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The Great Movie Divide

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19 September 2017

By Alex Khalil

Jennifer Lawrence’s newest movie, mother! has been getting some rather strong reactions from audiences who were really confused by the movie. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the movie follows the story of a couple who face some weird stuff after the arrival of some strangers in their home.

It opened on Friday last week but didn’t take long for movie-goers to head to Rotten Tomatoes and share their thoughts.

A rather large portion of those people gave the film incredibly low scores. But weirdly, critics seem to love it. With a 69% from critics and a 42% audience score, this seems like one of the biggest movie dividers of the year.

Some words to describe the movie have been ‘masterpiece’ or ‘brilliant’, whereas a bunch of others seem a bit more vehement in their criticism.

“You don’t have to go to Harvard to understand this movie. High school dropouts can also fully understand how bad it is,”

“Horrible. If you need to Google search the meaning of movie when you get home, it was a failure,”

The psychological horror genre will always divide people.

You know what doesn’t? Clowns. Clowns that eat kids. Like this boy.

 

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