The history of human stupidity and selfishness

Rating: 10/10 (6 December 2017)

The meaning of this movie is so entirely obvious. It's just about the stupidity and selfishness of mankind.
The happy couple live in a lovely big house - an Eden, uninvited guests seemingly with nowhere else to go keep arriving. These arrivals could have been worthy guests, especially if they'd been good people and their visit had been announced. It's a big house and there is probably work that needs doing, but these guests are entirely self serving, loathsome and full of stupid and self-destructive habits. Many of the later arrivals are sociopaths and psychopaths that fight among themselves. They defile all that they see, even what is held sacred, and ignore good advice, as the most petulant adolescent might. On different occasions a few individuals try to help, but it's so fleeting to be of no consequence.
The film is clearly drawing parallels between the way humans behave towards nature, the unsustainable industries and fighting over man-made concepts, no reverence of nature or care for all its genuine riches. A fact that depresses me every day - built into this story. Similar to James Cameron's Avatar without the blockbuster obviousness. There are also echoes of Christianity, and how people have misunderstood the true spirituality and meaning of it.
I wonder if it's the case that people that see nature as something that's there to serve them and have dominion over, hate this film, or it's an effect of their cognitive dissonance or the style the story is told. Spiteful nonsense like Lars Von Trier films, often garner praise whereas Mother! being a similar concept with actors on a limited set is much deeper and far more meaningful on every level. I'll watch this film again to draw more from it.
I wanted to give this film an eight or nine out of ten but some of the hateful reviews are just unbelievably childish, so I've given it a ten, just to balance things out. Surely if you don't like the meaning of the story you can accept there are some amazing performances and some sublime cinematography and direction, at least making it worth a five out of ten.
If you like the Fast and the Furious, Transformers, going shopping to buy plastic products you don't need, or believe rigid fundamental religious dogma this film might anger you.