In 1998 a new director earned the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, also the First Screenplay Award at the Spirit Awards. His name is Darren Aronofsky, the movie PI.

20 years have past and Aronofsky has constructed a very unusual and controversial filmography. Requiem for A Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, The Fighter, and Noah are his films. Stories of the human condition: deception, envy, anger, weakness, success are among the subjects that Aronofsky have covered in those films.

His new film mother! is perhaps the complex of all, containing a visual metaphor about religion and the creation, mother! tells the story of mother (Jennifer Lawrence) and him (Javier Bardem) who together lives in the countryside in a house that was recently burned and then rebuilds from scratch. Barden is an acclaimed poet with a writer's block Lawrence his lovely wife who is been working the creation of this house.

One day a Man (Ed Harris) arrives at this house asking for a room, then later the wife of this man (Michelle Pfeiffer) asking to stay with him too. mother character seems to be annoyed and upset by this unexpected visitors and the acceptance from him character to let them stay. mother wants to finish this house, it's her life's work, but also the only place where she fits with him to make it their home and the place for their future family.

The film develops into a dramatic tale of two brothers fighting for a will, as a consequence one of the brothers died. During a wake in honor of the son, hundred uninvited guests arrived partially destroyed part of the kitchen and also sneaking into so many places of the house.

Later mother and him have sex and she announces the next morning she is pregnant. Barden finally breaks his writer's block and finished a highly successful book giving him so much reputation, ignoring mother pregnancy.

mother! explores the creation of the world as a house, brick to brick, wall to wall Lawrence is the mother, of humans or nature, Barden is a man representing what's man is doing to the world and how is destroyed by feelings anger, envy, pretention, love, hate and material interest. The film becomes bizarre and confusing during the third act when so many tragedies in the world collide inside the house: war, government suppression, chaos, just like our world is now. In fact, I didn't know if this scene was serious or trying to be funny.

I don't think I can hate this movie, but I only watched one, and that's enough for me. The film could be interesting and powerful but then loose connection and becomes absurd.