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mother! (2017)

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mother! (2017)	comment	mother! is a 2017 Psychological Horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. It stars Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer, among others.The film centers around the poet "Him" (Bardem) and his pregnant wife "mother" (Lawrence), who share a tranquil existence in a country home that is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious Man (Harris). The Man's presence leads to a string of uninvited visitors, who are all welcomed by Him.Meanwhile, mother grows alarmed by the presence of the strangers, who impose more and more on her hospitality. With Him deaf to her pleas, she's left increasingly helpless as circumstances spiral wildly out of control.The idea for mother! came to Aronofsky while he was working on a children's film following the release of his 2014 film Noah; he reportedly wrote the film's first draft in an uncharacteristically fast five days.
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mother! (2017) / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: mother confronts Him, furious and in tears about their Sexless Marriage, and he responds with one of these. She resists, saying "No" several times before beginning to passionately reciprocate. Note that the only overtly sexual contact between Him and mother in the movie is non-consensual.
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mother! (2017) / int_10d8aa14	type	Fan Dumb
mother! (2017) / int_10d8aa14	comment	Fan Dumb: In-universe example. Him's followers take their love his works to such extremes that it results in absolute pandemonium, murder and eventually mother killing all of them out of anger for the abuse they put her through.
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mother! (2017) / int_12c1a10e	type	Reusable Lighter Toss
mother! (2017) / int_12c1a10e	comment	Reusable Lighter Toss: Mother does this with a Zippo lighter she took from Man, tossing it near an oil tank. This causes the massive explosion that ends up killing everyone but Him.
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mother! (2017) / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
mother! (2017) / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Him in his study when writing in the nude.
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mother! (2017) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
mother! (2017) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: According to early reports, the film is possibly Aronofsky's darkest and most controversial film to date, with author Mylo Carbia even comparing its potential for controversy to A Clockwork Orange. Given his filmography, that's a very bold statement.
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mother! (2017) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
mother! (2017) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: There are a lot of allusions to the Book of Genesis and The Four Gospels.
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mother! (2017) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
mother! (2017) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Audience members at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival were given cards printed with a gender-reversed version of the Lord's Prayer written by feminist author Rebecca Solnit. This card pretty much spoils the central "twist" that the movie is a deconstructive biblical allegory that criticizes Abrahamic religion.
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mother! (2017) / int_1ce1cfd8	comment	all lowercase letters: What the film's title and character names (save for Him) are styled like.
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mother! (2017) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
mother! (2017) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Not only does Mother's child get brutally killed, his killers then proceed to partake in his flesh.
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mother! (2017) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
mother! (2017) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Man's cigarette lighter. A lesser example — Him snaps off the doorknob to his study in a rage after Man and Woman enter without his permission. Mother is too distraught to pick it up. It becomes the Improvised Weapon the Oldest Son grabs to beat Younger Brother to death. The basement door.
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mother! (2017) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
mother! (2017) / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem's characters who are also the main couple. It's justified because Lawrence's character is not Bardem's first wife. Ed Harris' lampshaded this when he thought that Lawrence's character is Bardem's daughter. This happens once more after mother dies, as Him's next wife seems to be even younger than mother.
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mother! (2017) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
mother! (2017) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: The priest repeats Him's eulogy at the Younger Brother's wake as a benediction while his followers ritually murder Him's son and consume his flesh.
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mother! (2017) / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
mother! (2017) / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Teased, then averted. Mother hopes once Him has a child, he will finally put his family before his pathological need to please his fans. He does not. To a horrifying degree.
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mother! (2017) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
mother! (2017) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Although Man and Woman's dialogue — and their cellphones — seem to indicate the story takes place in the modern day, Him and mother's house contains no appliances more advanced than a simple washer/dryer set and a landline phone. mother says they've chosen to live a simple life, but Him doing his writing using a fountain pen on parchment seems extreme. (And raises the question of how exactly he submitted the manuscript to his publisher.) Justified in that the film is intended as a surreal allegory, and shortly after the publication of Him's new book, all pretense of realism breaks down completely.
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mother! (2017) / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: mother's infant child is murdered and eaten by the crowd.
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mother! (2017) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
mother! (2017) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: This movie, like Aronofsky's previous film Noah, is an adaptation of the Book of Genesis, albeit an allegorical adaptation rather than a literal one. The themes are also similar — focusing on humanity's depravity and abuse of the natural world — although this time the outlook begins quite positive and gets bleaker while Noah went in the opposite direction.
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mother! (2017) / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
mother! (2017) / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Barring any invisible Time Skips, the first half of the movie (before mother's pregnancy) takes place over the course of three days, the second half over the course of two. Particularly blatant as the second half gives us the rise of a militaristic theocratic government within the course of one evening and localized to one house. Justified, as by the second half the film gives up all pretense of hiding its nature as an allegory for The Bible and all of human history.
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mother! (2017) / int_28a65154	type	Girly Girl
mother! (2017) / int_28a65154	comment	Girly Girl: Zigzagged. Mother is proud and happy to do all of the traditional Housewife tasks like cooking and cleaning, but she also takes on the physically strenuous work of plumbing and carpentry in renovating her house. And while everyone finds her beautiful, other women like the Woman and the Herald (Him's publicist) seem to look down on her for her simple clothes and lack of sophistication. All plays into her true identity as personified Nature.
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mother! (2017) / int_28b08686	type	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
mother! (2017) / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: As the night wears on the Younger Brother's wake rapidly devolves into an opportunity for the drunken guests to hook up anywhere they can find a private (or not-so-private) spot. Mother is not pleased. Foreshadows things getting a lot worse in the second act when Him's autograph signing devolves into a literal mass orgy, women thrown in a cage to be raped, etc.
