Mother! Ending Explained: So What Exactly Happened?

For those who are ready to discuss the horror film Mother! 2017. Beware of spoilers. We will tell you what the meaning of the film is, what the plot is about, we will give a description, how the film ended and reviews from critics. At the end, you will find a review, the director’s own opinion about the shooting and the film, his understanding of the essence and decoding of the idea.

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About the film Mother! they say because Jennifer Lawrence starred there. Everyone went to look at her. Adding a bit of secular noise with the scandalous obscene gesture of the actress in response to negative criticism about the film, a romantic relationship with the director and the unusual genre format of the movie itself, the audience rushed to see what Aronofsky shot there. By the way, here are all the films of Darren Aronofsky.

Description, full plot and summary

The plot is completely built around a lonely house that a girl equips while her husband is busy looking for a muse to write a future poem. The marriage is unequal — He is twice her age, and they dream of children when the renovation is completed.

Family privacy is violated by a stranger. The old man is ill with something and calls himself a fan of the poet’s work. She no longer understands anything, and He does not seem to notice her torment — the stranger stayed for the night, then brought a daring wife, and then two sons appeared who cannot share their father’s inheritance.

The tension came to a head when one of the sons killed the other. She watches in horror as her house is being destroyed, blood is shed on the floor, and strangers walk through the rooms. Time for the first quarrel over uninvited guests. She and He merge in love for each other when the uninvited guests are gone.

The next morning, realizing that she is pregnant, She continues home improvement — soon the baby will appear. And He was inspired. He is ready to write like a madman and a wave of creativity swept over him until he gave birth to a new masterpiece.

Everything is like in a dream. She read the poem and understands that she will lose him, but not before that — people crowded around the house. They want Him, they want to be with him, to pray to him. She does not notice how people enter the house — some to go to the toilet, some to sleep. Everything is out of control. People worship the poet as a god, inspired by his talent, and meanwhile the house is being destroyed, because everyone wants to take a piece for himself.

With great difficulty, in the midst of uncontrolled chaos, She makes her way upstairs and gives birth to a son. He helps her. They are happy, but people are still waiting behind the wall, eager to see the baby. He waited until She fed and fell asleep, and in the meantime he gave the child into their hands so that they could touch him. But there are so many people, and everyone wants to take a piece for themselves. The mob killed their son.

How did the movie end

The distraught mother kills people, but the crowd is uncontrollable and blames Her for everything — it was She who killed the poet’s son.

Unable to bear the horror, She descends into the basement and blows up the house. Everything is purified in the flame. Everything started with fire, everything ended with fire. Carrying Her burnt in his arms, He asks to give everything without a trace. She understands that He does not love Her, but Her love for Him. Dying, She gives him with her last breath a stone — the quintessence of her feelings. Everything started over.

What is the meaning and essence: Darren Aronofsky about his new film

The film is based on a biblical story. No one will give an explanation of what the film is about, since Darren Aronofsky himself did everything possible so that before the show the viewer had a minimum of information about what the plot was about. All you needed to know was that Aronofsky directed Requiem and Black Swan, which means that you can expect something similar from the picture, but nothing like in comparison with modern cinema.

Aronofsky wrote the screenplay for Mother! in 5 days. He had free time, and he closed himself in the house to do a future project. Despite the unique speed, the director matured for this plot for many years.

In an interview, Darren Aronofsky shared that making a film is a long journey in itself. Every time you stumble upon a wall of misunderstanding, you gnaw out new opportunities and all you hear is “no”. With these nos, you have to get up in the morning and work on, trying to make at least something like a good product out of them. It was these emotions that boiled up in him and probably splashed out into Mother!.

When journalists asked the director about interpretations of the plot, Aronofsky felt that everything was as clear as daylight. But the essence of the film, especially against the background of the absence of any starting points, makes it possible for each viewer to drown in gradually growing experiences and find their own allegory.

Here you have the Lord God with the Mother of God, and the work born in the throes of creativity, and the masculinity that absorbs women. Imagery and symbolism are just a panel for the work of one’s own imagination. Therefore, each will have its own decoding. What you will see in the film will be your interaction with the film that you are currently ripe for.

The film is good because at any level you can find a metaphor and impose it on your sore problem.

Among journalists and critics, the explanation about difficult publicity and all its horrors became the most popular, although Aronofsky himself did not lay this idea, as he admitted. According to him, such an analogy happened by accident, unconsciously.

Review and reviews from critics

The film could not be expected to receive even reviews. The film was booed at the Venice Film Festival; The New York Observer dared not call it the worst film of the year because it is the worst film of the century; and CinemaScore provided data showing Mother! received the lowest rating from viewers.

As for the viewers themselves, there was little horror for some, meaning for others, and familiarity for others. And yet, the reviews are gradually leveling out, the audience and critics move away from the first impression and understand that in its own way — this is a new masterpiece of the director.

Aronofsky is a genius at what people say about his films. And about Mother! they also say. No matter how good or bad the reviews are, this discussion is a twist and turns of trying to get the gist of the biblical story.

The technical performance is top notch. The director refused the soundtrack, as it distracted from the image of the main character. All sounds, visual images — all this we see with Her eyes and hear with Her ears. And the growing tension only adds to the experience and it is already difficult to understand whether these are really Her feelings, or already mine?

Perhaps the only downside is the length. Sometimes I wanted to push the heroine, to reduce these 2 hours of tension and waiting, but perhaps the desired effect would not have happened if there had not been so much preparation for the process of the main madness.

You can come up with dozens of interpretations for the plot, but here’s one of them for you: the poet is tormented in trying to give out a new plot, and his muse creates the necessary atmosphere for him, teases, empathizes. Having caught the right wave, he gives birth to an idea, and his inspiration girl symbolically becomes pregnant with this idea. A brilliant creation has been created and the muse understands that it is time for her to leave, but still she wants to stay. Although the uninvited guests are already chuckling, “Is this your house? Yes? Are you sure? A child-creation was born and given to people, because everything is done for them, but with their critical mass they can only destroy, trample, tear, devour with giblets. Inspiration must be killed, it is no longer needed. But it itself chooses to leave, having burned in the fire, so that the poet can start from scratch. New torments of creativity.

Mother! — it’s a scream. This is pain from birth. This is a cry of indignation. These are all those emotions that have accumulated and overwhelmed. Mother is the beginning of the process. Life begins with her. Without her, there would be no point.

That’s all we have. How do you understand the meaning of the film and its plot? Write your reviews and reviews. Surely, you have your own decoding, what is the essence of the motion picture.

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