Mother! - Official Movie Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2017
- Mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris directed by www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moth... is reviewed by Christy Lemire (www.ChristyLemire.com), Matt Atchity and Alonso Duralde (TheWrap, Linoleum Knife)
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A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. From filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer in this riveting psychological thriller about love, devotion and sacrifice.
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that's a flower vase. THAT'S A FLOWER VASE.
Ray Purchase i think it functions like any other object u usually drink from.
Ray Purchase, I think now Christy is just fucking with us, after she read the comments about the mason jar... I love it!
Christy Being the ultimate troll with THE FUCKING FLOWER VASE. *I LOVE IT!!*
Max Messmer same for me
I thought this movie kind of sucked and it really started to get annoying towards the end. If you want to see a better movie kind of like this one then go see Nocturnal Animals.
Christy, why are you drinking out of a flower vase?
because she can and we comment.
luc1dmike She just keeps getting more and more ridiculous with these things. I expect a planter with a live palm tree in it will be the next escalation.
Because everyone threw a goddamn fit when she drank water out of a jar. Now she's breaking all the rules. You guys pushed her to this.
Because it is easier to handle than a fish bowl
Yup! Fish bowls are hard to handle! ( I have never drank from a fish bowl and I will never do it again... )
Christy is trollin super hard.... Dig it ....yeaaaahhhhhhh
After Twin Peaks the return this film should be a cake walk to understand.
Haha Exactly
It was. 100%
I just went on "Lynch mode" as soon as I saw the first 2 shots. After that, it took me 20 minutes to figure out where it was all going. Still agree with the WTF crew. The more I get further away from it, the less impressed I am and the more I wanna rewatch Twin Peaks.
i reached the opposite conclusion tbh and did NOT expect to
What do you mean?
For me... I am getting more from Mother than the TP revival. I did not expect to feel that way.
Been an appreciator of D Lynch going back to 1981, seeing Eraserhead in theater age 13 and took many hours to rewatch and dissect the new TV season on Showtime. Hadn't anticipated that Mother would make a more lasting impression on me.
Bardem is God, Lawrence is Mother Nature and the house is Earth and if you can't get the rest after knowing this then you need to crack open a book or a thousand.
"My butt was vibrating" -Christy Lemire 2017
VelmaX3, wow exactly when I read your comment, she says it word from word. lol
It should be on the Blu-ray cover.
She probably saw it in a theater with butt-shakers in the seats (Which is a term to describe a small subwoofer under a seat for maximum effect). So her butt most likely WAS vibrating
Sorry its called a butt-kicker
Danzig's Mother is a classic...
Fucking right!
Maelstrom Of Horror Christy and Alonso are bourgeois assholes...
Hate it when they have people talk about a movie they won't watch. Why is he there?
I loved this movie. I'm surprised how off base they were on their interpretation. Aronofsky clearly states in interviews this is a story from the point of view of Mother Earth. Not sure how they missed that. Definitely worth a watch, a fascinating film
Is Ben Mankiewicz still a regular on What the Flick? I can't recall the last time he appeared for one of the Thursday film reviews.
Ben hasn't been seen in TYT studios for weeks now.
Well, he and Matt did a video remembrance of Martin Landau last month, he has been a fairly regular contributor to the weekly Game of Thrones recap, and he discussed David Simon's latest HBO series, The Deuce, just last week with Alonzo and Matt, so he is around.
He just isn't contributing to What the Flick!'s weekly film reviews. I wonder why. I wonder if he and Cristie have had a falling out of some sort?
Or maybe he just hasn't seen any movie lately
I love how the majority of comments aren't about the actual movie being discussed, but rather about Christy's next level trolling prowess. Christy is awesome.
What I like is your abs
Reminds me of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".
In this video there were some weird shots of Christy where it felt like the camera was very far away from her and it was very zoomed in. I don't think it's a good camera angle.
Wait, what will happen if we all just stop commenting on christy's cup? Will spacetime rip open?!?
Asa Gold If spacetime rips open, Christy will just use it as a cup.
