Mother! Plot Analysis--The Dying Struggles of an Expired Writer

Carmel 2022-09-20 11:06:53

Summarize the movie in one sentence: a conceited writer who has only published one book in his life, the distorted psychology of frantically looking for inspiration after the inspiration is exhausted!
The male protagonist Baden's acting skills are still perverted, oh, by the way, seeing a lot of Yan Dang complaining that Baden is old and ugly, he is probably jealous that Mr. Baden has your big cousin! But unfortunately, Baden is actually the protagonist of this movie, or it can be said to be the only protagonist. Although the wife played by Jennifer Lawrence is structurally a female protagonist, in fact, except for Baden, all other people and things in the whole plot are just the imagination of the male protagonist who is a failed writer. Everything about himself has built an absurd and strange spiritual world, just to escape from the world.
1. Look at one of the movie posters. There is a whole beautiful face of Lawrence. There is a crack on the left side of the poster. It is not a skin scar, but a crack in the wall. You know, the director and the producer are both I'm telling you, the big cousin is not playing a human this time!
2. Starting from the first guest, Lawrence will question gently and implicitly every time, while Baden lacks unusual enthusiasm, excessive hospitality, and completely disregards the usual good relationship with the heroine and completely ignores the heroine. It expresses very clear feelings. If you don't know the plot and look at this beginning with the idea of ​​watching a horror drama, you will definitely feel suspicious. What is the purpose of the director's arrangement? Could it be that they are not living people, but ghosts or something? Anyway, I guessed so at the time, so in fact, the guests are not human!
3. At the beginning and the end of the film, the heroine wakes up in the activation of the diamond. The first thing is to touch the bed, and then say: "Honey!" From this, it is inferred that this word should express her husband. Meaning, but I don't know if you have noticed, from the first time Bardem kisses Lawrence in the film, to the various rivalry scenes between husband and wife in the film, they all behave like husband and wife, or Lawrence has given more love than his wife's obligation. , but Baden looks like you posted it upside down and I readily accept it. This is called maternal love, not conjugal love, which is also a major source of the movie's title!
4. There is a scene, about 35 minutes into the film, when the real identity of the first guest, the cancer patient played by Ed Harris, is revealed for the first time. Combined with Baden's meticulous care for him, it is not difficult to see the director's intention, that is, to express clearly that all this is because of the male protagonist's narcissism, and his desire to pursue a sense of accomplishment, a huge, feeling that he needs to be affirmed A sense of accomplishment - as he did when he published his first book. There is also a detail that sets this off very well: when the first guest noticed the huge diamond, they were on the shelf where the diamond was placed, discussing the hero's book, and the guest said: Oh, no wonder You will have many copies! Just imagine, which normal writer, when collecting his own works, will put a stack of them on a shelf with limited space where many precious items are displayed on one side (diamonds are placed on that shelf) at the same time? Because the male protagonist, the fucking failed writer, only has this book, a poor one!
5. There are too many details, and it is not difficult to see the director's intention: except for the male protagonist, there is no one else in the film. Those who are alive, including the female protagonist, are not living people, or people who actually exist, and things do not actually exist. thing! Otherwise, do you think the director is shooting a magic movie when he shoots the scene where the sea of ​​fire and diamonds activate the real environmental characters?
6. Except for the male protagonist, including the female protagonist, all can be swallowed up by the sea of ​​​​fire, and only the male protagonist is immune. Even at the end of the film, after the diamond is placed on the shelf again, the reborn heroine can change her face at will, so ah, the big cousin of the god horse, the god horse Lawrence, the god horse dew point, soft tone, soft body, hard-working and hard-working. , In the narcissism, madness, and darkness of the male protagonist's psychology are floating clouds!
So I said, this liar is actually a one-man show of Baden. The eldest cousin acted very hard, I like it very much, but she still can't compare with the old drama like Baden in terms of acting skills, she is still growing!
PS: Crazy about the relationship between husband and wife, family ethics, and even the melon-eating people who rely on the theory of environmental protection and gods and demons, 1,000 viewers have 1,000 Hamlets in their hearts, I really want to write, about this film, you can write super Lots of metaphors to come.
PS again: If it were me, I would add a paragraph at the end: Baden, an old and wretched, wrinkled face (as many people said in the film review), alone in a dark and damp basement rental house, masturbating with a tube and having a pain in the ass Can't write anything, crazy, hysterical but can't do anything, break all the movie watching experience, fuck metaphors and think to yourself, just to make literary films as good as commercial films, this should be more beneficial to the box office , Depressed for two hours, the refreshing feeling of sudden realization will definitely make the film spread by word of mouth among fans, hee hee hee!

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Mother! quotes

  • Mother: [to Him] Make them go!

  • HIM: [to Mother] Your love. Is still there, isn't it?