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mother! (2017) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
mother! (2017) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: One portion of the crowd at the end is chanting "So, So, So, Solidarité!" (means exactly what it seems to), while another chants "¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!" ("The people united will never be defeated!"). Both are used in protests in certain places around the world.
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mother! (2017) / int_2fa32e08	comment	Make-Out Kids: Man and Woman, despite being significantly older than Him and mother. Contributes to mother's discomfort with having them as guests, and culminates in blatant, intentional Coitus Uninterruptus as a show of disrespect. As with everything else Man and Woman do, this behavior escalates with each new wave of houseguests.
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mother! (2017) / int_302d0881	type	I Am What I Am
mother! (2017) / int_302d0881	comment	I Am What I Am: A rare instance where this trope is simultaneously used in its biblical and its Popeye sense. mother, upon seeing Him miraculously survive the fire that destroyed the house unscathed, asks, "What are you?" He replies, "I am I," revealing that he is YHWH or God. He regretfully goes on to tell her his actions are intrinsic to his role as the Creator. "I need to create. That's what I do; that's what I am."
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mother! (2017) / int_318a6781	type	Body to Jewel
mother! (2017) / int_318a6781	comment	Body to Jewel: Throughout the film, much focus is placed on a pulsating jewel that Him has in his study, where he says it was the one thing left behind in a fire that happened when he was younger. The jewel breaks. At the end of the film, Him rips the dying mother's heart out, it becomes another jewel, and when he places the jewel back in his study, another woman wakes up in his bed - implying that the old jewel that broke was from a woman before Mother.
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mother! (2017) / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: A notable element of the house's sudden, surreal descent into madness and atrocity is a man who begins dragging women into a literal cage to be held as property while mother is helpless to intervene.
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mother! (2017) / int_36c73fcf	type	It Always Rains at Funerals
mother! (2017) / int_36c73fcf	comment	It Always Rains at Funerals: Subverted. Younger Brother dies on a clear sunny day, and there's no rain at his wake that night, which quickly turns into an occasion for revelry and debauchery rather than mourning. It only starts raining when the broken sink forces the party to an end, restoring the proper somber tone.
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mother! (2017) / int_370fcc49	type	Meaningful Appearance
mother! (2017) / int_370fcc49	comment	Meaningful Appearance: We are introduced to mother in a sheer white nightgown and, in keeping with the "innocence" version of wearing white, no shoes. She changes her wardrobe during the film but always keeps to neutral white and gray clothing, in contrast to the Woman's sophisticated outfits and racy underwear — notably she has no black clothes to wear to the Younger Brother's wake.
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mother! (2017) / int_3b4185fb	type	Stalker without a Crush
mother! (2017) / int_3b4185fb	comment	Stalker Without A Crush: The one way in which Him's legion of stalkers are not obsessed with Him is sexually/romantically. Him is completely sexually faithful to mother; the fact that his interest in the others is purely intellectual/spiritual doesn't actually make it any better.
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mother! (2017) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
mother! (2017) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: All of the various people Him keeps inviting over to the house keep stealing items and damaging the property. Then, when mother's baby is born, the mob kills him and eats his flesh. Of course, this is all an allegory for humanity's treatment of Earth and Jesus.
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mother! (2017) / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: A common criticism of the film is that the religious and environmental analogies squeeze out any room for character development. The eponymous character is defined entirely by her single-minded devotion to Him.
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mother! (2017) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
mother! (2017) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: EVERYONE to mother. Him at least attempts to act like he appreciates her, unlike his guests — but this might just make it worse.
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mother! (2017) / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
mother! (2017) / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Darren Aronofsky has stated in interviews that the film is a parable for environmentalism and climate change. The problem is that the ending's theme of Eternal Recurrence, where a new mother and new house emerge from the previous one's ashes, seems to undermine climate change activists' warnings of irreversible harm and affirm denialists' belief that climate change is a matter of "natural cycles" that naturally repair themselves. Although, it does play more like a great extinction than a reversible incident. The three mothers we see aren't the same, for all we know they could be different planets.
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mother! (2017) / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
mother! (2017) / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Man shows up on Him and mother's doorstep randomly, claiming to have been told their house (in the middle of nowhere with no road leading to it) is a B&B. Then he discovers by pure chance that Him is his favorite author and a role model of his. Mother is unsurprised when poking in his luggage reveals a photo of Him, indicating the Man was a stalker from the beginning.
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mother! (2017) / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
mother! (2017) / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Him ends up needing to wear a mask to walk through his own house unmolested.
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mother! (2017) / int_4577a862	comment	Animate Body Parts: Mother finds a squirming, wriggling human heart clogging the toilet and quickly flushes it. This is far from the grossest thing that happens in the film.
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mother! (2017) / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
mother! (2017) / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: When greeting his line of autograph seekers, Him accidentally brushes one of them on the face with ink-stained hands, leaving a thumbprint on his forehead. His overjoyed fans all begin asking to receive "the mark"; by the end of the film, the thumbprint on the forehead has officially become the Initiation Ceremony to a literal cult.
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mother! (2017) / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
mother! (2017) / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: So much so that the whole screen whites out, followed by eerie silence.
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mother! (2017) / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
mother! (2017) / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: What Him's followers to do his and mother's child at the end.
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mother! (2017) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Mother 's offspring is gutted and devoured by the hordes of strangers in the house.
