mother!

I had to read a bunch about this movie, rewatch it, and write down tons of stuff in my notes full of information and interpretations because this film hits lmao so here we go. This film is about a biblical allegory about God and the Earth, “Him” who is The Poet, is God, and “Mother” is Mother Earth, an allegory of both the Old and New Testament and a critique on religion being used to justify destruction. I’ve noticed that the dialogue and MANY scenes are incredibly symbolic. And I wanna try to touch over them all. For starters is the ignorance displayed by The Poet and the other people in the movie, represenmting “God’s” negligence towards humanity, and “Adam and Eve” and “Humans”, the mess they made and the entitlement they had in an area that didn’t belong to them. i.e. representing how humans are so ignorant and destructive on the only planet we have that we can call “home”. I remember a scene I wrote down, After the poets fans barged into his house after he invited them, to write autographs while being neglectful about the havoc they caused, in amidst it, there was a scene where a man who took a cloth from the house and said he was going to lay, the Mother said he can’t, and said— “This is my house.” He laughed and replied, “The poet said it’s everyone’s house!” This scene in my opinion speaks about how humans can use “God’s words” as if it’s some type of universal law that allows them to be oppressive, unfair, destructive and cruel against each other. Thus, against Mother Earth. After this scene we see sequence of events that I can easily interpret as humanities many major issues. A scene where a woman steals The poets stuff along side a vase, when Mother tried to stop her the vase broke and she said “I have to have something of his!!” makes me feel like this could be a metaphor for how humans take and take from nature and ultimately Mother Earth without any sense of understanding, or it could be religious psychosis where they obsess over “God”. This interpretation gets some confirmation after Mother walks in of The Poet hugging his fans while they cry and gush over him, he “marks” them with ink and they start to obsess over it, everyone then wanting to be “marked” by “God” and in a cult manner obsessing over him with pictures of him and ink, even throughout the whole movie. there are more and more people stealing things and absolutely destroying the house while ignoring Mother who is actively yelling at them to stop. Again, a representative of how destructive and ignorant humans are. The next is a scene where the police barge into the house, mother instantly asks them to please help her and they grab her and turn against her instead of helping. This scene could represent how corrupt the “justice system” on earth is. the next scene is Mother walking into another room and first up finding a woman crying and running away, dressed almost in a “prostitute” way, while a man from behind comes in and drags her away by her hair, the scene instantly adjusts to the cage where many women are caged behind, begging to be helped and free. and when she tried to help them a man comes up, grabbing her for no reason and groping her chest while intimidating her. This whole scene can EASILY represent the issues women go through on earth, the scene capturing merely a few with kidnapping, sexual violence, prostitution, and brutality. The scene turns when Mother enters another room and finds a horde of peoples fighting against armed forces, this scene resembles the protests and riots humans have to go through in the name of fighting for what’s “right” or something “wrong”. with Mother seeing more people chanting and protesting in a barbaric manner. The scene then turns to another room Mother walked in where people are being held captive and killed by Herald. (I feel like herald represents some type of authoritarian. leaders, generals, elites, etc. since she is also the The Poets publisher. If we look at this in a hierarchical fashion for this particular example.) while reading about the movie…in indieWire by Zack Sharf, an article that says briefly “in a Abu Ghraib-like torture” and I agree, this scene completely represents the abuse of power. The scene then turns into a complete war zone, with armed troops entering in, one soldier finds Mother, And unlike the ignorant and selfish crowd he helps mother get to a safe place and protects her from blasts but ultimately fails as he’s shot dead, while I don’t see soldiers as “heroes” since a majority of them aren’t ethnically and morally motivated. This scene could represent a soldiers showing humility and compassion. understand that they too lose their autonomy and moral agency, becoming “killing machines” for the leaders, especially by being forced into wars throughout history. After all that havoc, the Poet finally finds Mother again and the warzone shifts into a setting where people are sick, with bunkbeds and buckets all over the place, begging The Poet for money and food. this most definitely represents humanitarian crisis, humanitarian crisis humanity goes through in AND after war The baby scene. Gosh where do I even start…After Mother gives birth to their son, this son is a complete representation of “Jesus” in the movie. soon after when Mother falls asleep holding her baby to make sure The Poet doesn’t take him away from her, he does. (looks like a fuckin’ shithead in this scene with all that constipated ass glaring his doing to Mother…) And takes them to his fans. She chases him and that’s when the scene turns into the most sickening part of this film, the baby is seen being worshipped by the fans (humans), and then….mutilated and eaten. This scene is supposed to represent the “The last supper” as a literal interpretation of consuming the body and blood of Christ, in an attempt to highlight corruptive religious devotion and destructive consumption. But I feel like there’s more to this scene. It feels like it represents the consumption of innocence through many different ways humanity has against children, the sacrifice that has them performatively grieving before brutally beating up Mother after she attacked them for murdering her child then grieving again could be a symbolism for hypocrisy (And also a clear example of the victim blaming humans love to use against each other), one being having children for their own benefit, like how The Poet clearly doesn’t care about the child because— he merely wants a muse, not a son. A tool, not a child. Another being how the humans incline towards greed, mass consumption and mass population. Again for their own selfish needs. though this example can be a little far fetched. When Mother burns the house down with her in it, after speaking with The Poet he takes her heart, and she dies. only for the crystal to return to him as the heart deteriorates, and now another women in his bed same way Mother used to be. it shows Darren Aronofsky’s personal and critical interpretation of the Bible, as an infinite cycle of creation and destruction. This whole movie was a critic of the abrahamic religions, but more specifically Christianity. And thus, the film ends… Darren aronofsky made literal art with this film, too bad he is lowkey a Zionist………hypocritical much? I mean are we sure he’s not The Poet? think about it.. he makes art like a movie like this, like how The Poet writes. while calling humanity a parasitic force that are destructive to earth, and in the real world he claims he’s a “humanist”…while ACTIVELY staying “neutral” against the Palestine-israel conflict, clearly due to his biases and cultural heritage of being Jewish. SO humane of him, so fuckin’ humane. Sigh….But hey, still i love this movie, and ofcourse, i hate humans. 💖