I phrased that wrong, I should have said “...watching people leave the theater after watching it.”

I’d put that near the top of the list of the most horrifying sound effects of all time. Aronfsky’s foley artists and sound editors always bring their A game.

You could say the same thing about Black Swan and The Wrestler. I mean, all of his films are about obsession, but those two seem especially connected since they also involve the demands and cost of performance art / entertainment.

I’m an uncle to two girls and a boy, all under 10 years old. I don’t like kids in general, but I intend on having one or two of my own at some point. I’ll be honest with you, I don’t like spending time with my nieces and nephew. My nephew is currently a know-it-all shithead and he fights with his oldest sister…

It’s not. My girlfriend told me I have to wait at least a year before I ask her to watch another Aronofsky movie — even The Fountain, which I assured her is weird and melodramatic but fairly nonviolent.

This was the first movie I saw at my town’s new Alamo Drafthouse, and the lady working there didn’t even try to hide how much she enjoys watching people walk out of it.

Am I the only person who hates the actor who plays Bakuto and his stupid voice? I have nothing against soft-spoken villains, but he sounds like Derek Goddamn Zoolander.

I’M A MONSTER!!!

I’m getting a good laugh at the idea that a $30 million Darren Aronofsky film is representative of Hollywood’s current state.

As someone who has read the Bible multiple times and was steeped in evangelical Christianity for several years, I think the allegory is very obvious. Someone without a background in Christianity or Judaism might interpret it a different way.

There are several violent scenes. They start out not too bad, but it’s pretty rough towards the end. I have a fairly strong stomach for physical violence, and there were two brief scenes near the end that made me viscerally wish I were somewhere else. Less because of the physical violence/gore and more because of the…

That is what happens in the movie. But it’s definitely not presented as being “fine.”

I don’t think that critic’s interpretation is necessarily *wrong*, because any movie with a “poet” as a main character is definitely going to reflect the writer/director’s feelings as a creative person. But I think anyone who writes about this movie without mentioning the religious allegory is missing a huge chunk of…

Your mileage may vary, but I thought the allegory was pretty loudly telegraphed, if never outright stated. I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but there are some VERY obvious parallels to the more famous stories from the Old Testament.

I don’t think anyone does visceral horror as well as he does. The possibly-hallucinated body horror in Black Swan, the meat slicing scene in The Wrestler, and now... like, 20% of the running time of mother!...

I don’t think this movie in any way depicts humanity as worthy of redemption. But I love the way you’re thinking about his body of work. I see this as a companion film to Noah, in its bold questioning of God’s character and our relationship with Him and the natural world.

I watched it last night, and the cannibalism mentioned in the review is much worse and more disturbing than I had imagined.

I wonder if the film’s cast includes a Chinese and a pregnant.

I still enjoyed the second part of Seveneves, but man, it just does not measure up to the first.

Thanks for the recommendations! The Diamond Age sounds good, I’ll try to tackle that one next.