11 Film Endings That Didn't Solve Anything

7. mother!

One of the most divisive movies of the decade (how could a flick that features a scene where a new-born baby is snatched away from its mother, killed and then eaten by a group of a manic cultists be anything but?), mother! is all about symbolic cycles.

Ostensibly about a fractured couple bonding over the impending birth of their first child, the two are driven apart when the man (who has no actual character name) cares more about the attention he gets from other people than his lover, inviting more and more people into his house who adore him, but shun his wife.

And then the house descends into an apocalyptic hellscape (literally), Kristen Wiig comes in and starts executing people (literally), and the wife burns the whole thing down with everyone inside (literally). Of course, Aronofsky intends for audiences to bring their own interpretations to the story, whether that's viewing it in the context of religion or celebrity fame, but even with all of those ideas in mind, the ending still solves very few of the mysteries the film poses beforehand.

Not only does the ending render everything pointless, as it implies the whole thing will just repeat anyway and none of the actions actually effected anything, but a lot of previous plot points never come into play The mysterious golden substance the mother drinks is never explained, the gaping wound in the house never fully comes into play, and there's no easy answers for WTF you just watched.