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maybe if I'd known a bit more about it it might not have been quite so disturbing. But it wouldn't have made me think it was good.
I think this was intentional on Aronofsky's part.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/04/darren-aronofsky-mother-art-hollywood-secrecy
Just read the plot on Wikipedia - Wow.
Yep. This was us last night. Made all the worse by forgetting how much central LDN cinemas cost!
Assumed it was a creepy horror, rather than the most harrowing film I've ever seen... maybe if I'd known a bit more about it it might not have been quite so disturbing. But it wouldn't have made me think it was good.
It was also too long.
(fwiw I loved Pi, Requiem and Black Swan)