No story, all by means

Roman 2022-09-27 13:06:47

To be honest, I wouldn't have watched this movie if it hadn't been repeatedly recommended by students. After watching it, I found out that it was another new work by the director who made "Black Swan". And it was only after checking the information that it turned out that the director wrote the script in just a few days with a sudden inspiration. And it's also because I saw the poster (the protagonist's husband holds a globe in his hand) that I really understood the theme of the movie.

I don't like so-called thrillers, just because I don't find it scary to watch, so I feel bored. What's more, for some mysterious works, because I have seen a lot of them before, I am a little tired of aesthetics now. In the process of watching the movie, I also played a few retreats. Although I finally finished it, the latter part was also sloppy.

At first, I thought the film was just showing a mother's "prenatal blues" during her pregnancy. Because the protagonist is very clear, and the movie looks at those "illegal intruders" from her point of view. Not to mention the exaggerated narrative in the second half. Just after the husband wrote the work, the work was published there... Soon fans filled the room, and even the war came...

As a way of showing the inner world, and showing the inner world as the "real world", this is the usual trick of the movie. What's more, "Black Swan" is one of the best. All, the protagonist in the back actually died, and it was after the arson and the intruders died together. And her husband actually took her heart, turned it into a new gem, and restored the entire house with magic. Echoes the opening scene where the husband guards a surviving gem. This broke my "assumption" earlier.

Like an inattentive student, I had no way of guessing the answer. So I checked the information. Of course, the answer is clear and easy to understand: Mother is the earth and our home. Her husband is God. Those intruders, those fans, those stupid, rude, greedy, violent guys are us. The universe is infinite, and the living world is constantly cyclical, and human life is just a passer-by. And God, he seems to be ruthless (after all, he is facing an infinitely circulating earth), and he seems to be too tolerant (after all, he is facing such a bunch of human beings), and even more helpless, he seems to create wonderful scripts for the world, all of which are his world. But it's basically a mess. Of course, if understood in this way, the truth is ancient, the theme is lofty, and the narrative method is nothing more than materializing the earth and gods, and then breaking the general narrative habit (we are generally used to taking care of the world and mastering events from the perspective of gods) , put God and man in one story, beyond one level.

So, if there's anything to admire, it's this. 2018/1/27

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Extended Reading

Mother! quotes

  • Woman: Can I ask you a question?

    [pause]

    Woman: Do you really love your husband?

    Mother: Yes, of course.

    Woman: [sarcastically] Are you telling me the truth?

  • HIM: My wife *loves* having company.