‘The Big Picture’ — Dissecting 'Mother!,' the Most Controversial Movie of the Year (Ep. 354)
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The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, just want to give a quick spoiler alert for this podcast. We're gonna be talking about quite a few of the details of the movie |
| 0:05.9 | Mother so if you haven't seen it or don't want to know them, please tune out now. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, my name is Sean Fennesey. I'm the editor-in-chief of The Ringer and here's the big picture. On the eighth day, we podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | Today we're gonna be talking about Mother, which is the new film from Darren Aronovsky. You may know Aronovsky's films. |
| 0:24.7 | He's made Black Swan, record him for a dream, the wrestler. He's a very controversial, fascinating, visceral filmmaker. |
| 0:31.4 | Mother might be his most controversial movie yet. To talk about the mother saga, I'm joined today by |
| 0:37.8 | Culture Editor Amanda Dobbins. Hi Amanda. Hi Sean. And staff writer at The Ringer Cameron Collins cam. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi Sean. You guys ready to cry and weep and explain why this movie is so important and not important? |
| 0:48.5 | I don't think the crying part is gonna happen for me personally, but yes I'm ready. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm ready to be Michelle Fiverr-Rooning and everyone. |
| 0:56.1 | So let's explain to listeners what mother is because it's this interesting thing that is a |
| 1:02.0 | controversy that is largely unseen. |
| 1:03.7 | It's a movie that only $7.5 million worth of people saw this weekend even though it opened in 20 |
| 1:09.3 | 200 theaters across the country. Amanda, how would you describe Mother to listeners? |
| 1:14.0 | Am I doing the honest version or the version that |
| 1:17.3 | the studio and Darren Arnorski presented to the world? |
| 1:20.0 | Let's go studio first and then we'll explore what the what it really means. |
| 1:23.8 | Right because this is the controversy is that not a lot of information or it's one of the controversies that not a lot of |
| 1:30.0 | information about the film was given to people. What we knew is that it had some goofy punctuation in the title and that it's |
| 1:38.1 | star Jennifer Lawrence and there were enough kind of teasers trailers to hint that it was gonna be weird and a little |
| 1:45.7 | horror adjacent and also if you know Darren Arnorski's work at all, you know that it's gonna be a little weird and horror adjacent |
| 1:52.6 | but that was it pretty much. |
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