This is a history of mankind

Obie 2022-09-02 06:41:49

The film is named "Mother", which means that the film must be related to life, and the film also narrates our birth, growth and death.

If Jennifer Lawrence plays the mother, which is the subject of the film, it seems a bit biased and thin. Who is the mother? And if the theme of the film is the endless life of human beings and the reincarnation of destiny, then the mother is more than just a person.

I think the mother is referring to this house, or this piece of land, and Lawrence is just a child she conceived. At the beginning of the film, Lawrence woke up alone and called "baby", which was actually calling her own name. When Lawrence was cleaning the wall and cleaning the floor, he felt beating with his hands on the wall, similar to signs of life. After seeing that, we knew that Lawrence had not had sex with Javier Baden at the time, so it could not be his own pregnancy reaction. Therefore, it can also be said that Lawrence as a child is perceiving and feeling the house, which is the mother's life.

Lawrence was just a child at the time, but when a strange family came and wounded lives because of a dispute, our child became mature. The wound on the blood-stained floor is not exactly the shape of the female genitalia. The blood-stained girl also shows her maturity. So the night of passion soon followed, and the girl also upgraded to become a mother.

But in comparison, how small and fragile she is, happiness comes and goes quickly. Life is fleeting and fleeting like a white horse. Death comes, and is eventually swallowed by fire, and enters a new cycle.

The film should be over at this point, but I think the film seems to want to express something deeper, otherwise there would be so many messy people. When I saw that the director of the film, Darren Aronowski, came from a Jewish family, I seemed to understand, isn’t this just a Jewish history?

The Jews have built a beautiful homeland—Jerusalem, just like Lawrence decorating the house alone; Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians come here admiringly, and breaking into Jerusalem is like returning to their homes, as if the arrival of a stranger also brings them. There was a disaster of blood and light; then Muslims, Christians, and Americans landed in batches, gradually taking everything from the Jews and ruining their beautiful homes, just like Lawrence, who had nothing, finally chose to die together. Wildfires are endless, the spring breeze blows, and history has entered another cycle.

"Baby" appeared again.

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Mother! quotes

  • Mother: [to Him] Make them go!

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