Darren Aronofsky still gets hate mail over ‘Mother!’
Mother! is still affecting audiences, and the director has the fan mail to prove it.Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, Mother! is a psychological horror film which sparked controversy through its depiction of violence and biblical and environmental allegories.The film’s subjects were raised again during a masterclass at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival on Sunday (October 17), where the director fielded questions from an audience of young filmmakers, actors and writers.Speaking at the event about mother! (via Variety), Aronofsky said: “We were nervous about how controversial it was going to be, but then when you release a movie to the world, and there’s so many angry people, you start to wonder, ‘Hold on, what did I do?’.“I get some