MOTHER! directed by Darren Aronofsky (USA, 2017)
Beware of films with exclamation marks in the title!
“Mother! is a movie designed to provoke fury, ecstasy, madness, and catharsis, and more than a little awe”. This verdict is from a review in Vox that Darren Aronofsky says ‘gets it’.
It culminates in an apocalyptic finale that works on the theory that nothing succeeds like excess. It is shocking in the sense of being shockingly awful.
If Aronofsky’s goal was to get under my skin he succeeded but, while I usually gain a perverse pleasure from mindfuck or body horror movies, this one left me cold and with feelings of distaste and repulsion. Continue reading