What a brilliant film, squirmed, churned, twisted and turned. Wow!
Clicked on this so damn fast. Been waiting for this review.
Well, it sucked. I saw it.
Saw it today. It's brilliant !! So many people pine away about Hollywood never making original films, well this it and its well worth the time. This is a film that requires multiple viewings. However, many are going to hate it. Not because its a bad film, but because they just don't get it. And that's a valid opinion, this movie isn't for everybody.
This lady is a bit too far off in her analysis... it is a metaphor for religion and world
Evgeny Larionov - That's the sense that I got although I couldn't quite put the elements together.
Christy's *glass game* is on point!
When I heard about this, I wanted to troll on it but then when I actually was informed about the movie, it intrigued me. Go watch Chris Stuckmann's review; it's more thoughtful. Some people just like movies to shit on cuz that's easier and more fun to do than having a meaningful conversation. I'll watch this movie with an open mind. Sounds like a lot of people won't or didn't when they saw it.
Xervello yeah eating babies is great
Xervello Many here might disagree with me on this but personally, I felt this film to be pretentious and extremely heavy handed with its themes. It's surrealism ceases to have the effect good surrealism offers when you realize that every character and everything that happens has a direct allegorical correlation. By the time the film ended, I felt a feeling of pointlessness.
Basically what the film does is instead of just touching its nose normally, it twists it's hand around its head to touch it's nose, if you know what I mean.
Many here might disagree with me on this but personally, I felt this film to be pretentious and extremely heavy handed with its themes. It's surrealism ceases to have the effect good surrealism offers when you realize that every character and everything that happens has a direct allegorical correlation. By the time the film ended, I felt a feeling of pointlessness.
Basically what the film does is instead of just touching its nose normally, it twists it's hand around its head to touch it's nose, if you know what I mean.
Xervello I know what you mean, man. If you're gonna dislike a film, at least show some class about it.
Stuckmann's awesome.
The descriptions make me think of Bunuel and Von Trier, but no reviews have mentioned them. The song the movie title puts in my head is the John Lennon one.
What is going on with Christie's camera?
There must be a severe miscommunication or a spread of the "bad taste" STD going around here since Danzig's is most definitely one of the good "Mother" songs out there.
How about the pink floyed song?
This week on What the Flick, Christy is drinking form a vase... stay tune to see what she'll do next! Fascinating!
Christy is trying to cause the next drought! ;)
Am I the only one who saw a bit of dante's inferno in that movie?? Like when JL is walking all across the house and you can see some glimpse of whats happening in each rooms? like each floor of hell or something like that ?
Has Matt seen any movie?
Anything that holds water, is something you can drink from. Kinda like, anything you can put on a shirt can be worn by a person. She drinks from a vase, he wears shirts with random foods on them!
"You can feel it, too. There are moments where, toward the end, where it reaches its climax... like, my butt was vibrating!"
Yeah sometimes my leg shakes when I reach mine, it's natural and there's nothing to be ashamed about!
You guys didn't like The Fountain? Really????? wow
The Fountain is Aronosky's least well reviewed film. It is also his strangest, so that shouldn't be a surprise. I didn't really dig Black Swan and I'm surprised how popular it is but I think mother! is great and a lot of people, including critics, think its unwatchable. There is no accounting for taste.
There was even one critic who said it was tne worst film of the decade (mother!), plus it has an F in CinemaScore (probably because people were expecting a horror movie)
I think it was Rex Reed who called it the worst film of the decade. I wouldn't take anything Rex Reed says seriously though. He reviewed The Dark Knight badly because he said it didn't make sense that heath Ledger was The Joker when Jack Nicholson was already The Joker. (seriously, look up his review. Its hilarious.)
Kyle Smith did him one better. I think he called it the worst film Hollywood has ever made.
Didn't watch this movie for longest time because of this review, and when I finally saw it, I just broke open. Please see this film!
Yes "the Danzig song" IS GOOD!
all i thought of was Roman Polanski AND Andrej Zulawski
Awesome Movie - Just phenomenon - Loved the intrigue & mystery.
