Since the first feature film "Death Code", American director Darren Aronofsky has continuously challenged the limits of film creation. The subsequent works such as "Nightmare Elegy" and "True Love Eternal" have a great impact on form, style, aesthetics and so on. All of them are not afraid to collide with the norms of all systems and become the most heterogeneous author-style master in the American film industry. Darren Aronofsky's new work "Mother! ", is definitely the most daring and subversive bizarre masterpiece released by mainstream studios in recent years, just like Darren Aronofsky's swordsmanship, controversial, destructive innovation, bold, even if we have been caught up in "Nightmare" in the past. He was amazed by the talent of "Elegy" and "True Love Eternal"; he was also overwhelmed by the emotions of "Turn the Tide"; he was also defeated by the psychological thriller of "Black Swan", even so, "Mother!" The symbolic thriller is still an experience I never expected.
"Mother! "Sometimes scary, sometimes exciting, and sometimes confusing. On the surface, this film seems to talk about men's self-esteem ambitions and women's instinctual desires, but this interpretation of "Mother! "It's too shallow. The whole movie takes place in an old wooden house in the suburbs. The scene is simple and the characters are even simpler, but Darren Aronofsky has the ability to set the whole story to be complicated and intricate, just the first. The screen is shaping the design of the scene, and the sense of danger in this house is already felt from the visual sense. "Mother! "The first shot is a fire scene with completely unclear meaning, a woman's eyes reflecting the brilliance of the fire, the next clip is a surreal special effect shot, the whole house is revived from the ashes in every corner, and the light is " Mother! "In the first minute of the opening, the film begins to hint at the mystery and impurity of the story.
The wooden house owned by her husband (Javier Bardem) suffered a disaster not long ago. He and his wife (Jennifer Lawrence) stayed behind to rebuild their home. He usually looks for writing inspiration in the study, while his wife is devoted to Rebuild and manage the old house, until one day a strange man (Ed Harris) visits, the husband is inexplicably hospitable, so his wife is troubled, and then the strange man's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) also comes to the house, and then More and more people are coming... If you come here, you will feel like "Mother! "The story is very strange, like reproducing the experience of Roman Polanski's masterpiece "The Lost Baby". This is only about half an hour after the opening of the movie. The development of the next movie is like a journey through a black hole, leading the audience to travel to unimaginable places. The strange world of her, like the opening of the movie, or the "heart" of the house that my wife can always feel is dying.
"Mother! " is packaged as a horror thriller, but in fact the film is a similar type of thriller that the film industry has never seen before. The film explores the relationship between the sexes, artistic creation, and spiritual inspiration. These are only the most superficial lengths. To discuss and analyze "Mother!" "It's absolutely impossible not to mention several of the film's astonishingly explosive turns (but I really can't get the thunderbolt here), and Darren Aronofsky's work often offers viewers quite a few layers of interpretation that are never clear. , not to mention inspiring.
The crack in the mysterious basement can be seen as a crack in the relationship between husband and wife, but this crack has a different meaning in the latter part of the movie; the development of the whole movie has an unabashed connection with the "Bible", and all characters and plots can correspond to it. In the chapters of the Bible; on the one hand, the film mentions the birth of religion, the value of God, the relationship between God and man, and on the other hand, the birth of man, the meaning of human nature, and the relationship between man and the Mother Earth ; How culture came into being, how the Tower of Babel was formed, why conflicts were born, whether human nature has inherent sins; the endless stream of strange visitors with diverse faces can also be regarded as immigrants, because they worship the greatness of the United States And the United States, which continued to enter the United States, and the self-esteem of the United States, embraced the pilgrims generously, and finally detonated its own disaster.
But what is the real purpose of the movie? "Mother! "The original title was taken as "The Sixth Day". In the "Old Testament", God created the world in seven days, and created human beings on the sixth day. Since then, the world has entered into destruction. The same content, Daeron Elronor Fsky mentioned it as early as his previous work "Noah's Ark", and I am afraid that he thought such a title was too straightforward, so he changed it to the current "Mother!" "Well, the film also creates a delicate relationship between human civilization and the natural environment. In the film, the wife is eager to decorate the house in her own way. When strangers seem to be kind to paint her or seize property at will, strangers think This is good intentions, decorating the house with selfish desires, interests, and selfishness, and it is not difficult to imagine the environmental catastrophe that mankind is facing today, and the meaning of the final basement moment.
"Mother! ” is a film with complex levels, aesthetics, and enunciations beyond imagination, and photographer Matthew Libatique, who has worked with Dai Lun Aronofsky for a long time, has created an impressive aesthetic for the film. "Mother! Almost all the shots in Jennifer Lawrence are over-the-shoulder shots, close-up shots, and subjective shots of Jennifer Lawrence, especially the close-up shots always capture Jennifer Lawrence's extraordinary performance from a very unique angle. Because of this, the movie plays a trick of limiting the viewing angle with the audience. We can only see one-sided information around the wife, and it is almost impossible to see the truth of these inexplicable events. Therefore, the audience can deeply understand the confusion and anxiety faced by the wife. . In addition to photography, "Mother! "The sound engineering and editing also continue to make people feel terrified and uncomfortable. In such a complex metaphorical story, the film's technical skills support the tension, suspense, and glamorous shape of the film.
As a finalist in the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival, "Mother! ” has been controversial since its premiere. The film critic media praised the master-level works, and some booed them. Some even indicated that this is a film that cannot be evaluated. The high topic of the film is also fermenting among the public. The film reputation statistics media CinemaScore Put "Mother! " was marked with an "F" bleak evaluation, becoming the 19th film in film history to receive such a bleak evaluation. "Mother! The story, the approach, the aesthetics seem to be destined for such a polarizing opinion that people will hate it, people will be outraged, and some will be thrilled, and the only certainty is that people will definitely keep talking about "Mother! , Darren Aronofsky's films are always so compelling.
On the Uber to the theater, the driver said that she had watched the recently popular horror film "It". She agreed that the movie was scary, but still thought the original "It" was better. She thought the current movies were too direct. , unlike previous films that often left ambiguous plots, leaving the audience room for continuous thinking and discussion. After watching "Mother! ", I remembered this conversation of the driver, how long has it been since I saw something like "Mother! "A normal movie, on the way home, my friends and I kept thinking about the meaning of a certain plot and a certain scene in the movie, "Mother! " is such a movie, it can be met with polarized comments, but at the same time it will be constantly mentioned and discussed. In recent years, fewer and fewer movies can have the same effect, and "Mother! ” is exactly the post-viewing experience we need in our modern times.
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