This article is divided into the following sections:
Plot
marriage
Feminine consciousness
Bible
Other metaphors
Plot
At the beginning of the movie, a woman stands in the midst of a raging fire.
In the next picture, Javier Baden places a gem in the room,
The apocalyptic style of the room gradually became gorgeous, and a sleeping Jennifer Lawrence appeared in the ruins.
Immediately afterwards, Jennifer Lawrence woke up from the bed.
If you do the second brush, you will find this clip is a very important foreshadowing.
Javier and Jennifer live in isolation, Javier is a writer, and Jennifer is a housewife.
On this day, Ed Harris came here,
He claimed to be a doctor, mistakenly thinking that this was the accommodation provided by the hospital.
When Ed was about to leave, Javier invited Ed to stay overnight without seeking Jennifer’s advice.
That night, Ed always coughed, and we could still see scars on his ribs.
It is worth mentioning that Jennifer always sees the apocalyptic scenes of rotting houses and a beating heart. He needs to drink a yellow potion to restore his health.
The next day, Ed’s wife Michelle Pfeiffer came uninvited,
Ed and Michelle said they didn't want to trouble Javier, but Javier once again let them stay without asking Jennifer's advice.
Michelle’s emotional intelligence is very low and her mouth is open. She and Jennifer asked why they didn’t have children when they first met, whether it was Jennifer’s problem or Javier’s problem.
Not only that, Ed and Michel also smashed the crystals in Havel's room, and Havel was very angry and prepared to drive them out.
Earlier, Javier said that this crystal is very precious, and a fire took everything from him. He found this crystal in the ashes.
This is also an important foreshadowing.
However, Ed and Michelle smashed the crystal one second, and the next second they started to do shameless things nonchalantly.
Just when Jennifer was about to see off the guests, Ed and Michel's two sons came uninvited. From their conversation, we can learn that the younger brother has always been loved by his parents.
The brother was jealous and killed his brother on the spot.
That night, Javier felt that Ed and Michel had nowhere to go, so he invited them to stay and asked them to invite their relatives and friends to come here as guests.
Two of the guests had broken the sink, causing the water spray to continue, and all the guests, including Ed and Michel, also left.
Seeing that the guests were gone, Jennifer and Javier had a fun together.
On the third morning, Jennifer found out that she was pregnant, and Javier was very happy.
(You rolled the sheets yesterday and got pregnant today. Don’t you doubt that the child belongs to someone else?)
What happened yesterday inspired Havel's creative inspiration. He immediately started writing and contacted the publisher.
In the evening, Jennifer prepared a generous dinner, but found that Javier’s fans came to visit one after another. They gathered at Javier’s house, where they could sleep, steal, and even paint the walls and demolish the house.
The police immediately rushed to violent clashes with people, and eventually both suffered.
Jennifer gave birth to a baby. After Javier waited for her to sleep soundly, he showed the baby to people, but the baby was eaten by people.
Jennifer was furious and lit the combustibles in the basement with a lighter, and the whole house was burned.
Subsequently, Jennifer stood in the raging fire.
Havel is intact. He dug out the heart from the unrecognizable Jennifer's body, took out the crystal inside, and placed it in the room. The apocalyptic style of the room became gorgeous again.
Then, a woman who resembled Jennifer woke up from the bed.
The last act of the movie is exactly the same as the first act. It is the beginning and the end, mutual cause and effect, never ending. Six reincarnations, endless loops.
"Mother! "It can be called the most WTF movie of the year, which means that it can't be evaluated by good-looking and bad-looking, but astonished, shocked, and mixed.
In fact, the film implies multiple metaphors:
marriage
Marriage and love are "Mother! "The most superficial metaphor is also the easiest to see.
Havel is full of male chauvinism and a workaholic. He does nothing but write.
He took the initiative to allow Ed to stay overnight, took the initiative to let Ed and Michelle live, took the initiative to let their relatives and friends come to the party, took the initiative to let fans come to the house to eat, drink, and even beat and burn. He valued writing and publishers and ignored pregnant women. Wife... He is too vain, too self-centered, and too selfish. He doesn't ask Jennifer for any decision, because he doesn't think it's a big deal.