Going to watch it again.
Alex Texan you're crazy
Aronofsky is very vague about the allegories he put in the film, “everybody sees what they want to see" .. on the other hand, we can see what he actually put in the film, every image, every word has been put in the film by him, not by chance. Jennifer can be seen as Mother Earth.. but also as the “working class”, adoring blindly their master.. endlessly working to make their house a real HOME, and are betrayed by him, who has hidden plans. She is dealing with a “Poet”, the “intellectual”, totally indifferent to her feelings and all her work in the house, looking for the excitement of weird people, looking for “inspiration” to overcome his sterility, his “writers' block”, pursuing his devilish plans He invites strangers into the house, and he tries to manipulate her when she asks him to send them away by saying “they have no other place where to go”. They destroy everything and he says "these are only material things". Everything goes tragically wrong and he says “it will be ok” … Mayhem ensues and he says "we must forgive". He is mocking the words and actions of "do-gooders", who open the door to the invasion by complete strangers, behind the mask of help and forgiveness... They turn a mourning wake into an orgy... are abusive, and try sexual advances followed by insults... We see her carefully choosing the plaster for the walls.. and “the guests” repaint the house of a totally different colour.. the allegory is quite clear... The sex that she was longing for is enacted by him as a rape... and then he sacrifices her child to his devilish sect, and here Aronofsky goes into dangerous waters... The Poet does everything to please and be worshipped by his adoring fans... gives the baby to the crowd to be devoured, in an echo of the Bible, but he is really the Devil or he knows the future and that everything will turn out according to his plans? so what is Aronofsky trying to suggest? God/Devil the same entity? At the end, she metes out justice and punishment by an all-consuming fire .. but then... smiling reassuringly he tears off her heart and starts again, and again and again, in a hint to Hinduist beliefs in life on Earth going through an endless series of cycles... Apparently, the film flopped because people find this message very unpleasant.. as it actually is… because it goes against everything we hear today through the mass media, but it will be considered “visionary” in the years to come…
I think you both must have seen Gone With the Wind or something.
This movie was epic and relevant to all us mothers. And funny like a cracked elbow or seismic plate.
Please see Mother!, Matt. It's a unique experience to be sure!
Christy and Alonso have summed up my exact feelings on the film.
In fairness to Alsono, WTF is Matt doing on this one?! 😂 "I'm not a mother"!
I like how these people just assume that everyone who watches this channel agrees with their bleak hatred of the way things are right now. Some of us are very happy.
I'm not dead set against seeing this movie, but I think I came across an explanation of the movie's meaning (the one Alonso mentioned, I think), and he's exactly right - it doesn't feel nearly as interesting or clever when all the pieces are laid out.
next week there will be 50 thimbles full of water laid out in neat rows and Christy will do tiny thimble water shots over the course of 3 or 4 reviews.
I hear that "What the flick?!" is the response a lot of people have to this movie
Can't wait to see this.
I've met mechanics who have a more poetic and deeper intellectual grasp of cars than Atchity has for movies
I agree with Christy. As much as this movie is way too out there for regular movie folks, this movie is definitely original, bold, fresh, creative and a visceral experience. I'll take originality, creativity and boldness over another comic book sequel reboot/remake.
Christy is trollin us now w that vase
Why does Matt come on if he hasn't seen the film lol
Iollann O Murchu because they recorded reviews for other films the same time/day as this review so why not just let him stay there since he's going to be participating in the next reviews anyway.
If that annoys you then you should find different reviewers because in at least half their reviews one of them didn't see the film.
here u relax when did i say it annoyed me
I have no clue smh. He literally added nothing to the conversation
The camera on Christy was out of focus for much of the video. Critical focus, it's not actually hard to get right.
The best song called Mother is by John Lennon. Plastic Ono Band.
