Reviews & Ratings for
mother! (2017)

Okay, so this movie has so many layers, it's going to be hard for me to deliver a review as good as the movie. Every body will take away something different from this brilliant movie, what the movie means to them. However, here, I will give you what I took away from the movie while watching it, which is pretty mortal, and what Darren Aronofsky actually tried to portray, which sets in after a little bit of thinking and reading.
The only location you see is the huge house, whose rooms you can't stop counting, and the grass and trees all around it, making you realize it is a remote house. None of the actors have names, but that did't get in the way of the movie once. Most of the screen time is mother, beautifully portrayed played by Jennifer Lawrence, so you start feeling like you are mother. you start feeling for her and with her. And soon enough, it felt like the entire world is pitched against you and mother, even though the first half of the movie does not have many characters. Even mother's husband, Him, starts looking suspicious for a crime that hasn't happened, but just for letting in a stranger man and his wife into their home, and allowing them to stay for as long as needed. Mother's husband sure grows fond of them, but you and mother both keep feeling uneasy about it, and rightly so, as that's where it all starts.
While watching the movie, one thought didn't leave my mind: either I'm insane, or everybody else is. Mother's husband is a creator, a poet, and his need for people to read his work unimaginably exceeds his need to write for himself, in such an unhealthy way He craves for followers, for worshipers, and gives them whatever they want, forgetting that mother is the one who built this house and gave him everything she could, eventually even a baby. It talks about desire to another extent, and He does not love mother as much as he loves how much she loves him.
However, this does not explain the beginning and the end of the movie, and this is where the references come in. The entire movie refers God, with Him being the Lord, and mother being Mother Nature. Let that sink in.... and then I would suggest you to head over to YouTube to learn more about the Biblical references, because it is a lot to think about. It leaves you with a very heavy message in a very subtle manner: you there, watching the movie, are the antagonist, and not any character you watch on screen. You are invading into this world what Mother Nature lovingly built for you, and keep using her for it, forgetting who really owns it.
Before you start getting bored of me trying to convince you to watch this movie, proceed over to watch this movie, and think about what you took away.

Though movie independently did a good job of showing pain, disgust and anger, it has a different symbolic meaning altogether. It is an allegory of God and the Earth. http://collider.com/mother-movie-explained/