#097: (Pt. 2) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We return to the realm of societal allegory in our examination of Darren Aronofsky’s divisive horror-comedy-whatsit MOTHER! and how it relates to Luis Buńuel’s 1962 surrealist satire THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, a film Aronofsky has cited as direct inspiration. After grappling with our reactions to MOTHER! and its abundance of malleable metaphors, we look at what the two films share — and what they don’t — in terms of their central allegories, their relationship with religion, their tone and style, and depiction of nightmares. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, MOTHER!, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Keith: JG Ballard’s HIGH RISE and David Cronenberg’s SHIVERS • Scott: David Gordon Green’s STRONGER • Tasha: Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert’s THE BIG BAD FOX AND OTHER TALES Outro Music: Kate Bush, “Mother Stands For Comfort” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:23.8	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the. You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.0	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.2	in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:55.8	I'm Scott Tobias here again with Keith Theps and...
0:58.3	Tosh Robinson.
0:59.3	Producer Genevieve Coskey is behind the boards this week, auto-tuning us.
1:02.9	On the first half of this episode, we discussed the Exterminating Angel, Louis Buniel's
1:07.2	anarchic satire of societal elites trapped at an opulent dinner party.
1:11.3	For the second half of the episode, we're staying inside from Mother, Darren Aronofsky's
1:15.5	allegorical horror comedy What's It, which also takes place entirely on a single estate
1:20.2	where many arrive and no one leaves.
1:22.8	No one in Mother has a name, but it's safe to say that Jennifer Lawrence stars as the title
1:27.3	character, a woman who's been working hard to say that Jennifer Lawrence stars as the title character,
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