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mother! (2017) / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
mother! (2017) / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: After Man and Woman violate the only rule mother gave them and break Him's crystal, she goes to their room to kick them out — only to find them shamelessly having wild sex with the door unlocked. This can be interpreted as a reference to the cultural association between the Forbidden Fruit and the act of sex, especially considering Woman's bra has a leaf motif in this scene, referring to Adam and Eve hiding their nakedness with leaves.
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mother! (2017) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Subverted to present what's been cited as one of the film's most haunting visuals; if you really don't fancy seeing a newborn baby's neck snap like a twig, you're shit out of luck for this film.
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mother! (2017) / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
mother! (2017) / int_4ac8b81f	comment	In an overly environmental film, humanity proves once again capable of committing horrible acts. Upon becoming fans of Him, they vandalize the house, wage wars over interpretations of his work, massacre crowds, distribute slaves through trading, and grisly eat mother's baby son in an ultimate act of depravity after accidentally killing him.
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mother! (2017) / int_4c961994	type	Acquired Situational Narcissism
mother! (2017) / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: Him enjoys the idea of having fans just a little too much.
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mother! (2017) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: The older brother brutally beats his younger brother with a brass doorknob. Towards the end, mother stabs at least several people with a shard of glass.
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mother! (2017) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
mother! (2017) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: After her child's brutal murder and cannibalism, mother flies into a rage and burns the entire house down, leaving Him as the only survivor. Afterwards, Him rips her heart out of her charred body, revealing a gem inside which he uses to begin again, restoring the destroyed house to brand new after placing it on a pedestal. Furthermore, he now has an even younger wife, and it's very likely that everything that happened will ultimately repeat itself.
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mother! (2017) / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
mother! (2017) / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film begins and ends with the fiery death of a young woman, Him placing a jewel on a pedestal, the house regenerating itself from its ashes, and a new woman waking up in bed and calling, "Baby?"
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mother! (2017) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: Him's admirers adopt every stereotypical trapping of this trope in the final minutes of the film, for the benefit of viewers still confused about the central metaphor. The primary visual inspiration is Creepy Catholicism, with the candles everywhere and, of course, the Twisted Eucharist.
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mother! (2017) / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
mother! (2017) / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: The word is used to very disturbing effect in at least two occasions, both involving mother: when a random person's advances are promptly rejected by her and he calls her an "arrogant cunt," and when mother is beaten and stripped by the crowd, with a few "cunts" sprinkled in alongside other extremely vulgar and derogatory terms.
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mother! (2017) / int_566a7660	type	Smells Sexy
mother! (2017) / int_566a7660	comment	Smells Sexy: Mother's opinion of Him after a long, sweaty day outside. The fact that he brushes her off and goes straight to take a shower is our first hint not all is well in their marriage.
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mother! (2017) / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
mother! (2017) / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: Do not abuse Mother Nature. She is long suffering and generous, but if you cross the line, she will literally burn down everything, including herself.
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mother! (2017) / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
mother! (2017) / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Mother. It gradually becomes apparent that she experiences invasion of or damage to the house as physical pain, and her emotional distress makes the house buckle and shake. She alone of all the characters never steps off the house's front porch into the outside world. And it turns out the heartbeat she hears within the walls is her own.
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mother! (2017) / int_589661ad	type	Renaissance Man
mother! (2017) / int_589661ad	comment	Renaissance Man: Implied to be the case with Man, who is a doctor and scientist but also a huge fan of Him and his books, and loves talking to him about them. Him is a book-smart poet with an impressively well-stocked study, but also loves his long nature hikes and learning about Man's scientific research — indeed, he finds something he enjoys learning about from everyone he talks to. Unfortunately, the one topic he has no interest in, domestic matters and the upkeep of the house, is the one topic mother cares most about.
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mother! (2017) / int_5901c295	comment	24-Hour Party People: The mysterious constant stream of new guests to the Younger Brother's wake whose connection to the family is never explained and who seem more interested in debauchery than mourning. It gets worse in the second act when they switch focus to Him.
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mother! (2017) / int_59f47557	type	Vicious Cycle
mother! (2017) / int_59f47557	comment	Vicious Cycle: Considering the beginning of the film focuses with a precursor to mother doing the same thing that she did, the titular mother, and then Him's new wife after restarting everything, chances are the entire film can be seen as a never-ending cycle where "mother" endures hell, gives birth, and eventually destroys everything only for Him to repeat it again.
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mother! (2017) / int_5ecabcc0	type	One Drink Will Kill the Baby
mother! (2017) / int_5ecabcc0	comment	One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Whatever is in the tonic that mother has been drinking to settle her nerves, she pours it down the toilet once she gets pregnant.
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mother! (2017) / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
mother! (2017) / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: HIM. He has largely joyful reactions to everything that happens and flat-out dismisses Mother's concerns until it's too late.
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mother! (2017) / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
mother! (2017) / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The credits are in a "handwritten" font mimicking Him's writing on parchment during the film, with a few stray strokes added as they roll implying he's still writing even now — a gesture to the idea that Him is an Author Avatar for Aronofsky.
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mother! (2017) / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
mother! (2017) / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: Him seems to invoke this concept, feeling obligated to offer room and board to strangers simply because they are far from home and "they have nowhere to go." mother adopts the much more common sense (by modern standards) view that other people's unwise choices give them no claim on her property, especially since, under the laws of hospitality, they abandon their reciprocal obligations as guests almost immediately.