He kept saying that he loved Jennifer, but he didn't do anything.
He killed the chicken to retrieve the eggs, dug out Jennifer's heart, leaving her dead.
He can accept being with another woman. In other words, his wife is fungible to him, not necessarily Jennifer. He is like this to every woman, he can say "I love you" to every woman. He is in love with Jennifer on the surface, but he is not a warm man, but a central air conditioner.
Jennifer is a housewife. She decorates the room, washes clothes, cooks, and has children. She does everything that Javier doesn't do.
She wants children, but Javier always can’t do it; she doesn’t like strangers, but Javier always takes strangers home; she wants to feel safe, but Javier goes to the hospital and leaves herself alone; she wants Celebrating having a child, Havel kept thinking about work, writing, contacting publishers, and entertaining fans.
Jennifer did not get happiness after getting married, but went to death in just three days. Does it imply that our marriage is the tomb of love?
Feminine consciousness
We can see that Javier only does superficial effort and ignores his family. He doesn't know how to refuse. He can agree to any unreasonable request. He comes to be a good man and Jennifer wipes his ass.
Javier brought Ed and Michelle to the house. Jennifer refused Michelle to enter Javier’s room many times; Javier asked Ed to bring relatives and friends to the house. It was Jennifer who told them not to sit on the sink, and it was Jennifer. Tell them not to enter the bedroom at will; Javier brought fans to the house, it was Jennifer who prevented them from stealing, and it was Jennifer who came to call the police.
And what did Javier do? He showed the baby to a stranger, causing the baby to be eaten. It can be said that success is insufficient and failure is more than failure.
"Mother! "The metaphor that implies the awakening of female consciousness, Javier can not bring Jennifer a sense of security, and even does not come forward to defend Jennifer, even the most basic solicitation of advice, nothing can help. His incompetence prompted Jennifer to rely on her own. She used glass to kill the Quartet and set the house on fire.
Jennifer was burned all over, but Javier was unscathed. He even let Jennifer die. Jennifer said, "I don't have anything to give you." Javier would dig out crystals from her body to squeeze her surplus value.
The irony is that no matter how hard Jennifer tried, even if he tried hard to death, he still failed to get the respect he deserved, just making Javier a wedding dress. She dedicated the essence of life to Javier, and then withered and died like a flower.
She is replaceable, and even, she may be a substitute herself, a spare tire for the heroine of the previous reincarnation.
No matter how hard-working Jennifer is, she is only a housewife after all, but Javier is always a good person in everyone’s eyes. Jennifer is not the only one of Javier. After she died, Javier would find many women to replace her, and the crystal that Jennifer condensed at the expense of his life became Javier's ostentatious conversation.
Women work harder than men do nothing. It does not mean that women are incompetent, but that women have worked too hard.
Bible
In the credits, we can find that the four protagonists have no names, Jennifer Lawrence as "Mother", Javier Baden as "He", Ed Harris as "Man", and Michelle Pfeiffer Acting as a "woman".
The method of concealing the character's name is not difficult to understand. Ed represents the first man-Adam, Michel represents the first woman-Eve, and Havel represents God.
The scars under Edri are a metaphor that God created Eve with Adam’s ribs, so Ed’s wife Michel appeared the next day. This also explains why Javier and Jennifer had never heard of Ed before then. Have a wife
Ed and Michelle breaking crystals and doing shameful things are metaphors for Adam and Eve stealing the forbidden fruit;
Javier drove Ed and Michel out of the room metaphorically that God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden;
Ed’s eldest son killed his younger son, a metaphor for Adam’s eldest son Cain killed his younger son Abel;
The guest's nonsense is a metaphor for the world's nonsense;
The leaking tank is a metaphor for the great flood. In the Bible, God saw that people are sinful on the earth, so he announced that he would use the flood to destroy all the flesh and blood living creatures on the earth, and all of them would die;
Jennifer gave birth to a child, a metaphor that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, and the movie poster also hinted at this;
People eat the children metaphorically, "The Last Supper", Jesus gave the body to everyone to eat, and the blood to everyone to drink.
