Well, you are not alone wondering or wondering or saying: What is going on in Heaven? What is this I am watching? Is what I see now be classified as a film and a film work? Really, strange film! But what did you expect from the filmmaker his cinematic record is full of weirdness? Anyone who knows filmmaker Darren Aronofsky will not be surprised by his films. For example, the film "The Fountain" or "Pi" or "Requiem for a Dream" is so strange and many examples are from his film record ... So do not be surprised in the future of films "Darren Aronofsky", It does not accomplish the movies consumed, It is known for its ambiguity.
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Now let's go back to our main theme, analyze and try to extract logic from a movie! Mother!
But before we start, you should know that the film often accepts one interpretation, because it is not the kind of mysterious film that may accept many interpretations. You will find everyone who saw the film and was able to understand his experiences gives you the same interpretation, because the film draws its mystery from the history stories and are found in most civilizations and all three religions ... So, if I reviewed some books of history and religions and philosophy there will be one explanation, not second.
Above all, what is the story of the film? It's like a play in a couple's house that turns their quiet lives upside down when uninvited guests come to their home, and their relationship as a couple becomes at stake, which will destabilize their lives.
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What does man and mother represent?
The man or what is called in the film "Him" represents God or Lord, and this interpretation will be easily derived by everyone who saw the film for the first time. For the explanation of what the mother represents, continue to the last explanation in order to understand it well.
In the film, we see that a man is a poet who writes poems, where he wrote a poem that stunned readers and people to the extent that they glorify and worship him as the only one in the world to write those poems. The director emulated this interpretation of the religious aspect, we know that the Creator or the Lord in all religions created people to worship him.
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What do these poetic poems represent?
If you see the explanations of this film by those who convert to Christianity, you will find them interpreting the poems as the Bible or the Bible, from an Islamic perspective that we can interpret as the Holy Quran, for the Jews to interpret as the Torah. But we will not enter into these rationales and we will say that they represent heavenly books.
What is the stranger who came to them and then his wife followed?
The man was interpreted as Adam, and his wife who followed him was Eve, and if she remembered well in the scene that vomited in the toilet, the man (or god) covered a wound on his right rib. We all know the story of Adam and Eve since the latter was created from Adam's right rib, meaning that the wound was interpreted as the rib from which his wife (Eve) was created. And then ... followed by their sons ...
I think you have deduced what these two sons represent?
Yes, the two sons represent Cain and Abel, and a scene that kills each other with a knob represents the famous story known in all three religions, when Cain murdered his brother Abel.
What does the house represent?
If you remember well, the mother told the strange woman who came with her husband that she was trying to restore his coloring and decorate to make him look as beautiful as paradise.
A second proof that the house represents Paradise is when the man and his wife tried to enter that room to see the jewel. The owner of the house stopped them and told them that it was forbidden to enter them, And then after they entered into it, they broke the jewel. This scene was interpreted by the story of Adam and Eve when they were in heaven and the devil drove them to eat from the tree, and then God denied them because of their disobedience to him, but in the film we saw how the man angered the owner of the house and ordered them out
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What does that chaotic end mean, where people are fighting each other?
This is the moment when many will think that the director really lost his temper to go up the film from the strangeness to the madness, but he wanted to imitate what happened in the history of mankind and is still happening so far; yes in a somewhat exaggerated metaphor, but he tried to show that intolerance and adherence to Personal opinion and belief among adherents of each religion. As we see in the film people are fighting each other, as in fact, all followers of a particular religion fall and fight to prove that their religion is the right but they forgot that they worship the same Creator, but different ways of understanding religions differ. And this is what we see in the film, is the same poem, but everyone understood it in its own perspective and The war started and the kill spread among them.
What does that child represent?
Yes, as I expected, the child represents Christ Jesus, but, in order to understand it well, you must explain it from the Christian perspective, because in our Islamic religion, Christ Jesus was not killed, In fact, God raised him to heaven. As for In the Christian religion, they believe that Christ was crucified and killed, and this was simulated in the film with the child who held them in their hands until they killed him and ate him.
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What does the mother represent? What does that heart represent?
Mother is the Mother Nature, which takes care of life and cares for its aspects, and has been interpreted in the film as a necessary element of the Creator or the Lord to create and create. In Islam, we know that God does not need any creature, nature, mother, or anything at all (As mentioned in the Qur'an) in order to support him. , But in the film the Creator was embodied as having the Mother Nature in order to continue.
This is what he explained when he took the heart of the mother's heart, and then turned from that dimension to the jewel, and thus was able to revive life again.
Thus, the film is a metaphorical interpretation of the Creator and Mother Nature (and how it plays an important role for him), his creation of mankind and His Messenger (represented in the Child as the Apostle Jesus) and His heavenly books (represented in his poetic poems), but the latter has something of a thumb or contradiction .
If we consider that the strange man who came with his wife to their home are Adam and Eve, he said that he was presented to him on the pretext that he is the greatest fan of his books and poems, and if the latter represent the Bible or in general the books of heaven, how can explain that the books of heaven did not descend Only after the death of Adam and Eve?
In other words, the heavenly books did not descend until after the era of Adam and Eve, but in the film the strange man and his wife (the actors in Adam and Eve) before coming to the house (to heaven) They were aware of the poems (about the heavenly books)! Perhaps this aspect of the story has not been well-focused by the director, but it is considered a gaffe.
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