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mother! (2017) / int_6126185e	type	You Wake Up in a Room
mother! (2017) / int_6126185e	comment	mother herself, as the surreal opening of the movie seems to show Him summoning the house and his wife into existence from a burnt-out husk, with mother waking up already looking for her husband. The first half of the movie ignores this opening, with Him speaking to Man of his marriage to mother and the "months" of work she's done on the house as though we didn't see them both come into existence that morning. This is explained by the ending.
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mother! (2017) / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The trailer's music sounds like someone's trying to saw a violin, complete with Jump Scare.
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mother! (2017) / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
mother! (2017) / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Mother endures this as the film progresses, and finally when her baby was cannibalized and Him trying to make her forgive them.
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mother! (2017) / int_63fa5d78	type	Cult of Personality
mother! (2017) / int_63fa5d78	comment	Cult of Personality: Him's fans start as this. Over time, the "cult" part gets increasingly literal.
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mother! (2017) / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
mother! (2017) / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: After Him magically regenerates the house using the crystal he harvested from mother's heart, mother's corpse regenerates into a very similar (but not identical) young woman, named "Maiden" in the credits. Also, mother herself is implied to be a Replacement Goldfish for her predecessor, credited as "Foremother", seen briefly at the beginning of the film.
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mother! (2017) / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
mother! (2017) / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: At the same moment mother realizes she's pregnant after she and Him have sex, Him is struck by inspiration and feverishly begins writing. After the Time Skip, mother is almost due to give birth just as Him has completed his manuscript and submitted it to his publisher. A reference to the Christian doctrine that Jesus is the "living Word of God" just as the Bible is the "written Word of God."
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mother! (2017) / int_696ca673	type	Made of Incendium
mother! (2017) / int_696ca673	comment	Made of Incendium: Setting fire to the oil tank instantly burns up not only the house, but also the surrounding lawn, woods and possibly the entire world.
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mother! (2017) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
mother! (2017) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The fandom around Him's poetry. Inspires pilgrimages, looting of relics and eventually a literal war. Justified, as the poet represents God and his writing the Bible.
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mother! (2017) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
mother! (2017) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Him is the only character with a capitalized name.
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mother! (2017) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
mother! (2017) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Real-life brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson play warring brothers (literally) Cain and Abel.
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mother! (2017) / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
mother! (2017) / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: Played for Drama. First man and woman...then literally everybody in the house.
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mother! (2017) / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
mother! (2017) / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: Given who's directing it this is to be expected.
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mother! (2017) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
mother! (2017) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "You give and you give and it's never enough."
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mother! (2017) / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
mother! (2017) / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: Him and mother don't care for cell phones and have chosen to live in the middle of nowhere, with no service to be had. The Man and Woman have smartphones — a nod to them seeming to be more modern, realistic characters than Him and mother— but can't use them, with the only access to the outside world the landline in the kitchen. This becomes a problem.
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mother! (2017) / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
mother! (2017) / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: As the houseguests begin to tear her house apart, mother briefly manages to call 911 before being cut off. By the time the police SWAT team arrives, the situation has already deteriorated into chaos and mother herself almost gets arrested as one of the home invaders. Then the houseguests somehow arm themselves and start shooting back, the cops begin to turn on each other, and a fully militarized conflict begins with mother a forgotten afterthought.
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mother! (2017) / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
mother! (2017) / int_77473d35	comment	Him is a self-absorbed poet who allows humanity to trash His house, making him indirectly responsible for all of the atrocities they commit in the film, and inadvertently causes the death of His son when the hordes accidentally kill and eat him. Even when He saves mother from being beaten, He tries to convince her to forgive the crowd and later rips her heart out to start the cycle anew.
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mother! (2017) / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
mother! (2017) / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Maybe not myths, but mother is apparently both the mother of Christ (i.e. Mary) and Mother Nature herself.
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mother! (2017) / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
mother! (2017) / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Played with and lampshaded. mother (and the audience) has no inkling Woman exists before she suddenly shows up on her doorstep. Him gives her no warning even though Man spent the previous night telling Him his whole life story. (mother asks Him, "Did you know he had a wife?" but receives no answer.) Man even greets Woman with a joking "Nice to meet you!" before grabbing her for an uncomfortably long kiss. References Woman's allegorical identity as Eve, who was literally created in a single day to be Adam's wife at this point in the biblical narrative. Continues to be played with in the film with the absurd number of friends and family who show up for Younger Brother's wake, with mother (and likewise us) consistently kept in the dark about who exactly they are or where they came from. mother herself, as the surreal opening of the movie seems to show Him summoning the house and his wife into existence from a burnt-out husk, with mother waking up already looking for her husband. The first half of the movie ignores this opening, with Him speaking to Man of his marriage to mother and the "months" of work she's done on the house as though we didn't see them both come into existence that morning. This is explained by the ending.
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mother! (2017) / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
mother! (2017) / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: One of mother's escalating humiliations is dealing with a little boy having an "accident" on her floor while waiting for autographs.
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mother! (2017) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
mother! (2017) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mother to Him, just before the end. And of course, the aforementioned Make Me Wanna Shout scene afterwards has mother furiously call everyone (including Him) monsters.
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mother! (2017) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
mother! (2017) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: mother is the physical embodiment of the Earth itself as well as the dutiful wife — and muse — of Him. Throughout the film, mother's sanity began to unravel when Him carelessly allows several people to invade the house to sate his ego. Upon becoming pregnant, waves of Him's rabid followers infiltrate the house, indulging in several degeneracies such as mass murder, slavery, and war. Despite tensions softening after mother gave birth, Him pries her son from her and presents him to the crowd. Being forced to helplessly watch her son get ripped apart and eaten by the hordes, mother tries to kill several of Him's followers only to be overpowered and stripped and beaten relentlessly. Even though she succeeds at wiping out the crowds by setting the house ablaze, the ending reveals mother was one of the many incarnations of Mother Nature, meaning she was condemned to suffer endlessly due to the cyclical nature of creation versus destruction.
