You must be mother to understand!

Rating: 10/10 (24 September 2017)

"Mother" must be read alongside with "Melancholia" by Von Trier. In both movies, the melancholia of the first character is projected to the reality, and the whole world has become melancholic, as our real world actually is. In "Melancholia", the name of a hard and meaningless object is the name of movie: A planet which threatens the whole earth! but in "mother" the melancholic metaphor is lied beneath the everyday life of a woman, her husband, and the child. After you experience the very core feeling of being a mother (as an audience), the movie takes you far beyond: the realization of melancholic feelings. From the psychoanalytical point of view, the mother (Jennifer Lawrence) is not simply melancholic: she starts from obsession, and she dreams about making their home a paradise. But eventually, her husband, the intruder (as every child experience his/her father), allow every terrestrial intruders in her paradise. So, as they intruders kills her child, her heart becomes stoned, and finds the infinite feminine power of "Medea" in herself! To kill and destroy anything. If you want find yourself in the movie, you cannot be anything but an intruder, they are representing our world and us generally. So, when "mother"'s husband (which is the god for all people in the movie), send the baby to the public, they sacrifice the baby and brutally eat his blood, such as an spiritual ceremony. It is therefore an Anti-Christ version of the myth of ascend/descend. But at the end of movie, the Father/God (Javier Bardem) saves the mother as its purest (by killing her, and extracting her heart), in the shape of a big beautiful diamond, which is extracted from the burnt heart of the mother. That is how God and Satan are colleagues, and the only salvation for humanity remains not in reaching out God, but in the feminine act.