Tal Abbady, in an interesting comment in the thread discussing Richard Brody's review of "Mother!," guesses (she hadn't seen the film) that Michelle Pfeiffer was probably squandered in this film, yet in reality (SPOILERS AHEAD) the first half of the movie really could have had the title seem mostly about Pfeiffer, and her terrible incremental invasion... and thus a clear twin to "Black Swan," though its inverse, in that it's the mother who makes herself queen of the show, relegating the young woman from front and centre to background. Then she's gone, with really just hooligans and a PR lady and an idiot priest after her thereafter--a mistake for the Devil, as it recovers the movie a bit for Lawrence: these lot are ample in numbers, but without perspicacity, without cunning, and an eventual escape from them can be imagined once she's built up enough fury, with "Mother!" being then clearly about her as pressed u...