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mother! (2017) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
mother! (2017) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Man and Woman seem unable to function without alcohol — Man with his beloved hip flask and Woman with her "special lemonade recipe". It seems to be a trait also shared by most of their friends and family.
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mother! (2017) / int_803e3201	type	Satanic Archetype
mother! (2017) / int_803e3201	comment	Satanic Archetype: Mother becomes one towards the end. Upon seeing more and more people arrive at the house, she becomes increasingly angered with Him for allowing these people into their house, which culminates in her burning the house down in an apocalyptic-style event. She also talks to Woman about the crystallized object that Him keeps in his study, which can be interpreted as the Serpent tempting Eve with the Forbidden Fruit. Her heart becoming blackened towards the end can also be taken as her ultimate fall from grace. Besides mother, Him can also be seen as one. He craves worship and is utterly unconcerned as to how he can acquire it. Additionally as pointed out in this video, Him could be a reference to the Demiurge, a false god who created the physical world, but is not the true creator. mother meets a man in the house during one of her husband's large gatherings, and he offered her the chance to leave Him, but she refuses.
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mother! (2017) / int_82b64343	type	Twisted Eucharist
mother! (2017) / int_82b64343	comment	Twisted Eucharist: By the end of the film, the visitors to the house are all eating from the same flesh sacrificed for them by a religious authority, calling to mind the sacrament of the Eucharist and humanity's role in killing Jesus with our evil. The "evil" part is made clearer considering the flesh being sacrificed is from the author's son, who has his neck snapped and his corpse dismembered.
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mother! (2017) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
mother! (2017) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Potentially EVERYONE.
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mother! (2017) / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
mother! (2017) / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Played with. Man is revealed to be dying of an illness, and reveals he has children, complete with wallet photos he proudly shows to Him and mother. This is a Pet the Dog moment for the otherwise unlikable Man and Woman and makes mother feel guilty about her intentions to kick them out. Subverted, as it ends up not being Man who dies (onscreen, anyway) but his son.
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mother! (2017) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
mother! (2017) / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The names of the characters were never mentioned in the movie. The credits listed Lawrence's and Bardem's character as "mother" and "Him" respectively. (Note that Bardem's character is the only name that is capitalized in the credits.) Everyone else gets a generic title in the credits relating to their role in the story; Ed Harris is "man", Michelle Pfeiffer is "woman", the Gleason brothers are "oldest son" and "youngest brother". Some of the names hint at the religious allegory; for instance Kristen Wiig, who is introduced as Him's publisher, is credited as "herald".
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mother! (2017) / int_8f24ddfd	type	Mineral MacGuffin
mother! (2017) / int_8f24ddfd	comment	Mineral Macguffin: The jewel in Him's study, which Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer's characters accidentally break to Him's consternation. It is later implied to be the heart of the woman he was with before mother, as mother's own heart is ripped out and turned into one as well.
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mother! (2017) / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
mother! (2017) / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Played straight with the baby who feels nothing but hunger, love and pain before his death. Brutally defied with the children in the crowd who are shown eating pieces of him alongside the adults.
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mother! (2017) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
mother! (2017) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The film and its characters are pretty explicitly meant to be allegories of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. Him and mother are God and Mother Nature respectively, while all of the people who Him keeps inviting into the house and trashing the place are meant to represent humans. Mother may also represent Sophia, a personification of Wisdom and a female aspect of God that's been present in Judeo-Christian literature since the Old Testament, and who appears as a feminine counterpart to the Demiurge in Gnosticism. She is also at one point a stand-in for the Virgin Mary.
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mother! (2017) / int_91b5521d	type	Complete Immortality
mother! (2017) / int_91b5521d	comment	Complete Immortality: Him survives the exploding house and turns out to be much older than previously implied. Contrast mother, who turns out to be The Nth Doctor.
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mother! (2017) / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
mother! (2017) / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quiet… Too Quiet: When mother wakes up after giving birth, she notices the sounds of violence from downstairs have completely stopped. It turns out the birth of her child has ended the war among Him's followers. This turns out not to be a good thing.
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mother! (2017) / int_941896b	comment	Shaming the Mob: Mother tearfully begs Him to do this with their guests, as Him is the only person they'll listen to. He refuses. She tries to do it herself after they kill her son. It goes poorly.
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mother! (2017) / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: Very much so early on when mother goes down there and finds the mysterious oil room. It becomes a Chekhov's Gun as well.
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mother! (2017) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Many viewers have raised the question of what, exactly, is in the poem Him writes that everyone likes so much. Obviously trying to portray a life- and world-altering written work on film is a pretty justifiable case of Take Our Word for It, and portraying his manuscript as a single page handwritten on parchment (that gets somehow published as a normal-sized paperback) is an obvious case of intentional surrealism. Speculation still abounds, though, including Moviebob devoting a page to theories about it.
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mother! (2017) / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
mother! (2017) / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Him has a crystal orb in his study which is the only thing left after a fire burned down his house and his first wife in the past.
