Spoiler alert, welcome to discuss together, because my own film viewing notes are in English, so I am too lazy to translate and write in English. Please forgive me.
Let me talk about a funny thing. Before I went into the theater, I saw an audience at the front desk complaining angrily that the film was too bad and wanted to be refunded. This is the first time I heard that the United States can still operate like this. Does anyone know? Can I get refunds for unsatisfied movies in China? I asked, it seems that the audience in the American AMC watched the movie about less than half of the time and left the scene in anger. Just explain the reason, but other theaters seem to not work.
I was a little surprised when I saw it. Later, I paid attention to it in my own cinema. It should be that I noticed at most once in a foreign movie theater that the audience checked the movie on the phone time from time to time. Not only watching the time, but also from time to time can hear all kinds of complaining groans. When the heroine perceives that she is pregnant, the audience laughs directly. . . In fact, this is really to a large extent to blame for the announcement. Obviously, it should go the way of art award-winning movies. It happens to be like a haunted house suspense thriller. Until now, some people think that it is the most popular horror film type of psychological horror in recent years, but This is actually a typical author movie. With the expectation of a thriller genre, the audience will of course be disappointed when they see a movie that is completely the opposite of their expectations. Just a few days after the release, the audience rating of Rotten Tomatoes has been dropping. It is interesting to compare the actual type of black swan and the art publicity method, which is completely opposite to this time.
The interpretation of this film can be very diversified. I am more opposed to some people emphasizing that the metaphor must be environmental protection/Mother Earth or must be feminist. Other interpretations must be wrong. I don’t understand it. This is very boring. . Because after all, everyone is not the director himself, and multiple interpretations of a movie are actually successful in a certain sense. Even if the director himself says that it has no political meaning, it may not be the truth. As far as the current political correctness atmosphere in Europe and America is concerned, if he admits it, then his Hollywood film career can be said to be ruined directly. Many film critics have already mentioned other interpretations, so I will only mention one possibility.
"Below the surface narrative about religious symbolism it is all about fear of poors and immigrants ruining the country for the property owning ruling classes."
In fact, I personally prefer this statement. I think this movie is a political satire film with a slight feminist element under the cloak of a thriller, but it is not the United States, but Europe. The following is just my personal interpretation, welcome to discuss.
First of all, let’s talk about the heroine. This woman without a name represents not a specific person, but a general individual, could be anyone.
Male protagonist, poet. He never showed what poem he wrote. The heroine was moved by his new poem and said it's so beautiful. According to the whole film, I think it refers to a government/politician/or a person in power who only speaks beautiful things. Every time the heroine is in danger or has an accident, she will only say beautiful things, saying that I love you but no action, eager to pay attention, always take from the heroine without paying, and squeeze the heroine to the last moment.
Uninvited guest: Expect to speak of refugees rather than immigrants. There are several types of uninvited guests in the whole film. At the beginning, the couple + two white sons. I think it refers to the representatives of the early Eastern European immigrants. The white people have different values, but there is not much difference. The two sons came because of their parents. Eccentric so that one kills the other represents a struggle between immigrants due to unequal distribution of resources. The look of the elder son leaving the house means, do you think it’s safe for you to stay? Later "guests", carefully observe that there are fewer and fewer white people. When you reach the back, you can almost only see people of color. The only white person is a special police officer who tried to save the hostess but was soon headshot. The most exaggerated thing is that at the end, there is an Asian face saying in Chinese: "Give me, give me". . . In fact, there are still one or two non-violent guests who seem to be good people. The hostess found that the wall has changed color. She was surprised to see a black man and another girl of color happily painting the wall, "what are you doing?" "help you piant." "Why are you doing it in my house?! I don't need your help!" Immigrants build a new home, and the hostess doesn't need it. To build a house by yourself is to build a home. The female tenant said to her in surprise, why it takes so much trouble to build it by herself (and she invaded the hostess’s home by herself). . only need peace and order at her house/homeland. There is a homeless old man who takes a soup and will lie down, "i'm so tired need a place to stay. who are you?" "Me? I'm the house owner. "Haha, you're the owner?" There are too many examples of this.
Sex: The discussion between the wife and the hostess about intercourse actually led to a point: either you are not sexy enough, or he can't. Then the woman blurted out in anger, "you can't even fuck me." gave the result. So what does this "you can't do" refer to? English is impotent, on the one hand impotence, on the other hand it is a kind of general weakness (sense). The government is unable to satisfy the heroines (the people), the economy is declining, job opportunities are dwindling, and international influence is declining. . Later, a sex finally came, which may represent a short life, national welfare, which led to the conception of the female protagonist and a new hope-baby. rape: intruders only beat the hell out of you and steal and ruin everything, but it's politician/husband that rape you, gives you false hope. "I gave you everything, but you gave all away!"