A director who manages to get most of the way of sneaking this psychological thriller's deep significance past you, without you realizing it's an allegory.... is not doing it to be annoying; he's doing it to appeal to better angels in us, and it's good he is doing it. Yes, I am directly addressing Alonzo's distaste for the symbolism in this movie. What Aronofsky is doing is brilliant, in fact; he's delivering a lesson that will _wait before sinking in_ until we've already invested ourselves in the characters . And when he's both the director and the writer of the screenplay and has described it thus, why would you not want to believe the movie is intended just as he is describing? Bear with me: The house = Earth and its climate. Mother = nature (in its pure form, preferring to remain devoid of humans and their pernicious influence). Burning of the house = the damage done to it by the virus (humankind), or maybe it's the fever designed to kill off the virus.
Even the New Yorker film critics don't seem to get this movie, so I'm guessing the huge uptick of climactic chaos (via hurricanes, melting polar ice and rising seas among other things) has really taught us nothing.
There's no way in fucking hell that I'd want to hear people talking about a movie in depth like this without having seen it. Matt Atchity is crazy
When you mention Rosemary's Baby I immediately thought of "What have you done to its eyes?"
I've seen all of Aronofsky's films - loved "Pi" and "The Wrestler", the rest I found overwrought and heavy-handed (and I'm a Jungian, I love archetypes). His sledgehammer symbolism makes me want to watch the real masters - instead of "mother!" how about Bergman's "The Hour of the Wolf".
I don't mean this to be a criticism (it's more of a curiosity), but sometimes I wonder what your thought processes is when you rate movies. I've watched you guys review other movies where you say the movie is good, and then rate it 5.5 to 6.5. Here, you clearly have some qualms about the movie yet still rate it higher than usual. What gives?
I did really this movie but, I dont see how a normal human being could enjoy it. I mean the third act alone would probably put off 99% of people!
I love that Christy doesn't comment on the water container.
Christy we're waiting for the wink concerning the water, let's skip to episode 8 of ahs ;)
The man in yellow looks like Hodor 😊
Is there a movie in this universe that it's not beneath Alonso superb intelligence?? I mean... for fuck sake. "Once you see the gears, the movie is not good anymore." Are you for real???? This movie it's not about "understand it" or not, for fuck sake people.
I am intrigued!
I’d love to know christy’s budget for drink vases, everytime it’s something different 🤣
It felt like he was trying to be David Lynch but was way too heavy handed with its symbolism instead of letting the nightmare run based on conscience.
Christy, what's next a science beaker, a champagne flute, an IV bag? Take any of these ideas in your water vessel quest.😉
I wish they would talk about the movie instead of just giving us 15 versions of "Go see it..."
It's not super deep?? The film is a deadly serious allegory crammed full of allusions. Sometimes there are multiple allusions to the same event, situation, character, even colors. I've been watching videos explaining the movie & I found one that does a great job of noticing things like the sound design, colors, credits, etc. & you guys totally missed so much of the movie.
Next time Christy will have a full keg out there.
Just like Black Swan was Aronofsky's version of Perfect Blue, this is Aronofsky's version of Outlast 2 :P
Nevermind, Drake Santiago was right. Just saw the film. I GET THE PRETENSE.
Scores were much higher than the leadup was leading me to think. I'll go see it cuz AMC gives me 1500 extra Stubs points!
Whenever Christy leans back she goes out of focus, and I'm not convinced the guy responsible for lighting was on his game today.
Any spoiler in this video?
From the clip alone, this has M. Night with higher caliber A-list actors, written all over it
Woah, Christy you didn't get the allegory in this movie at all. I can't tell if Alonso did or not as he never goes into detail. It's one of those movies that if you understand it I think you really love it. If you missed what Aronofsky was going for then you probably didn't enjoy it very much.
I like the ideas in the movie, but it seems so garish after having just watched it. It puts a classic pollyanna in the classic monster movie freak-out for an extremely long time. And it accomplishes this extremely long time by repeating beats. At one point it felt like complete deja vu. Like the ramp up of horror was an exact repeat of what had already taken place. But it still does escalate in the end; to about as far as any first hand fantasy write-up of, "it all goes to shit," might render. The work that went into shooting, "it all goes to shit," must have been enormous. But the characters involved all seem like someone with writer's block churning out cliches one after another.
