A symbolic journey

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2019)

Darren Arronofsky has so many movies that consist the themes of God, creation and myths. This movie is pushing the limits hard.
The movie is not transfer the message to the audience directly. Because, the movie is allegedly about problems in a house of a married couple.
The character that Jennifer Lawrence plays depicts Gaia which is the mother of earth. Javier Bardem's character is God's himself. Ed harris plays Adam, Michelle Pfeiffer plays Eve and their sons are playing Abel and Cain. The whole story and interaction between these characters are symbolizing these ancient religious stories in a different way within modern concepts. The symbolism for these creation myths are handled within a modern family problems in mystery movie. Quite a while, these symbolisms are used so well, that you can not easily get to the bottom of the story. Javier Bardem's God character sometimes reveals itself, but it is not true for the other characters. They really keep the secret well.
Symbolism concept is generally used in movies on specific inanimated objects and concepts. For example, On Suspiria or Hereditary, the symbolism that is used within these 2 movies is not directly change the route of the story but assissting to the audience to create more curiosity on them. It is spicing them up. These are good details.
However, the symbolism that is used within this movie is dominating the whole movie when it should just spice it up. I mean, the movie is depend on a myth's symbolism and therefore it decreases the pleasure of watching the movie. Because, at long last, everyone is going to be curious about the ending. Yes the myth is very good and the story is well written. Here, God always pardons everyone but Mother Earth does not. God forgives people even when they took Mother Earth's child and ate its parts. God shows great virtue on this matter but Mother Earth couldnot endure that and set everything on fire. On this matter, the child of Mother Earth can be seen as Jesus. God did not die and found himself a new Mother Earth.
The situation of arriving 2 visitors which are Adam and Eve, and duality between discomfort of Mother Earth and eagerness of Gods from this situation is really good and worth-pondering.
We understand from the point of view of Arronofsky on God, it does not want to be alone and always creating someone to worship and glorify himself. Actually, it is a cynical situation in terms of philosophy. If there is a creator which is pantocrator, these actions are redundant. As a matter of fact, loneliness and need of glorify is a feature of mankind not God's. From this point, we can see that Arronofsky used Antropomorphism view.
On the contrary, Mother Earth character brings everything on for God. She is loving god deeply but thinks that her lover coan easily decrease the loneliness feelings of God. With a suggestion from Eve she wanted to make a child. Eve character is portrayed a character which is fond of marriage and lineage a lot.
The disruption that is caused by the visitors such as Eve, Adam and other humans is a kind of depiction of brought of doom by mankind to nature.
On first midnight, we have seen a slit on Adam's ribs and he is coughing continuously. In the morning after the first midnight, eve comes which means that, God, took Adam's ribs and creating Eve. There were so many symbolic references throughout the movie.
God who could not find an inspiration to write his book, finally found his inspiration when got the first news of child. Worshippers, the mankind, disrupt everything after that. Mother Earth set everything and herself on fire and God finally took her hearth. We can see that heart at the beginning of the movie as a kind of diamond. That diamond depicts Tree of Life in so many esoterical beliefs. The house symbolizes the Earth and celing of the house is hexagonal and my interpretation for hexagon shape is, it is one of the most excellent shapes from other shapes.
Finally, it is not a movie which deeply attracts the audience but symbolism is very good, gives good messages, giving a significant myth from different perspective. I like the movies that has so many symbols but not the movies which symbols preponderate whole movie but this is a good exception 9/10