"Mother!" is perhaps the most controversial film of the year, and the film's comment section presents a battle between two factions. One side thinks it is Darren's brilliant masterpiece, the other side believes that Darren's ambition exceeds his strength. In my opinion, movies provide an outlet for fans to vent their mutual dissatisfaction. It also comes from the ambiguity of the film. This article also tries to interpret it from the perspective of artistic creation.
Aside from the highly dense religious symbols and social innuendo, the core of the story is actually a story about creation. him played by bardem is a poet with exhausted inspiration, and mother played by jl is the source of his creativity. The publisher of him in the film directly calls mother inspiration. And all he does is exploit inspiration infinitely until it dries up again. This tells the truth that creation has never been immoral. The author is a vampire in a sense (here, all forms of art creators are collectively referred to as authors), and life is the object of his nourishment. The occurrence of events, even tragedies, as long as there is artistic value, will excite the author. Just like him in the movie, he got inspiration at the moment of having a child, but at this time he abandoned his wife and abandoned his son to find the fleeting feeling, and even forgot that he was still naked. At this moment, the author transcended the shackles of the ethics of the world and obtained the sublimation of divinity, because from this moment, the author became the god in the world he built. Of course, not all authors are so extreme, but it is undeniable that this kind of temptation from the subject matter, this kind of undisguised creative excitement, cannot be avoided as an author. He reminded me of Lin Pingzhi in Jin Yong's works. Under the temptation of swordsmanship to ward off evil spirits, he swung his sword from the palace in front of the bridal chamber. In the ruined new build villege (an inexplicable sense of irony strikes) you can see many people with cameras, people making short films, and their compatriots have not stopped the pace of their consumption events. Therefore, the cold-blooded conclusion is probably too rude. It can only be said that the temptation of creation transcends everything. He said: my words is your words, there is nothing wrong, art is stealing, great art is a stealing under the sun, the stealer is happy, and the stolen is even more happy.
There is another temptation, the desire to communicate with the audience. God created the world and also created the audience. Artists like Strickland ("The Moon and Sixpence") are still in the minority. A writer who is confident in creating masterpieces needs the consolation of gifts, and the praise of the audience is the best gift. Inevitably, since the first audience arrived, he was like a smoker who had released his addiction to smoking, immersed in worship and unable to extricate himself. This raises the question, what is the end of artistic creation? Even if the work is finished, it may need to be published. Mother and him are irreconcilable on this issue. He got an audience, a huge audience, a huge audience. And it turns out that everything has a price. Mu Xin said: Worship comes from misunderstanding. And more worship means more misunderstanding. The guests who enter the home in the film are also the audience who enter the work. They worship (photograph), superstitious (steal), dismantle (demolition), reconstruct (paint), quarrel, and fight. The author's work becomes a battleground in which he fights his own views. The author's dominant position gives way to the audience, and self-expression becomes the primary goal beyond interpreting the work itself. In the film, mother asks the visitor why the house is being dismantled, and the answer is: to leave our mark. In the novel "Silence", Father Ferreira, in order to persuade Rodrigo to abandon religion, told his Japanese believers that the God they believed in was the God they misinterpreted. Because the pronunciation of "God" and "Dainichi" is almost the same, the Japanese just God is replaced by the sun that has always been worshipped. The final work (baby) in the film was torn apart, digested, and reverberated, while the source of the work was forgotten. As the source of the work, the mother, who was the source of the work, no one remembered her contribution, but was trampled and beaten by the angry crowd. Fanatical audiences have always been a dangerous group. The crucified Jesus may have the most say. As one of the greatest artists, he has the most ardent fans and black fans. How much of the current teaching is really what Jesus really wanted to convey? The author and the audience, the idol and the fans, are actually fighting for control forever. He also found that he actually lost control in the end, but after experiencing everything, when new inspiration hits, when the desire for communication emerges again, he still chooses Been here over and over again. This layer of desire created his Sisyphus trap.
It's hard to pinpoint what genre Darren's film falls into, horror and suspense are just a few elements in my opinion, I'd define it more as a surprise movie, especially the intense second act. In order to achieve the effect of surprise audience, the director used a double sword, the first sword is to compress time. Darren greatly compresses the time for characters other than mother to receive information and respond, and the main perspective we follow is mother who responds to the normal passage of time just like us. So from the arrival of the visitor in the first act, like mother, we often look back and find that the actions of the characters have exceeded our expectations, or are no longer in our expected line of sight. The second act condenses centuries of evolution in one night. The most classic of this method is Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" throwing his
The bone that has been connected for thousands of years. But Darren took it to an extreme, resulting in a new movie-watching experience. As for the second sword, it is to challenge secular ethics. Dissatisfied husbands, selfless wives, misbehaving old couples, and, most extreme, infanticide. Each stimulates the self-moral conditioning of a portion of the audience. This is also one reason for the bipolar evaluation. Imagine being forced to watch a series of events that contradict your own values for two hours. It must not be a pleasure. However, as mentioned earlier, artistic creation is to some extent unethical. In his short story "Hell Changes", Akutagawa Ryunosuke portrayed a painting idiot. In order to create the appearance of a real hell, he could torture the painting boy, just to experience various punishments, and even at the moment of his daughter's death, the desire to create was also lost. Tightly poke Liangxiu. Yoshihide is a portrayal of Akutagawa, just like him is a portrayal of Darren, he captured the momentary inspiration and created this brilliant work, not to provoke others, but because of its unique beauty. Darren opened his doors, and as I write this, I am another intruder.
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