"Luke" 22:19-20: I took the bread again, thanked me, broke it, handed it to them, and said, "This is my body, which I gave for you, and you should do the same. In order to commemorate me." After the meal, he also picked up the cup and said: "This cup is a new covenant made with my blood, and it is poured out for you."
On the first day Ed (Adam) was injured in his ribs, and on the second day Michel (Eve) came; on the second day, Jennifer had fun in fish and water, and gave birth to a child on the third day. The time in the movie is based on "days", which is also reminiscent of God's creation of the world in seven days.
Other metaphors
We can also think of houses as America. Javier brought strangers in as a metaphor for the White Leftists accepting foreigners without considering national conditions. He said to Jennifer "Do you want me to tell him to leave" is a typical White Left speech. He denied that others had to do something for the country and society. "Inhumane" practices;
The guest breaking into the house is analogous to the entry of foreigners/refugees;
Strangers beating, smashing, looting and burning are metaphors for foreigners/refugees disrupting order;
The police attacking people is likened to the suppression of criminal foreigners/refugees by military and police forces;
Jennifer saw the end-time scene metaphorically discovering the problems of the country and society;
Jennifer sees the heart gradually turning gray as a metaphor for the deteriorating society;
The hole in the house is a metaphor for social unrest;
Covering loopholes in the house with blankets and patching loopholes with wooden boards is not helpful. It is a metaphor for social problems, and it is too late to mend the situation.
The potion that Jennifer drank was a metaphor for the country's use of lies to appease the people;
Jennifer poured out the potion, metaphorically no longer escaping, no longer self-comforting, choosing to face problems, or not to listen to lies to appease the people, in order to see the problems of society.
Even, we can think of the house as the earth. At the beginning, guests still have a sense of measure, as a metaphor for human beings to treat the earth well;
The guest destroys the house, as a metaphor for the destruction of the ecological environment by human beings;
Jennifer ignites explosives, as a metaphor for nuclear weapons to bring the earth back to the beginning.
From this perspective, the film also has the meaning of advocating environmental protection.
Javier’s fans become nagging, metaphors that an ordinary group may gradually evolve into a cult, similar to "The Wave."
Javier said: "Now I want to try everything again."
Then he took out the crystal from Jennifer's body and placed it in the room, making everything return to the original point. A woman who resembled Jennifer but was not Jennifer woke up again from the bed. The metaphor of history is always similar, but it is not a simple repetition. A stone can make a river splash, but its impact on the long river of history is minimal.
The setting of the film's infinite loop involves the themes of traversal, parallel universe, and butterfly effect, which means that the whole event is a strange circle that can't go out, similar to "Horror Cruise" and "The Night Comet".
The parallel multiverse theory of quantum mechanics, there will always be a path in the garden of crossing paths, so that people can get happiness at every node in their lives. In every unforgettable choice, there is always one you have chosen the right path; in the vast universe of sandy Ganges, there is always one you, happy for life.
In addition, the film also has metaphors about philosophy, politics, religion, etc., with various interpretations. There are a thousand "Mother!" in the hearts of a thousand people. "This is also destined to "Mother!" "The word-of-mouth is polarized. Some people think that this is a work of God, while others think that this is a bad film.
None of the existing movie genres can be accurately and appropriately named "Mother! 》Classification,
The movie scoring standard that we are familiar with is also very important for "Mother! 》 Is not applicable, because usually we rate a movie based on the superficial "good or bad" or the deep "good or bad" of the movie, but there are many hidden clues, rich metaphorical hints, and exaggerated plot. The direction and strong visual impact made "Mother! 》It is difficult to judge by "good-looking" or "good-looking". Whether you give it a full score or a zero score, you have to say that this is the most cult, weird, subversive, and anti-routine movie this year.
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