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mother! (2017) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
mother! (2017) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: The Oldest Son , a.k.a. the murderer, Cain, comes back to the house to retrieve his wallet to find a terrified mother. Rather than attack her, he bemusedly asks, "They left you here all alone?... So you do understand", then leaves peacefully. Foreshadows the ending in which the mother, in a rage over the murder of her child and the indifference of Him, kills all of Him's fans and herself.
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mother! (2017) / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
mother! (2017) / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: Him is an esteemed poet going through a rough patch of writer's block. He gets over it eventually, but the price is steep. Very steep.
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mother! (2017) / int_9c0dc5cd	type	Quick Nip
mother! (2017) / int_9c0dc5cd	comment	Quick Nip: When we meet Man he's constantly smoking and drinking from his trusty hip flask. Implied to partly be to relieve the pain from his unnamed terminal health condition (and possibly to have contributed to it).
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mother! (2017) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
mother! (2017) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: How mother ultimately deals with Him and his followers. Him is the only survivor.
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mother! (2017) / int_9cc1e9ec	type	Unwanted False Faith
mother! (2017) / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: A variation. Him loves being adored by the crowd, but when that adoration somehow turns into war, slavery, mass murder and killing and eating his own son Him appears to be just as horrified as mother is... but not, apparently, horrified enough to lift a finger to stop it, or even to tell them to stop doing it. (Quite likely a Take That! to the Christian God who, in some versions of Christian belief, fell silent after giving the Bible to mankind, doing nothing to stop the subsequent false doctrines and resulting atrocities.)
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mother! (2017) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
mother! (2017) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Man has an injury on his ribs, which Him tries to help cover up. The next day, the Woman—the Man's wife—arrives. God took a piece of Adam's ribs to create Eve. After Mother becomes pregnant, she jokingly makes a remark about getting started on the Apocalypse.
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mother! (2017) / int_9d174dc0	type	Hates Being Alone
mother! (2017) / int_9d174dc0	comment	Hates Being Alone: Him is addicted to being around people. He seems to love everyone he meets, no matter how repulsive they come across to us and to mother — he waxes lyrical about wanting to hear "all of their stories". The one moment he lashes out in open hostility to mother, he calls their isolated house (and marriage) "suffocating".
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mother! (2017) / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
mother! (2017) / int_9dfd7154	comment	The film's take on the Judeo-Christian theology which it addresses via allegory falls apart on the basis of Fridge Logic. To start with, in Aronofsky's view, mother represents Mother Nature and Him is God the Father. Now, "mother nature" is not a biblical concept at all; it's a folkloric concept, dating to 1266 AD, making it less than a thousand years old. Secondly, if Him is God and mother is Earth, if God created the earth, then that would mean the married couple are committing incest and Him is marrying and impregnating his own daughter. However, that last part is consistent with the biblical conception of Jesus.
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mother! (2017) / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
mother! (2017) / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: mother's baby's neck cracking.
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mother! (2017) / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
mother! (2017) / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Mother, who consistently demands it. At one point, she finally makes them do it.
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mother! (2017) / int_a1267c41	type	Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight
mother! (2017) / int_a1267c41	comment	Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Him is defined by this trope. He openly admits to mother he'd much rather talk to people about his writing than actually write.
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mother! (2017) / int_a1a41714	type	Hot God
mother! (2017) / int_a1a41714	comment	Hot God: Javier Bardem as Him. To the point of Mr. Fanservice as he leaps out of bed to begin writing completely in the nude.
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mother! (2017) / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
mother! (2017) / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License – Religion: To a good portion of the audience, regardless of whatever this movie is saying, it makes no damned sense according to even symbolic logic, mostly because the symbols are incoherent and deployed in ways that only make sense according to Word Of God's idiosyncratic interpretation of religion and environmentalism, and falls apart to anyone deeply familiar with it, with either and/or both: Regardless of one's sentiment towards religion, it has very little to do with the debate of global warming and to the extent it does (such as using selective Biblical interpretation to deny climate change science), the film is pretty useless in addressing it, especially since the ending shows that the world of the film has Eternal Recurrence, where a new mother and new house emerge from the previous one's ashes, which is more or less the contrary to climate change activists' warnings of irreversible harm and it affirms denialists' belief that climate change is a matter of "natural cycles" that naturally repair themselves. The film's take on the Judeo-Christian theology which it addresses via allegory falls apart on the basis of Fridge Logic. To start with, in Aronofsky's view, mother represents Mother Nature and Him is God the Father. Now, "mother nature" is not a biblical concept at all; it's a folkloric concept, dating to 1266 AD, making it less than a thousand years old. Secondly, if Him is God and mother is Earth, if God created the earth, then that would mean the married couple are committing incest and Him is marrying and impregnating his own daughter. However, that last part is consistent with the biblical conception of Jesus. The film implies that the baby is Jesus, and the baby getting eaten by people is meant as a Take That! about how Humans Are Bastards. The problem is that Jesus intended to and willingly chose to sacrifice himself for humanity, his death happened while he was an adult, and after a day and a half he was resurrected.
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mother! (2017) / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
mother! (2017) / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Him to mother right after she flicks on his lighter and right before she drops it next to the punctured basement oil tank, creating an inferno that obliterates the house.
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mother! (2017) / int_a6baa3a7	type	Muse Abuse
mother! (2017) / int_a6baa3a7	comment	Muse Abuse: Him's publisher refers to mother as Him's "inspiration". His Writer's Block comes to an end after they make love, and from what little we see, his new poem is directly inspired by his relationship with her and her role in bringing the house and its surroundings back to life. This doesn't stop Him from consistently treating her as, essentially, the least important person in his life — prioritizing her after his publisher, the press and any random stranger who says they admire his work. This eventually has consequences.
