BBC推薦：9月必看的9部電影

5. 《母親！》（Mother!）

上映時間：9月15日

Looking like a hybrid of Rosemary's Baby, Funny Games, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a married couple who, at any superficial glance, appear to be enjoying connubial bliss. But then the husband invites another couple, played by Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer to stay with them, and things go badly wrong. Things go very, very wrong. Mother! appears to have as many frights, if not more so, than Darren Aronofsky's previous foray into horror, Black Swan. Since that film was released in 2010, he's only made one other, Noah (2014), an adaptation of the Biblical tale that polarized critics. What both of those films had in common was characters cast adrift by primordial forces over which they have no control and barely understand – and for at least Jennifer Lawrence's ultimately suffering wife character in Mother! it appears to be much the same.
《母親！》像是《羅斯瑪麗的嬰兒》、《趣味游戲》以及《靈欲春宵》融合而成的電影。詹妮弗?勞倫斯和哈維爾?巴登在片中飾演一對已婚夫婦，他們表面上似乎很享受幸福的婚姻生活。但在丈夫邀請了另一對夫婦（艾德?哈里斯和米歇爾?菲佛飾）與他們同住后，事情變得糟糕起來，非常糟糕。相比于達倫?阿羅諾夫斯基首次執導的恐怖片《黑天鵝》來說，《母親！》的驚悚程度有過之而無不及。自2010年《黑天鵝》上映后，阿羅諾夫斯基僅僅拍攝了一部改編自圣經神話的電影《諾亞方舟：創世之旅》，該片獲得的評價兩極分化。這兩部影片的共同之處在于，片中角色都被原始力量推向了他們既無法控制也無法理解的境地，至少，對于勞倫斯飾演的痛苦的妻子來說，兩者似乎是差不多的。