Movie Review: Jennifer Lawrence's Mother!
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Movie Review: Jennifer Lawrence's Mother!

Mother! is a masterpiece of a movie.

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Movie Review: Jennifer Lawrence's Mother!
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Recently, a new horror movie starring Jennifer Lawrence was released into theatres. The characters are nameless and the trailer is ambiguous and creepy.

SPOILER ALERT AHEAD

The movie is not as much of a horror as a traditional movie. Leaving the theatre, I was confused and lost as to what I had spent two hours of my life on. Why were they in a war? Why was her baby eaten? What was up with the yellow potion that Jennifer Lawrence's character drank? Why does the story keep repeating? And what did the author intend for this story to be? Why did the progress this particular way?

These questions bothered me for a while until hours of research later, when I finally figured out what I saw. And when it hit, I realized what a masterpiece the movie was. Never had I ever seen a movie as breathtaking and as fantastically directed as Mother!. The movie ended up being a large biblical reference having been rated horror to showcase the horror of humanity. Jennifer Lawrence was Mother Earth and her husband was God.

As someone who had little to no biblical knowledge in her lifetime, I was really lost throughout the whole movie and completely missed even the biblical references that I had heard about such as the forbidden fruit picked by Eve and the fight between brothers Cain and Abel. But after reading about the movie, I was mind blown realizing the minute details hidden so skillfully in a plot. Every single part of the movie was thoroughly invented. Every scene, every action, every camera angle was specifically chosen for a reason. The camera is extremely close to Jennifer Lawrence helped the audience feel the claustrophobia she underwent. The entire movie was shot through her eyes helping the audience the world through a different perspective than traditional film.

This movie is not for everyone. This movie is for those personality types which like to question and think and learn something new when they watch a movie rather than see a mindless no storyline tract. The movie showcases humanity at its worst and although not horrific when watching, the ideas and the reality behind those thoughts are worse than any horror movie experienced - because it is a reality. The wars, the genocide, the destruction of the planet, the depth of the human mind and selfish nature.

Reading the reviews and hearing that many critics saw this movie as awful stumbles me. The movie is a masterpiece. I cannot think of a more succinct platform or storyline to address the same thoughts and ideas that this movie did.

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