As a devout Catholic who has completed his baptism while living abroad, I don't like to attack anything that seems to be a satire of religion, like some extremists do. On the contrary, I have my own understanding, and Aronowski’s "Mother! ", I believe it explains my understanding of religion very well. In order to facilitate understanding, I try to use common Christian translation names in my articles, such as using Jehovah to translate God/Yawi.
We start from Genesis. God, that is, Yahweh/God/Yawi (the male lord) created the world. At the beginning of the world, the female lord may have existed like the Virgin. Here, although there is a slight conflict with the original scripture, we don't care about it for the time being. The house in the film can be understood as the world created by God. The world is actually not complete, and it is constantly being transformed, but the basic facilities, such as the sink that the heroine cares about, may be water or the ocean.
After the world was built, the first strange old man (Adam) to live in appeared. This old man who seems to have a lot of bad habits (human nature) can talk to the male protagonist (God) very well, and the male protagonist takes a tolerant attitude towards all his actions. From the perspective of the heroine, it is very difficult to understand. So that he didn't understand even more later, he actually has a wife (Eve), we temporarily call her his wife. The following signs, including the expression of the lady’s desire and sex with the old man, can be regarded as the overflow of the desires of Adam and Eve, and the man so cherished does not allow others to touch the screen but the old couple just wants to touch it. Yes, it is the forbidden fruit in the Bible. What followed were two children and a pair of brothers (children of Adam and Eve, namely Abel and Cain). In order to fight for the inheritance, the younger brother killed the older brother (Cain killed the older brother Abel). Even so, God’s punishment did not come so quickly. He still opened the door to everyone, but the younger brother (Cain) did not regret at all. It means that his family members are not grateful for God's tolerance. So, at the funeral, a pipe burst caused by the troublemaker eventually drove them away (God punished Cain's descendants with a flood, and only Noah's family survived).
Everyone (human beings) have learned a lesson, and the male protagonist's child is about to come (the Lord Jesus, the Son of God). In order to celebrate the coming of his child and to welcome a new beginning (the end of the Old Testament of the Bible, mankind is about to usher in the savior Jesus), the male protagonist began to create his own brand new poetry (the New Testament of the Bible, which is more tolerant and larger than the Old Testament). Love knot).
When the work was completed and published (preaching to everyone), the followers came in admiration, and everyone was attracted by the beautiful heaven described in the poem. The male protagonist (God) has also been sought after by everyone. But the purest belief in God is because of the greed of human nature, because the world described by God is constantly self-interpreted by people's greed, and it has provided reasonable explanations for a series of atrocities such as venting and snatching. Until the arrival of the savior Jesus, people who had forgotten the good original intention of the faith rushed to eat the flesh and blood of the savior (the sacrament ceremony, although the director expressed personally thinks that it is a bit overdone, but it does mean it).
The heroine is the "Mother" in the title of the film. I personally think that apart from the Virgin, she is also the Mother Earth. She is the origin of everything, the Virgin Mary, the mother of each of us, and our Mother Earth (Mother Earth). She is everything God needs to create the world. She gives us everything she has, no matter how unhappy she is, how much suffering a person has to bear. However, we continue to ask for such a mother. When the mother has nothing to ask for, we are pressed on the ground and fisted together. This is the core connotation of the film, and it is worth thinking about when each of us asks our mothers, wastes the earth's resources and wilfully destroys the environment. Here, the director perfectly combines the beliefs in the Bible with reality. You can no longer criticize it from a religious perspective and sneer at the story of the Bible. Because it may be each of us.
In the end, when our mother is destroyed by us, the world will also be destroyed. The male lead picked up the female lead in the flames and said "I AM I". This is the original word of God in the Old Testament when the prophet Moses asked God Jehovah. I own it.
The world was destroyed, and everything was created again by God. In the face of another reincarnation and another opportunity, human beings will continue to make the same mistakes because of their greed, and pay the price for it.
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