Not Aronofsky's best work

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2017)

First of all I have to say that I am a thriller/horror movie fan, so I went to watch this movie just because it was listed as a horror/mystery movie, and without knowing anything about the plot, besides the title and the cast. Judging by the superb cast I really had high expectations. I realized quite soon during the first part of the movie that there was an allegorical meaning, so I didn't expect everything that was going on to be completely explained.
What I got while watching the movie, was that Bardem was a poet that strived for inspiration and longed for recognition from his work, and when he achieved this, he became even more obsessed with it, leading ultimately to the complete destruction of his personal life , because of letting fans mess with his family and privacy. It all started when a fan went to meet him in person, then his wife came over uninvited and she started messing with personal affairs of the poet's family and snooping around, and their kids came over later on. The poet kept a room all to himself, with a precious stone inside, but when he let others get in the room and mess with the stone, they caused damage to it, and things started to get completely wrong. He didn't respect his wife and her needs, he didn't care about her, he enjoyed more the attention he got from his fans, and even when she was pregnant, he becomes more successful and famous, so we realize that having a baby with his wife didn't make him feel complete. So, when he becomes more famous his fans go crazy about him. Instead of keeping his privacy and protecting his family, he doesn't want to make them leave, feeding his ego and arrogance, he let more and more people in, so all hell broke loose. Fans and excessive publicity of his personal life destroyed his house literally, his wife was nearly crazy, even his newborn son was actually devoured from his fans. He sacrificed everything because the poet enjoyed being in the private eye. His wife gave him everything, but the house was eventually destroyed, his wife was also killed, meaning that the famous poet's personal life is destroyed, so he has to start all over again. We get now that love is what's left from his wife (precious stone), so he keeps this memory in a safe place to keep him going and start all over again, this time trying to set a new home from the beginning with another wife.
Well, that was Mother! movie for me. When I read that bullsh*t interpretations about mother Earth, the environment, Adam, Eve, I was really shocked because it didn't make any sense this way, biblical stories never crossed my mind while watching a movie that had a clear meaning for me, and I really find it frustrating when secret meanings are so deeply buried that the movie fails to explain itself, seeming rather superficial. The second part was very far-fetched and tiring to watch. The only thing that made it worth watching was the performances of the main actors. But after all, it feels like a waste of time to watch a movie that pretends and claims to be more than it really is.