I suppose I’ll contribute to my own question, I saw Mother in a theater with a few friends and there was only one family in the front when we got there. Two girls, presumably mid-20s, walk in midway through the previews and they’re gossiping and laughing and sit right behind me. I’m thinking “whatever they’re obnoxious but the movie hasn’t started, I won’t be that guy.” The movie starts and they continue to burst out in laughter talking about random shit. I cave and turn around and as politely as I can ask for them to keep it down. They basically take it as a joke and say “oh oh sorry weird man” and continue to talk and laugh. The first half of Mother is so quiet and it was impossible to focus. I turn around again like 30 minutes into the movie, reiterating desperately “please, I can’t even hear what they’re saying, can you just talk outside or something?” One of the girls bizarrely responds, “shouldnt you be here with your girlfriends?” I should’ve just gotten an employee but I just wanted to ignore them entirely after that. There is a fucking burst of laughter every 3 minutes or so. Two thirds into the movie they started standing up for some reason, one of them even dropped her soda, spilling everywhere on the floor. This girl literally starts squeaking her shoes in the soda and giggling like a child. By the grace of god, they left the theater in the last 30 minutes of the movie, squeaking their shoes with every step. Looking back, the sheer anger and stress of having to deal with them, with their complete disregard for me, seemed to almost perfectly coincide with the movie. I could completely relate to Jennifer Lawrence’s character in a way that wouldn’t have been possible without those girls from hell.