Mother!
*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD ? BE WARNED*
Ok, I watched this earlier tonight. Once the movie ended I think I sat in a daze for about half an hour just trying to make sense of what I had just seen.
I was slow in catching on to the movie's theme ? God & creation, the destructive nature of mankind and the possibly selfish & self absorbed nature of god (for the record I?m pretty much an atheist).
For the first half hour or so I was thinking it was a Rosemary's Baby type set up.
Later on I thought maybe Her (Jennifer Lawrence's character) had aborted their first child or done something else that either Her or Him found to be an abhorrent act in some way, but didn't remember doing so due to mental trauma.
There are so many elements to the film that invite discussion but the main questions I wondered if anyone else had thoughts on:
1: The Publicist (Kristin Wiig), was she the embodiment of religion? If Him (Javier Bardem) was god then, as god's 'publicist', it seemed clear to me that she must represent religion as a whole. The scene where she was executing people in that room symbolising the violence caused by religion supported this in my mind.
But if Her was the Earth (or spirit of the Earth) then what did it mean that The Publicist wanted her killed? Does this symbolize the rise of 'organised religion' over the older pagan beliefs of earlier civilizations?
Or was The Zealot (Stephen McHattie) the only character supposed to represent religion? His character was, imo, a more obvious representation of religious fervour & madness.
2: The blockage in the toilet early in the movie; this was the scene that really had me thinking (early in the movie) that it was all about Her having aborted their first child. There was certainly a resemblance to a foetus, and the blood that spurted from the object just before it flushed away really makes me think it symbolizes something along those lines. Thoughts?
3: The yellow liquid that Her was drinking before she got pregnant. It's the fact that once she knew she was pregnant, Her stopped drinking it. Right now I can't attach any special meaning to that.
I've loved Darren Aronofsky's movie's since Pi. I think he's a movie maker of major ideas and I've enjoyed everything he's made, but this movie blew me away on so many levels.
*MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD ? BE WARNED*
Ok, I watched this earlier tonight. Once the movie ended I think I sat in a daze for about half an hour just trying to make sense of what I had just seen.
I was slow in catching on to the movie's theme ? God & creation, the destructive nature of mankind and the possibly selfish & self absorbed nature of god (for the record I?m pretty much an atheist).
For the first half hour or so I was thinking it was a Rosemary's Baby type set up.
Later on I thought maybe Her (Jennifer Lawrence's character) had aborted their first child or done something else that either Her or Him found to be an abhorrent act in some way, but didn't remember doing so due to mental trauma.
There are so many elements to the film that invite discussion but the main questions I wondered if anyone else had thoughts on:
1: The Publicist (Kristin Wiig), was she the embodiment of religion? If Him (Javier Bardem) was god then, as god's 'publicist', it seemed clear to me that she must represent religion as a whole. The scene where she was executing people in that room symbolising the violence caused by religion supported this in my mind.
But if Her was the Earth (or spirit of the Earth) then what did it mean that The Publicist wanted her killed? Does this symbolize the rise of 'organised religion' over the older pagan beliefs of earlier civilizations?
Or was The Zealot (Stephen McHattie) the only character supposed to represent religion? His character was, imo, a more obvious representation of religious fervour & madness.
2: The blockage in the toilet early in the movie; this was the scene that really had me thinking (early in the movie) that it was all about Her having aborted their first child. There was certainly a resemblance to a foetus, and the blood that spurted from the object just before it flushed away really makes me think it symbolizes something along those lines. Thoughts?
3: The yellow liquid that Her was drinking before she got pregnant. It's the fact that once she knew she was pregnant, Her stopped drinking it. Right now I can't attach any special meaning to that.
I've loved Darren Aronofsky's movie's since Pi. I think he's a movie maker of major ideas and I've enjoyed everything he's made, but this movie blew me away on so many levels.