A masterpiece in "every possible way"!

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2017)

I rarely write reviews. But this one deserves few words, ESPECIALLY reading the flood of negative reviews out there!
I am one of the dumb-asses who missed the allegory! I went to watch it an art house cinema, completely blinded to all what has been said or written about mother!, including the director's statement. So my take-home message was completely, completely different!
But that's the beauty of cinema, no? I mean cinema at its best, is a work that leaves you some room for your own interpretations! I understand, we live in a fast-food culture, fast-fashion, fast-spirituality! people just love being told what and why and how to think, because otherwise it takes effort! I understand, and it became clearer reading the reviews here!
I can imagine, kids raised in Jesus camps will find this movie quite disturbing. The director is an atheist, and the picture he depicts for God is not a very nice one.
So back to my own interpretations:
1. "Him", played by Bardem, is obviously each and every narcissistic artist/creator since the dawn of humanity! So narcissistic to the extent of lacking basic compassion, that we humans ought to have. But this is not too far from the director's intention, no? I think for those who departed the Jesus camps, with no intention to return, would agree a narcissistic God is not far from reality! The absent God, the all powerful yet having no desire to put an end to suffering, the one so obsessed with creating wonders, yet keeps busy with testing humans, tempting them and Satan to fool into a spiral of eternal misery, only to prove some point no one else but "him" knows; we all know about these qualities, my fellow atheists, no? This picture was masterfully and poetically depicted by Darren, you just have to watch with an open mind, probably with an open heart, to get it.
2. My second interpretation: "Him" is each and every Prophet since the dawn of humanity! Again to my fellow atheists: we know that even if they had preached good causes, their objective was to attract the masses, hypnotize them, and in return they sacrifice humanity's ultimately true goodness, represented by the mother, losing her own child in the midst of the idol-worship frenzy! Is this far from reality? just look at the F* Middle East, for Baal's sake!
But, watch few interviews with the creators, and you will realize the movie was actually engineered so that you can interpret it the way you want! Jennifer herself said she saw it as the creation of religions and false idols (close enough to my second interpretation), Darren himself pointed the story is open to endless number of interpretations.
This project is a grand social experiment! a disturbingly stimulating work of art! a masterpiece! I highly recommend it for open minded people, Jesus campers? maybe not.