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The gun shots are fired with an exaggerated volume that pierces your ears. The prisoners have bags over their heads and are handcuffed on the floor, a visual that evokes Abu Ghraib-like torture.
IN THE HOUSE IN A HEARTBEAT SCENE FULL
As military forces begin storming the house and the chaos erupts into a full blown war, Lawrence stumbles into one room and finds Wiig shooting prisoners at point blank. Kristen Wiig arrives late to the party in “mother!,” but her relatively brief appearance takes no time in going from “Why is Kristen Wiig in this movie?” to “Holy hell, Kristen Wiig is shooting hostages at point blank.” Wiig plays the publisher to Bardem’s writer, and she is intensely obsessed with Lawrence for giving her client the inspiration to write his holy new work. Just when you think it can’t get any crazier, it does in the blink of an eye.
IN THE HOUSE IN A HEARTBEAT SCENE MOVIE
It’s truly one of those movie moments you have to see to believe. Describing this prolonged sequence will never do it justice. One moment you feel like you’re in a “Children of Men” war zone, and then suddenly you’re in a “Zero Dark Thirty” torture scene.
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Every room Lawrence enters signifies a new chapter of history, and it gets crazier, more violent and more flat out inexplicable with each passing second. The same can’t be said for the second half, where Aronofsky runs through the course of human history and fills the house with war, riots, refugees, and more. The Biblical undertones are quite subtle in the first half of “mother!,” so you’ll be forgiven for not catching every single reference on the first watch. In one minute, “mother!” has gone off the rails in the most unexpected way. The impact lands with a body-cringing, bone-crunching thud. What begins with throwing chairs ends with Domhnall taking a loose doorknob and bashing his brother in the skull. The brothers have come to the house to confront their father, but Domhnall’s rage gets the better of him and he brawls with his brother. A long-standing rivalry between the two hits its breaking point after Harris’ will favors Brian over Domhnall.
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“mother!” begins to overtly reveal its Biblical intentions with the Cain and Able-like introduction of these brothers, played by real life siblings Domhnall and Brian Gleeson.
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It doesn’t take long for hell to break loose after Harris and Pfeiffer’s twins unexpectedly barge into the home one day. Lawrence begins unclogging the toilet with a plunger and suddenly the organ bursts and gets sucked down the drain. It’s hard to make out what exactly is under the water, but it resembles a heart and/or intestines and it’s absolutely disgusting. She goes to flush them, but there’s something bloody already in the toilet. Jennifer Lawrence’s character finds herself cleaning up everyone’s mess more than once throughout “mother!” At one point, she spots some bloody tissues on the bathroom sink counter in the room where Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer are staying. The more the house is destroyed, the blacker the heart gets. Aronofsky will return to the heart in the wall multiple times throughout the film. Is the house alive? Did Lawrence just communicate with the house? Are Lawrence and the house one and the same? It’s in this moment where “mother!” warns you “the real world” is not exactly at play. Suddenly, Aronofsky’s camera glides through the surface to reveal a beating heart. She places her hand on the wall and closes her eyes. Lawrence is deciding which color paint she should use on a wall but is having troubling settling on the perfect hue. The first truly WTF moment of “mother!” arrives early on. There are more WTF moments in “mother!” than you can count, but these 10 will stand out for every viewer long after the credits go black.