even to not hate it, but those, who allow themselves to learn through sensations and not only by decoding and linking events, certainly will agree of me that, although may not be a masterpiece, clearly is a not to be missed movie of the year and proudly deserves its title exclamation, and why not a few nominations!