I could honestly say that the movie is really really bad. But it's bizarre and fundamental artistic qualities keep it interesting. I'm glad to give it my money, because Hollywood has beaten me so senseless with remakes and "blockbusters" that I'll pay for anything remotely out of the ordinary.
Last word: it's garbage. But The Killing of a Sacred Deer rules! Black Swan is the most recent good movie from Aronofsky imo.
It's sad how many people have no knowledge of one of the most widely spread book on earth, and are upset they have no clue to what this movie it's about, if you know even the most basic of the book stories will get this movie.
This was NOT a character movie. This whole movie was a HUGE religious allegory and I figured it was pretty obvious. I personally loved it because I caught onto this metaphor very early on so it eas weird because I wasnt surprised by how it ended up. I was like "oh okay I get it that makes sense" but then I would think "okay wait, narratively, what the fuck is happening..." but I was never confused because I understood the metaphor. Some may say that its on the nose and maybe it is but for this movie I liked its definitive way of thinking and its straight forward view of the metaphor that I actually really appreciated it and was instead thinking "okay so how is THIS going to be handled" and shit. I did just watch it like 30 minutes ago but yet I feel like I completely got it and I absolutely loved it. However I dont know how to rate it...
This movie was really straightforward in its religious symbolism, especially the book of Genesis. But really I'd saw all sorts of biblical symbolism. Yes it is a movie about many things: ecology, over-population, the creation process, religion, obsession with celebrity, the sanctity of life and the virus that is life. It's an important movie because it did try to tackle many things. And it got people talking, which is merit in its own right.
Yeah, I get why people won't like it. It is a big studio art house movie, plain and simple. That alone means that people are going to pigeonhole it as pretentious. Personally I loved it. It's not for everyone. And that's why there are Rom-coms and super hero movies for those times and people who just want to escape or be entertained. I want that too oftentimes. But I'm glad that every once in a while a Hollywood is willing to throw a frickin bone to those of us who occasionally crave something more reflective. I'm not saying this is the most profound movie ever, but I think it was successful in what it sought to achieve.
it needs a different mindset to understand the allegory this is a movie that makes most critics a mainstream movie gore . the most underrated feature of a year
I didn't see mother, but they saw it, then why the hell are you the part of the review?
Christy with the flower vase lmao
The Fountain was absurdly good tho... I don't get a sense that this movie is that comparable from what I've read and heard so far.
No the fountain was amazing this is a big piece of crap
Super annoying when “review,” videos consistently say “I’m going to do a review here without giving any information to not give any spoilers.” Then wtf are we doing here?
That's a lot of water....
I'm always suspicious of movies with exclamation points in the title. It seems needy.
Wait did he take a jab at The Fountain?....
i've enjoyed christy's vase game these past few weeks. haven't liked any aronofsky ever, don't care about spoilers here.
alonso is my boy, brooks no trolls or crybabies.
This movie with its chaos was fun. In addition to being an introvert's nightmare (relating to the aggravation of other people in your living space and screwing everything up while disrespecting and ignoring your wishes), it also works on society's obsession with oversharing and having an appetite for every detail and wanting a piece of everyone.
It didn't occur to me that the names of characters weren't spoken.
its funny I got a sense of rosemary baby from the trailer before I saw the poster
It’s Christy drinking out of the ice pitcher for me.
This movie was sorta ok but damn this was Michelle Pfeiffer's best role in years.
The word we're all looking for is highfalutin.
Now is a flower vase.
From beneath you it devours.
WOOOOOOOOOOSH.
Hear that? That's the sound of the meaning this movie flying over your head.
You people laughed at the movie? Damn.
Mother! is one of the best movies of the year.
A vase. A VASE! :,D
They said suicide squad had third act problems.... sweet jesus
The irony: The one time Alonso gives a spoiler warning and does not spoil a single thing!
Nicky Thompson-Quartey that isn't irony