Heart: The hostess enters the bathroom of the visitor couple. What cannot be washed away from the toilet is the heart of the weak husband. In the end, the hostess also contributed her own heart. The heart can represent believe, or prospect. The husband has no idea about her own country. I lost my expectation and lost that heart. The heart of the house represents the hope of the country as a whole. After 30 rooms, there were more and more people, more crazy things happened, and the color of the heart of the house turned black. In the end, the heroine had nothing left, what the hero asked for was that the heart turned into a crystal in the end.
The crystal is in the study, and the study never allows others to enter. The only time the male protagonist gets angry with outsiders is when the guest sneaks into the room without knowingly or intentionally breaking the crystal. The crystal can represent the core values of Europe, devotion to the country/homeland, law and order. The interesting thing about the study itself is that it is safe from beginning to end. The last 30 minutes is the last safe place. The hostess is not in the bedroom. It is produced in the study room, this is the only safe, outsiders and heroines who are not invited to come may represent the ruling class/high class/political dominant class.
Medicine: A kind of repression of the reality, mental opium, having a child/hope, saving the medicine.
Child: hope/future generation or spiritual inheritance, the female tenant is the hostess, you have never lost a child, and you will never understand how I feel.
I think the oil in the basement is the power of the people. It can be extended to revolution/nuclear weapons. It will not be used at the last moment, and once used is the price of death and death. The frog that emerged from the closed room in the basement represented a glimmer of life.
The last song that appeared was called "the end of the world", indicating the end of the world would come when you allow them in... Samsara means that history repeats itself several times and will continue to repeat itself.
Some may be over-interpreted, but my American friends and I thought it was an anti-immigration film. Hearing the lines in Chinese, I was excited. .
Add a paragraph from the director's own statement, just mentioning a sentence of migrant crises disrupt governments.
This'director's statement' by Darren Aronofsky' was released a week before the premiere at the Venice International Film Festival: "It is a mad time to be alive. As the world population nears 8 billion we face issues too serious to fathom: ecosystems collapse as we witness extinction at an unprecedented rate; migrant crises disrupt governments; a seemingly schizophrenic US helps broker a landmark climate treaty and months later withdraws; ancient tribal disputes and beliefs continue to drive war and division; the largest iceberg ever recorded breaks off an Antarctic ice shelf and drifts out to sea. At the same time we face issues too ridiculous to comprehend: in South America, tourists twice kill rare baby dolphins that washed ashore, suffocating them in a frenzy of selfies; politics resembles events;people still starve to death while others can order any meat they desire. As a species our footprint is perilously unsustainable yet we live in a state of denial about the outlook for our planet and our place on it. From this primordial soup of angst and helplessness , I woke up one morning and this movie poured out of me like a fever dream. All of my previous films gestated with me for many years but I wrote the first draft of Mother! (2017) in 5 days. Within a year we were rolling cameras. And now two years later, it is an honor to return to the Lido for the world premiere. I imagine people may ask why the film has such a dark vision. Hubert Selby Jr., the author of Requiem for a Dream ( 2000), taught me that through staring into the darkest parts of ourselves is where we find the light. "Mother!"begins as a chamber story about a marriage. At the center is a woman who is asked to give and give and give until she can give nothing more. Eventually, the chamber story can't contain the pressure boiling inside. It becomes something else which is hard to explain or describe. I can't fully pinpoint where this film all came from. Some came from the headlines we face every second of every day, some came from the endless buzzing of notifications on our smartphones, some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]At the center is a woman who is asked to give and give and give until she can give nothing more. Eventually, the chamber story can't contain the pressure boiling inside. It becomes something else which is hard to explain or describe. I can 't fully pinpoint where this film all came from. Some came from the headlines we face every second of every day, some came from the endless buzzing of notifications on our smartphones, some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]At the center is a woman who is asked to give and give and give until she can give nothing more. Eventually, the chamber story can't contain the pressure boiling inside. It becomes something else which is hard to explain or describe. I can 't fully pinpoint where this film all came from. Some came from the headlines we face every second of every day, some came from the endless buzzing of notifications on our smartphones, some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]It becomes something else which is hard to explain or describe. I can't fully pinpoint where this film all came from. Some came from the headlines we face every second of every day, some came from the endless buzzing of notifications on our smartphones, some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]It becomes something else which is hard to explain or describe. I can't fully pinpoint where this film all came from. Some came from the headlines we face every second of every day, some came from the endless buzzing of notifications on our smartphones, some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]some came from living through the blackout of Hurricane Sandy in downtown Manhattan, some came from my heart, some from my gut. Collectively it's a recipe I won't ever be able to reproduce, but I do know this serving is best drunk as a single dose in a shot glass. Knock it back. Salute!" [Aug. 2017]
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