Mother is a 2017 movie by Darren Aronofsky who has written and directed it. I watched it because it has big names like Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem.And I now regret it, I regret a lot for wasting 2 hours of my time.
The movie starts with a couple, of which we don’t get to know the names, staying somewhere in a quiet place, a huge house. Their privacy keeps on getting breached by the visitors now and then and how the lady (Jennifer L) copes with it is also given a lot of showcase. The man is more open to the outsiders and is very much willing to help, but the lady is very much against it. She wants very few people or just only her and her husband in her life.
I read the description of the movie on amazon prime as psychological thriller, which I haven’t seen in a while and also because of the big names involved in it, I decided to watch it. Throughout the movie I was waiting for some suspense to reveal why the Jenifer Lawrence’s character behaves in particular way, or if the character is having some psychic disease or having some illusions or hallucinations etc., but there is none! The movie just plainly unbelievable.
How in today’s era can so many people enter the house of a couple so easily and go on vandalising? I read some of the reviews and explanations, where it is said that it’s all symbolical, like how the earth is formed again and destroyed by human beings etc. etc. If there is symbolism, it has to stand through out the movie, not just for the last 30 odd minutes when there are just unbelievable sequences of vandalism, a poor lady trying to control them, delivering a baby in between and again losing her new born to the evil doers etc. If by some analogy, the lady is Eve, the house is earth, the man is Adam etc. then what about the blood stains she keeps seeing around the house, what about her obsession to keep the house clean, what about that talk of having/not having children etc? What about the random couple entering their house as fans and their sons fighting with each other? What about the talk between two ladies about sex?
There are so many scenes in the movie which were not making any sense at all, and I was hoping that at some point it will all link to something meaningful or sensible, but it never did. If you want to say something symbolically on this large scale, a couple of mistakes, loose ends are fine, but this is either like an experiment gone massively wrong or the director started with something else in the mind and ended up stretching it too far to loose the track.
I find the movie as a massive disappointment and wouldn’t recommend anyone to watch it.