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mother! (2017) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
mother! (2017) / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Woman never gets any call out for her sociopathic and crass comments on Mother. It's not even known if she was in the crowd of people who were burned alive when Mother finally destroyed the house. Him as well considering he simply resets everything anew. Subverted with Him's followers until they ate Mother's baby and she finally snapped and destroys them with the fire.
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mother! (2017) / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
mother! (2017) / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: When the mob turns on mother they immediately start in with random sexualized, misogynistic insults that have nothing to do with the situation (like "cocktease").
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mother! (2017) / int_adbbb5c5	type	Writers Suck
mother! (2017) / int_adbbb5c5	comment	Writers Suck: Him's profession is as a poet, and his narcissism, hunger for praise and casual neglect of his marriage all seem to be tied to his art. May double as Self-Deprecation on Darren Aronofsky's part, especially considering he was dating the actress who plays mother in Real Life around the time of the film's production and release.
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mother! (2017) / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
mother! (2017) / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Mother is eventually driven to this.
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mother! (2017) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
mother! (2017) / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Him and mother at the beginning of the film. Mother refuses to acknowledge it openly until after the Woman picks up on it and humiliates her over it. Very much averted by Man and Woman despite their age compared to Him and mother, a fact Woman gleefully holds over mother's head.
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mother! (2017) / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
mother! (2017) / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are: Him and mother, for most of the movie. him writes the Bible, while the mother just...is until she goes absolutely nuts.
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mother! (2017) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
mother! (2017) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The entire film is essentially a scathing criticism of Christianity, and organized religion in general. It can also be seen as a vicious satire of how humans have treated the environment. Society's treatment of women and the feminine aspects of the divine in general are also put on display.
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mother! (2017) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
mother! (2017) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Literally everybody in the movie keeps pushing mother, and pushing, and pushing...
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mother! (2017) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
mother! (2017) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Mother repeatedly accuses Him of this, accurately. The last thing she tells him before burning down the house: "You never loved me. You just loved how much I loved you."
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mother! (2017) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
mother! (2017) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike:
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mother! (2017) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
mother! (2017) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: It's a Darren Aronofsky film. The trailer doesn't tell you anything about the plot. Even the promotional posters look vague, such as the posters of Jennifer Lawrence◊ holding a bloody heart which seems to be cut out from her chest and Javier Bardem◊ holding an orb with an image of a baby while sitting in the flames of screaming faces.
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mother! (2017) / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
mother! (2017) / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: Mother prepares a lavish feast for Him — while nine months pregnant — to celebrate the success of his new book. Him expresses his awe at her effort, and we're treated to a lingering view of the spread, but then Him's guests arrive, and he unhesitatingly lets them treat it like a convenient buffet. (This is essentially the whole movie in microcosm.)
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mother! (2017) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
mother! (2017) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Several, courtesy of Mother. Mother does this halfway through the third act, in particular with the taking and killing of her infant son. When Him tries to convince her to forgive the people for killing their child, she lets out one so powerful in fury that it breaks the house foundations, cementing her as a status of Mother Nature.
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mother! (2017) / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
mother! (2017) / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: What happens to mother's baby when he's being passed around by the crowd.
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mother! (2017) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
mother! (2017) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Jennifer Lawrence's breasts are briefly visible when her character is attacked by a mob and they try to rip off her clothes. There's nothing sexy about the scene.
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mother! (2017) / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
mother! (2017) / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: There are two. The baby that mother conceives with Him is an obvious stand in for Christ coming down from his birth to his killing and subsequent cannibalization by Him's followers . Mother can be seen as a representation of many different aspects such as Mother Nature, the Virgin Mary, and later a Satanic Archetype. The film makes a point in how mother continually gives and gives, culminating in her willingly giving her heart to Him so that he could start again. She is even carried by Him in a fashion similar to how the Virgin Mary is said to have held Jesus when he was removed from the cross.
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mother! (2017) / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
mother! (2017) / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Him's brilliance as a writer, which everyone is in awe of — including mother, even when she's otherwise upset with Him — never gets shared with the audience. This plays into how the audience likely finds him less likable or sympathetic than everyone onscreen seems to. His eulogy for Younger Brother, which moves everyone present to tears, is a fairly standard Always with You speech (though to be fair in that moment he's improvising, and deep in the throes of a months-long Writer's Block). In ordinary conversation he's hardly particularly eloquent or persuasive — most notably in his total failure to talk down Oldest Son or mother from violence.
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mother! (2017) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
mother! (2017) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mother stabs several people and then burns down her house and everybody in it in revenge for them killing and eating her newborn son.
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mother! (2017) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
mother! (2017) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Mother repeatedly warns her unwanted guests the kitchen sink won't hold their weight when they lean or sit on it. They ignore her and taunt her by intentionally bouncing up and down on it, at which point it breaks off and begins to flood the house, bringing their party to an end. A reference to the Great Flood and/or climate change.
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mother! (2017) / int_cfb5664f	type	Hair-Trigger Sound Effect
mother! (2017) / int_cfb5664f	comment	Hair-Trigger Sound Effect: Played with in a subtle, unnerving way. Every scene in which the point of view is within Him's study, there is a soft, chime-like tone. There are three exceptions: first, when the Man and Woman break the crystal, the chime momentarily disappears; second, the chime does not sound when the mother is giving birth; and third, the same chime sounds as the exclamation point is drawn during the title card.
