Not a Horror Movie, but an Antichristian Religious One!

Rating: 5/10 (13 December 2017)

You probably have to be familiar with the bible stories to understand what this movie is all about. If you're biblically illiterate, don't waste your time on this. Mother! is full of symbolism that could leave general audience clueless. The mansion is Earth. Lawrence is Mother Nature. "Him" is the Judeo-Christian God. The invading sickly man and his lustful wife are Adam and Eve, the warring sons Cain and Abel. The first half of the film is the Old Testament, the second half the New. Those are pretty obvious as none these characters has a name. And not just the plot, there're loads of other biblical references: the crystal (forbidden fruit), the flooding in the house (the Flood), frog and blood (curses to Pharoah in Exodus), the baby sacrifice (cruxifiction) and so forth. However, make no mistake, Darren Aronofsky is an atheist who made this movie to preach not the gospel, but environmentalism. In the end, the house is overwhelmed by the crowd of invaders who come to worship "God" but vandalize the house instead, so "God" sets the place and Mother on fire with oil - yeah, OIL, the ultimate devil, the source of carbon emission - as the divine punishment on mankind for their sin. The message is clear, but nonethelss it's awful, for it's sacrilegious and therefore controversial. It's definitely convenient for the director to write the script based on the bible and cast JLaw his girlfriend as the lead, but I'm no fan of his radical liberal view.