Possibly the most loathsome and inane movie ever: Mother!

There may be some but it's hard to imagine a movie more loathsome and inane than Darren Aronovsky's Mother! (2017). After a few odd and pretentious shots of what look like amoeba the movie settles into its gothic mode. A recently married couple - Jennifer Lawrence and her much older husband, Javier Bardem - are living in a - Surprise! - rundown Victorian mansion. JL is heavily engaged in restoring the building while Bardem is a poet suffering from "writer's block." Poor soul. Someone knocks on the door - Ed Harris! - seems to be lost, they invite him in, and Bardem asks him to stay the night. Trouble brewing - esp when his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) shows up the next day and the two of them trample through the house, breaking not only the house rules (no smoking!) but Bardem's valuable and fragile crystal. Then their sons show up, get into a fight about their inheritance, one kills the other in a brawl - and the next day the whole family shows up for the funeral. Through all of this Lawrence steams and stews and does nothing while Bardem keeps saying these people are great, they have nowhere else to turn, etc. In other words this makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't even a touch frightening: Its like a Bunuel film, without the humor and without the social commentary. Finally everyone clears out, JL and JB fight, then have sex and: Writer's block cured! He writes in a flurry (using longhand - and btw he never has a word to say about his poetry or about anything else having remotely to do w/ literature). We jump forward, JL is pregnant, JB has finished his book - she tells him, with tears in her eyes, that it's beautiful - and further jump in time and the book is published - and first printing sells out immediately. Crowds of admirers show up, at first seeking autographs and photos, eventually overrunning the house and wrecking it - to the sounds of much screaming, yelling, explosions, and an explosive soundtrack - leading up to a dramatic conclusion - I guess you could call this a spoiler - in which JL gives birth and the crowd of idolators consume the flesh of the baby. I can imagine nothing more repulsive than this. Apparently it's been said that JL represents "Mother Earth" and that the horde of invaders and intruders represent our neglect of our Earth and our environment. OK, so what's the point? There's nothing remotely in this movie that helps us think about the destruction of the environment, much less what to do about that. First of all, I guess: Don't let intruders into your home and when they start to piss on the floor make them leave! (There are hundreds of intruder movies, none as bad as this; a good one recently was Funny Games, btw.) Second, don't marry a poet. And what is it w/ movies about poets - they not only have no idea how poets work (not in fits of inspiration), they seem to think poets attract legions of followers. They don't; a slightly more credible story line might have had JB as an aging rock star. I can only begin to tell you how annoying the photo editing - cuts and reverses every five seconds or so - and dialog are. Throughout the movie, Bardem leaned toward Lawrence, or toward the camera, with a goofy smile on his face. Did he recognize that this film was ludicrous and malevolent? Didn't everyone?