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mother! (2017) / int_d02a7d70	type	Divine Race Lift
mother! (2017) / int_d02a7d70	comment	Divine Race Lift: Javier Bardem, a Spaniard (with a noticeable accent), inserts a deliberate otherness into Him, in contrast to the americans playing the other characters even if they're all caucasian.
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mother! (2017) / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
mother! (2017) / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Him is immediately struck by inspiration for his next poem after he and mother make love. As in the Trope Namer, he doesn't bother to put on clothes before running to write it down.
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mother! (2017) / int_d19dc823	type	The Gods Must Be Lazy
mother! (2017) / int_d19dc823	comment	The Gods Must Be Lazy: Him is so eager to please the strangers that come to the house that he doesn't stop then from totally trashing the place, and even killing and devouring his newborn son, all while completely disregarding mother's protests. And when mother finally snaps and burns down the house and everybody in it, Him simply tears her heart out and starts over.
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mother! (2017) / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
mother! (2017) / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": When Man and Woman break Him's jewel and start copiously apologizing and asking if they can pay for another one, Him silences them both with a loud "QUIET!" — easily the angriest we've seen him thus far in the movie.
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mother! (2017) / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
mother! (2017) / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Him's study, which he doesn't like people going into unsupervised, and the pretty crystal on display within. A direct reference to the Trope Namer from the Bible.
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mother! (2017) / int_d49ce4f8	type	Protect This House
mother! (2017) / int_d49ce4f8	comment	Protect This House: Subverted. Despite this being his traditional role as a man, and despite mother's repeated pleading, Him not only fails but refuses to do this.
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mother! (2017) / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
mother! (2017) / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: The Man is dying of an unnamed illness, and wanted to meet his literary idol (Him) before he died. He keeps pushing the specific terms of his request, however — from staying the night to him and his wife staying indefinitely to hosting his son's wake — with catastrophic results.
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mother! (2017) / int_d8f3dc8	comment	Eternal Recurrence: The repeated destruction and re-creation of Him and mother's house, representing the cyclical nature of the universe.
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mother! (2017) / int_dca44146	comment	Taking Advantage of Generosity: What the strangers barging into Him and mother 's house do, based on Him's rationale that everyone is welcome to their house, ultimately leading to the tragic conclusion.
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mother! (2017) / int_dcd13ea5	comment	Always with You: Him employs this trope to comfort the Man and Woman after the Younger Brother's death. This backfires when Him's followers take it literally and decide to butcher and eat his son after they kill him, so the baby will always be "inside" them.
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mother! (2017) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Him's publisher (played by Kristen Wiig, credited as "herald") goes in a matter of a few eventful hours from a chipper media flack organizing his autograph line to brutally executing prisoners in his name.
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mother! (2017) / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: To the Bible, both New and Old Testaments. Him is the God Yahweh, and mother is Anthropomorphic Personification Mother Nature. Their house is Earth/the Garden of Eden, which mother declared at the beginning of the film would be made into a Paradise. Man and Woman are Adam and Eve, the first two people to intrude into the house, and their two sons are Cain and Abel (one son ends up killing the other one). Man and Woman break Him's crystal, and like the episode of the forbidden fruit, are ejected out of the House for it. Mother breaks the House's plumbing and ejects the increasing crowds of people in her house with a flood of water—much like Noah's flood. Mother's Baby is Jesus, who is literally cannibalized as a morbid reflection of the Eucharist and the Crucifixion. Mother ends by destroying the House with in a torrent of fire, much like the Apocalypse will destroy the world.
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mother! (2017) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Him is a self-absorbed poet who allows humanity to trash His house, making him indirectly responsible for all of the atrocities they commit in the film, and inadvertently causes the death of His son when the hordes accidentally kill and eat him. Even when He saves mother from being beaten, He tries to convince her to forgive the crowd and later rips her heart out to start the cycle anew. In an overly environmental film, humanity proves once again capable of committing horrible acts. Upon becoming fans of Him, they vandalize the house, wage wars over interpretations of his work, massacre crowds, distribute slaves through trading, and grisly eat mother's baby son in an ultimate act of depravity after accidentally killing him.
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mother! (2017) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Every single character in the movie aside from mother and Him is deeply unpleasant to a downright sociopathic level, though special mention goes Michelle Pfeiffer's character. Him tries so hard to be a Nice Guy that he eventually warps around to this.
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mother! (2017) / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: During the outbreak of warfare inside the house a handful of people — including one of the invading soldiers and a civilian woman literally credited as "Good Samaritan" — take pity on mother and try to help her, only to be brutally killed by the others as soon as they take their attention from the battle.
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mother! (2017) / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: The sons of Man and Woman. The oldest son even kills his younger brother, and gets a bloody mark on his forehead for his effort.
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mother! (2017) / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: mother and her baby both appear to be this, before it's inverted and revealed that one of the actual main messages is that the earth is too good for its horrible inhabitants.
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mother! (2017) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: A virtue preached by Him, when he proclaims his eulogy is not just for the Younger Brother but also the Oldest Son who murdered him, and also practiced by Him with his absurd tolerance of strangers mistreating his home and his wife. Culminates with Him asking mother to forgive the houseguests even after they killed and ate her son. She declines.
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mother! (2017) / int_f76b8969	comment	Him is the God Yahweh, and mother is Anthropomorphic Personification Mother Nature. Their house is Earth/the Garden of Eden, which mother declared at the beginning of the film would be made into a Paradise.
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mother! (2017) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Mother. She more or less is a nice and decent person who, while reluctant, does go on with Him's apparent hospitality to the people around them. When they keep endlessly pushing her and cause the death of her baby, she shows no mercy.
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