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In my opinion, Darren Aronofsky's films have always belonged to the side of the sword, as can be seen from Requiem for a Dream (2000), which he wrote and directed. Obviously, this is a thoughtful and creative director. His "Mother" (2017), is still "not surprising and dying". In a dilapidated mansion, waves of strangers who are like "rebels" have turned a family into chaos, and finally got out of hand. Is this a reflection of our lives, or is this the eerie reality of the world. Obviously, the director's direction is misguided.
For the heroine (Jennifer Lawrence), there is nothing wrong with the house, but it can only be left unchecked. As a writer's husband (played by Javier Bardem), he can't write works and loses his motivation to create, so he invites a doctor (Ed Harris) who calls himself a cosmetic surgeon to move in, and his wife (M. Charle Pfeiffer) also came. I am curious that none of them have names. For the director, like the mayfly creatures, they don't need names. The problem is, this pair of uninvited guests, once they stay, come and go like a host. With the ideal of being brothers all over the world, her husband opened his arms to accept them.
But this is not suitable for wives who need independent personality and free thinking. This is where the conflict begins. It's not enough to eat, drink, and shelter. The couple will also make a shock, deliberately damage the master's beloved utensils, provoke the relationship between the masters, and love and love recklessly in front of the hostess. It just doesn't make sense. Not only that, the two sons of the doctor and his wife broke in and made a big noise in one night, just to compete for favor in front of their parents. As a result, the idiot brothers fought and the eldest beat the youngest and the youngest to death.
Before this, I thought that the couple who moved in was just a trick of Hollywood's old-fashioned conspiracy, but the death of the person ended my thinking. Besides, there's nothing to deceive about this run-down mansion. After the husband invited the unfamiliar couple to stay, he laughed and cried for a while. He was held and embraced by them, and he felt that they broke his things at every turn, which was deeply hateful, but he still let them stay. People are dead, they should stop. Indeed, after a few days of silence, the wife was eager to complete the man-making plan with the writer.
The wife just wants to live a peaceful life, give birth to a cute baby, and be a veritable mother. After the couple left, the husband also wrote something during this quiet period, and it was recognized by the publisher. This has earned him fame again, and his wife is also pregnant, which can be described as a double happiness. While they were living a quiet life, the doctor and his wife came again, and they brought all the friends of the three religions and nine classes with them. Not only that, but another wave of homeless people, even refugees, crowded the house.
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These heroes and heroes came, and the husband welcomed them with open arms, without any sense of disobedience. But can these wicked people do anything good? There are two words for their arrival, one is "demolition", which removes all useful things from the wall, and the other is "robbing", which robs all available supplies. It's outrageous. The hostess was completely stunned, and it was useless to let her voice hoarse. The husband should come out and take care of it, it's useless. The husband is still having fun with the people. Writers are held high by others, and they have long been incited into dizziness, so who cares about the wails of their wives.
It's not the worst. They stayed until the hostess was pregnant with a big belly. As a result, the wife gave birth in extreme pain, and the baby was snatched away by these robbers before he had time to look at it. The husband thought that they just wanted to see the true face of the little baby. Unexpectedly, these people swallowed the little baby alive with a smile. How can this make the mother not crazy. Her ultimate counter-attack is to let all these inhuman humans, her writing husband, this dilapidated house, and of course herself, be buried in the sea of fire.
This is the ultimate co-destruction of a "Mother". If you don't choose this way, do you have any other way. Although, the film is a bit too hard, but its moral is clear. Husbands with Datong thoughts are open to all who come. Anyone who claims to be a fan of his works treats them warmly and treats them with good food and drinks. As a result, after a series of accidents, they also incur his wife, children and family. of destruction. At the same time, it also shows that it is obviously unrealistic for a weak individual like the hostess to fight against the whole noisy and dilapidated world.
Is this a denunciation of "white left" thinking, maybe. At least a reminder. It is not uncommon for refugees to be rejected without discrimination, and the incompatibility of cultures and habits eventually affects the originally peaceful society, and even terrorist attacks occur. Of course, it's not as if the film was burnt to ashes at the end. The writer husband wants to get high praise from others and get inspiration from it. This kind of superficial creation itself is a problem. Being content with loneliness is what a writer should stick to.
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The director intends to ridicule those who are chasing fame and fortune, not just writers, but society as a whole. In the face of his wife's questioning, the writer did say that "this is just a huge and silent darkness". But he was willing to fall into this eternal dark abyss. I have to admit that this is still a patriarchal society, and the male owner has no choice but to worry about and frighten women. The arrival of waves of strangers has only one purpose: to destroy, and they never build. They took over the quiet life that should belong to her.
The film creates many illusions, such as the hostess always feeling an inexplicable fear of dark holes and smudges in the walls and floors. These visions become more incomprehensible as strangers come in. It's not her imagination, it's the bad reality that always leaves us lost in a mess. A world that needs to be balanced, inclusive, less delusional, and more rational and intelligent is the only way to solve the future of mankind, and it is also the way of our human existence.
But how many people can really penetrate this kind of image and give us the thought shock. I think most people will be so frightened by the scenes in the movie that they lose their basic judgment. So, I'd say the film is a bit over the top. But overall it's a well-crafted masterpiece.
As time goes on, the inner influence shown by "Mother" will become increasingly prominent. How to build tolerance on the same values and cultural level is the most important starting point for building a better world. This is true even for a family and a couple. If you lose this grip for support, it will always bring turmoil in the end, and tolerance will become an empty word. From this, how to build an orderly world, not just because of empathy and acceptance.
Sometimes, we humans are always victimized by kindness and enthusiasm. There have been countless catastrophic events caused by goodness. We do not want populist conservatism, nor open-minded stupidity. When a woman just wants to be a good mother, when the dream of a mother is gradually lost, this lush home will no longer be beautiful, and it will be a nightmare after all. But for this difficult world, what the director expounds is just an invisible black hole, because time will always quietly give the answer.
2017, 12, 12
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