Presented in competition at 74° Venice Film Festival in Venice, mother! It is the last, disturbing feature of the famous American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
A writer in crisis, and his young wife live in a large villa isolated from the rest of the world. Balances seem to break when a stranger suddenly swoops in their home, claiming to be a man admired and have been lost. Nothing unusual so far, were it not for the fact that, the following morning, also the stranger's wife will break into house, followed closely by his two sons, one of whom will be killed following a furious argument with his brother. Needless to say, for the wife of the aforesaid writer, from this point on will start a real nightmare, from which it seems impossible to get out.
Beyond aesthetics (Photography always perfect, magnetic, with vivid and bright colors - further proof of the mastery of Aronofsky - combined with a direction that denotes mastery of space and makes the viewer, once he entered the house of the protagonists, you literally lose), beyond the skill of the performers (particularly suitable in their parts Javier Bardem, in the writer's role, e Jennifer Lawrence, in the role of his wife, although both are unlikely to match an icy and merciless - but still beautiful - Michelle Pfeiffer, in the role of the stranger's wife), we must recognize that this important work of American filmmaker, in fact, is not that a great metaphor for modern society, how human beings are usual (times)treat our planet and how to have an ongoing need something or someone to idolize, disoriented as they are in a world where there seems to be no value. A universal story, where the protagonists have deliberately not proper names, but they are to represent something much bigger: the young writer's wife, the mother to which the title refers is not the same other, therefore, that our own planet, which we are all used to take and that keeps on giving, give and still give, but that, unavoidably, will eventually reach the limit. Writer, its part, It seems so remember God, or his, landmark of much-needed. About that, not escape the most attentive viewer also a (not too much) veiled irony - and irony - about the artist himself egocentrism, complete with a little dig against critics (to notice, about that, the joke uttered by man on the phone with his agent: "Nothing Print. You know what I think of them. ").
A simple story, Yup, but that it continues and it will continue to repeat itself indefinitely (exemplary, about that, the circular shape of the same villa of the protagonists, in addition to the succession of events in almost loop). In short words, a story that denotes man's inability to learn from mistakes and take care of his surroundings.
Read this way, therefore, mother! It is perfectly in line with most of the features presented in conjunction with the Lido: the desperate condition of the ecosystem and callousness of a society that seems to have learned nothing from the past, in fact, the leit motif of 74exhibition. Unlike many other products, But, This latest work by Aronofsky - albeit, Unfortunately, with less mordant compared to films such as the recent The black Swan or less known, but beautiful, π - The theorem of delirium - he has since its the fact to avoid unnecessary rhetoric and moralizing stinging, placing the themes in the issues in a context quite horror author in the same strings. Thing, this, all obvious.
marina fears