BBC推荐：9月必看的9部电影

5. 《母亲！》（Mother!）

上映时间：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.
《母亲！》像是《罗斯玛丽的婴儿》、《趣味游戏》以及《灵欲春宵》融合而成的电影。詹妮弗•劳伦斯和哈维尔•巴登在片中饰演一对已婚夫妇，他们表面上似乎很享受幸福的婚姻生活。但在丈夫邀请了另一对夫妇（艾德•哈里斯和米歇尔•菲佛饰）与他们同住后，事情变得糟糕起来，非常糟糕。相比于达伦•阿罗诺夫斯基首次执导的恐怖片《黑天鹅》来说，《母亲！》的惊悚程度有过之而无不及。自2010年《黑天鹅》上映后，阿罗诺夫斯基仅仅拍摄了一部改编自圣经神话的电影《诺亚方舟：创世之旅》，该片获得的评价两极分化。这两部影片的共同之处在于，片中角色都被原始力量推向了他们既无法控制也无法理解的境地，至少，对于劳伦斯饰演的痛苦的妻子来说，两者似乎是差不多的。