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This has proved to be a controversial one, so I'll say up front both that I really liked this and at the same time kinda get why other people may have differing opinions. Darren Aaronofsky's film does not in any way work in a logical plot driven manner - it's almost entirely driven at two metaphorical levels, and if you have no patience for that, you're going to be frustrated. On the other hand, if you've been hanging out for a good all-round apocalypse, this might be the jam you're looking for. 

The setup does look for a while as if we may have something that works vaguely at the level of realism. In an isolated house, a writer (Javier Bardem) lives with his wife (Jennifer Lawrence) in a peaceful setup. But the arrival of a fan (Ed Harris) followed by his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) starts an onslaught of visitors who will disrupt the peace. Metaphor one is a religious one, which emerges more and more strongly as the writer is worshiped and the audience becomes more and more intrusive as they interpret his works in more and more violent ways. Metaphor two is about being a creative artist and your responsibilities both to the people around you and to the wider audience you wish to serve, and how you may blissfully sacrifice the people in your life to serve the hungry mobs.

Does everything entirely make sense? Are their major contentions that you can have with Aaronofsky's conception of humanity and our relationships with both each other and our religious impulses?  Does this verge on the side of massively pretentious? Guilty, Guilty and probably Guilty as well. But never the less, this is one wildly ambitious film that engrossed me thoroughly and I fell completely under it's spell.