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Mother. It's not that I didn't get the allegory, it was just weird. Also Antichrist, though to be fair, saying "wtf did I just watch" was the whole point of the movie.
I didn't get the allegory in Mother, and I didn't really care. Totally wtf, but I loved how nightmarish it was, and how it looked visually, I was completely enthralled.
The guy was god, the gal was Earth.
Oh yeah, I've read up on the explanation since, but for me it doesn't really add anything. It doesn't take away anything either. I think it was just so captivating I didn't need any meaning. That probably makes me sound far more shallow than I am but hey ho.
I mean, if you like it, there's nothing shallow about that, you just like it.
Nah, some movies are so visually and mechanical entertaining/enthralling you just sit back and enjoy. The Fountain (2006) was a movie I just didn't care to understand the first watch, it was just so beautiful.
I had just started dating a single mom and we saw it in the theater as she was a Jennifer Lawrence fan and I think we were probably expecting something a bit more mainstream. As the movie ended, she was in tears. “Yes…they really captured what it feels like to be a mom. It’s like they read my soul”.
I quickly learned she had…issues. But stayed in that relationship far longer than I should have because the sex was incredible. Yes, I was an idiot.
I actually liked mother! It wasn't great but more than watchable and made me a Javier Bardem fan. I agree with Antichrist, it was...yeah. That.