Yeah, agreed. I loved the film, I think it's Aronofsky's best since The Fountain (and for me that's high praise), but it wasn't nearly as confusing as it was painted out to be. It's very complex, but not random or bananas.Quoting Spinal (view post)
Anyway, early on during the film I felt echoes of Rosemary's Baby and that led me to think about what this material would be like directed by Roman Polanski. Aronofsky's style has changed a lot over the years and the first person approach to directing that started with The Wrestler is at its most blatant here. But somehow, the escalating absurdity of this story is something that I can picture Polanski mastering quite well.
I don't know, I'm still thinking about it, but it's a great piece of psychological Horror and probably my favorite Lawrence performance to date. Michelle Pfeiffer was also excellent.