Given the multiple push-backs for the release, I probably should have tempered my expectations, but hard to do when the guy's last movie was literally Parasite, one of the truly great films of the 21st century. Boy, was this was a letdown. I was actually shocked to discover that I seem to be in the minority of folks for whom much of this did not work at all.
In part a satire about the disposable proletariat in an age of…
My kids had fun. As an elder millenial, I'm firmly with the first being the superior. Needed more nuns?
How about the film where a compassionate, qualified, and professional midwife is capably doing her job, unavoidable tragedy strikes, and then she is subsequently vilified by the members of a toxic and codependent family that refuse to see past their own privilege far enough to fathom that something unfortunate may happen to them without someone being to blame?!
First things: Kirby is stunning throughout; a transfixing screen presence beyond deserving of all the raves she is receiving for her raw…
"We have to forgive them..."
A fascinating, punishing, maddening, deeply disturbing Biblical allegory of humanity as an all-out assault on the goodness of creation.
..... why do I like this movie?
The unfortunate truth is that we as a people deny, debase, devour, and then repeat. Aronofsky visualizes this cycle in ways that are increasingly ugly and uncompromising, devoid of cheap resolution. His camera twirls through the claustrophobic confines of the home; forcing you into the same disorientation as the titular Her.
Love it or hate it, this is a film that refuses to cease wrestling with you until you acknowledge the blood on your hands.
