Jennifer's cousin's "Mother" was released in 2017, and the box office fell sharply in Europe and the United States. It seems that it was also selected for the Golden Raspberry Award. This also made me realize that we are not so far away from the actresses who won the Golden Raspberry Award the day before and then won the Oscar the next day. Don't talk about character, just talk about the acting skills of the big cousin in the mother's acting skills are excellent. Numerous single-person close-ups and long shots, and a narrative style with many metaphors, she has mastered it too well after the 1990s. But today's long review is not about the acting skills of the eldest cousin, but the interpretation of the film's multiple metaphors (personal and simple).
First of all, what is most officially recognized and approved by the film is the movie's suggestion of the doctrine of Christ | God, and the role of the mother is projected on the Virgin Mary. (In the beginning, I was projected on Goddess Gaia, but I was corrected by the movie, director, cultural background, etc., but I still want to say that the movie has the mother part and finally couldn't bear to get angry. It seems that Maria did not directly destroy the whole world. This kind of setting, but in comparison, Gaia will be bloody and cruel, such as directly calling his son to castrate Uranus, who is also his son and husband, and the water that drives away the guests for the first time should be a direct metaphor The world-destroying flood is also in Greek mythology, so it is a bit like Gaia.) The visiting couple can be a metaphor for Adam and Eve, and the atrocities of human beings destroying houses are also a metaphor for the shortcomings of human nature such as greed, mother He was very distressed for his family, and his father (heavenly father) always indulged human beings, even if he chased away human beings once, there would be a second time. There is also an obvious religious metaphor about the mother's pregnancy. Whether Maria or Gaia's pregnancy is a bit of metaphysical magic, it is not difficult to understand why the heroine is so sure that she is pregnant when she wakes up, and she is really pregnant. pregnancy thing. And the book written by the Heavenly Father called out his believers. This book is also a good metaphor for missionary books such as the Bible (New Testament). As I am not familiar with the doctrine, I will write here about Orthodoxy.
There are also many people who see the relationship of love in the movie mother. The man is a tactful and sophisticated person who can chat and laugh with strangers and show generosity to outsiders. The woman, on the other hand, is more introverted, delicate and gentle, and wants to maintain some order in her beloved and her heart. But the man who is outside the host keeps on betraying, to the point of almost ignoring his lover, and he still wants a pair of "I'm for you, for the righteousness of this family." I even feel that there is no problem with the heroine, even if there is a problem, it is the heroine's problem. This kind of arrogance is indeed very similar to the attitude of the man in life when his lovers quarrel. (There is even a kind of thing between lovers that cannot be solved by an act of applauding for love? Hahaha) Of course, this metaphor is really simple, not as big as religion, and the second half of the movie does evolve into Not being real, starting to get out of life. But in my opinion, the interpretation of love is also an indispensable part of multi-faceted interpretation.
The following interpretation is mentioned by very few people, but it is indeed the most profound and direct impression I have in the first half of the movie, which is the cumbersome contradiction between literature and all art and life. This interpretation depends on the process of writing the book by the male protagonist. Many people think that a large part of the inspiration for writing a book is the invasion of outsiders and the stories of outsiders, which is wrong or not comprehensive enough. Personally, in my opinion, the inspiration for the male host is basically from the hostess. When the back home was invaded frantically, the staff of the publishing house was a reporter or something, and the hostess was called "Inspiration" several times. It can be seen that the man's book is to make the hostess's heart have incomparable disputes, and even tear herself (it should be to tear herself or the outside world to tear herself, and let herself collapse), of course, there are also beauty and perception of life, etc. , in order to appear inspiration into a book. In the outside world, the male host has always called the hostess "my goddess", and there is a metaphor that she is his muse. Just as Lu Xun said, "Tragedy is to destroy the valuable things in life for others to see", your literature or art is incompatible with life and full of contradictions. You just don't like being slick and sophisticated, you are forced to accept life, but when you are destroyed by this life, destroyed by love, destroyed by yourself, and rebuilt, then you can have art. Move yourself, move the world.
There is also a little bit about the interpretation of sect (cult) religion. I saw that the second half of the film is a very obvious metaphor for religion (almost not a metaphor, it is a simile), but my heart is still very entangled. What the film wants to imply is exactly Orthodox or cult. In one of the scenes, the heroine was forcibly pressed against the wall by the police to check her teeth, and then I read the translation of the version saying that the checking angel has been infected. It made me feel that this should be a cult story, and the heroine's potion is some kind of drug control or hallucinogenic method. The host is a cult leader. And to later draw a black moon in the corner of the left eye. (Although some people interpret this as the projection of the Holy Ash Cross on Wednesday) I still doubt whether it is a cult or an orthodox religion, or is it true that all orthodox religions are cults in some sense, and will be suppressed, cause or experience wars, Hunger, disaster and more.
Maybe it's because it's so unclear, there's no answer, it's his answer, that makes this movie so wonderful, let me give him five stars.
2018.8.1
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