Mother! Are you kidding me?
So I read that Jennifer Lawrence believes that she's in a film, Mother !, about human destruction of the Earth. She plays a young housewife with large breasts who needs to protect her home from the riff raft in a way that has not been equalled in cinema since Sam Peckinpaugh did Straw Dogs . And Javier Bardem thinks he's in a film about the rise of cults. He plays a narcissistic poet with writers block who thinks reader adulation is heroin. OK for Jennifer and Javier--they've both done some fantastic films and some great acting. However, the film barely pays homage to climate change or cults. What it services is yet another artistic exploration of how cool it is that older men, particularly if they have artistic pretentious, can fuck younger women. The guy in this movie, played by Bardem, is a prime example for the older guy who gets exactly what he wants, sulks when believes there's the slightest chance that he won't, lies at other times, and then just