Mother Mary - My Take (Spoilers)

 

I'm trying to remember why I wanted to see this movie and it's kind of a blank. I saw the trailer and it kinda looked interesting? I had movies left to see that week and wanted something new? The costumes in the trailer looked cool?

Anyway. I saw it.

It wasn't interesting. It was something I hadn't seen. The costumes were cool-ish. Notice I didn't say anything about the plot because I honestly have no idea what this movie was supposed to tell. I'm not being figurative here. I'm being literal.

Most of the movie is the two women yapping at each other in hostile passive aggressive stuff, weird metaphorical stuff, whiny stuff, and oddly paranormal stuff. There's flashbacks to what seems to be the events each of them experienced sharing their pain for each other? There's a metaphor in that pain being made into something beautiful?

There's a lot of Anne Hathaway in very small couture costumes. Couture in this case means the stuff on the runway that makes very little fashion sense. She sings. Her signature stage costume persona (Mother Mary) is a halo of some kind.

From what I can pick out of this the two of them were friends, maybe lovers, when MM's singing career started and the other woman was her costumer. She made the first halo, in an interesting punk style of long nails out of heavy leather. The two of them had a falling out, possibly when MM started looking at other designers for her costumes.

She's back begging for a costume from the woman, who now has a successful fashion line, because nothing anyone else does feels like it expresses who she is. I think that's the reason. Anyway. This is when the yapping happens.

The paranormal is in the form of some kind of red ghost that looks like fabric floating. It left the designer woman and went to the singer, where it currently resides. They reconcile when the designer sets a chalk circle and they have some kind of ritual to let the red ghost out of the singer. There's the mandatory lesbian sex metaphor in there as well.

The designer makes a dress out of the red ghost made material as - heh heh - red material. It's another lesbian metaphor and oddly enough the singer doesn't wear it. She goes with a concept the designer had at the beginning of entering from the lobby and tearing off her costume as she goes to the stage to show her true self.

Maybe I did get some meaning out of the thing at all but honestly it was a mess. Too much metaphor, not enough substance to hold it up.