This film is every introverts' worse nightmare. I had anxiety the entire time.

Moral of the Story: Don't let people inside ur house

“I love you.” “You never loved me. You love how much I love you.” That is so deep.

the breaking point for me was when those people sitting on the sink started bouncing then broke it like idk why that just really got me going internally like almost relating in a metaphorical way to the feeling of people completely & deliberately crossing your boundaries & invading your personal space & not being listened to at all

The scary part is that people actually behave like this. Edit: As someone said in the replies, these people are acting like obsessed fans or stalkers.

Why isn’t this movie just called “the Bible: scary version”

She said “I guess I’ll get ready for the apocalypse” once he began to write again Everything before she got pregnant was the Old Testament and when she woke up pregnant that began the New Testament

Jennifer Lawrence was perfect for this role. She had a huge impact on how incredible this film turned out. The director is also brilliant.

It also makes Sense when Mother says: This is my house! And everyone just laughs at her and ignores her like: Yeah, sure. "Your" house.

This film is what anxiety feels like

Extroverts: The people are so nice! They take care of my things and are my best friends! What an introvert sees:

I now totally understand. “Mother” is a symbolical movie. I liked it. Mother (Earth): “I gave you everything”

You feel for Jennifer’s character from start to finish!!

I actually cried when they killed her baby, it was a mixture of sadness and stress/anxiety that build up during the film, and that scene broke me. I was so frustrated during the whole movie...... i liked it?

If you watch the movie without knowing the behind story it is sooo weird

I had so much anxiety and helplessness watching this movie. This reminded me a lot of my relationship with a narcissist, being dependent on him and madly in love, while his selfishness and need for attention creates drama and stress.

This is one of the few movies that physically made me extremely, viscerally stressed while watching, I felt like I was in the house as it devolved into chaos

The two people who kept sitting on sink and then broke it casusing a flood inside house is a refrence to the great flood and a reset. Thats why everybody left.

Who is here after mother decides to throw Corona virus at us! She is tired of our bullshit!

The whole movie just feels like a fever dream in a good way

Other points I noticed, just thoughts: • When that couple breaks the sink, causing water to spill everywhere and Him tells all of the people from the wake to leave, this represents the Flood from Noah’s ark. Then when his “fans” return later in the movie with no explanation, these are the people who survived the “flood”, hence why characters like Man and Woman don’t come back. • The House was earth and Him’s Office was Paradise, which is why when Man and Woman Break the crystal thing Him gets them out and blocks the doors, kicking them out of “paradise”. • The Crystal, is both Mother Earth’s love and the forbidden fruit. The first sin. Hence why immediately after breaking it, Man and Woman have sex. • When the baby is killed, and eaten (communion) and Mother begins killing people, this may represent nature’s natural disasters. People attacking Mother may represent how humans ignore nature’s signs, disasters, global warming, etc. and instead keep damaging it. (After the fans attack mother and kill the baby, when him says “we have to forgive them, they may change now” is God’s hope that humanity might change after Jesus died for their sins. He has hope that they have learned as both mother and him hear their crying whispers.) Which- we don’t learn- so mother does blow up the house, this is the Apocalypse, where Him “God” has a chance to start again. Unfortunately, humans don’t seem to learn ever... so every ending might end the same, Sorry for Him 😂

I want to take mother nature out for a drink and let her know how cool she is.

This was the first movie that scared me not just mentally, but physically. Just seeing the people pouring in and their antics getting worse and worse gave me real raw anger, a sickening appalled feeling and anxiety. I've seen Gummo, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, The Green Inferno and those failed to spook me to the bone as much as this film did. That's how you know you found an amazing film, when you get genuine emotion out of it. Huge props to the directors!!

Dear stranger whoever reads this: may your mother live over 100 years..

I wanted her to leave him about half way through the movie and just kept saying leave him 😂😂

I don't think he loved her. Like mother said, he was in love with the thought of being in love. He only wanted to be loved.

Any input on that scene where she flushes what seems to be a heart down the toilet?

Mother was so disturbing and painful to watch but it was one of the most emotionally rich films I’ve ever watched.

This movie made me sick of my stomach with all those people invading the house and that crazy weird husband gave me a really bad vibe.

Just added information. The room which he boarded up represents the garden of eden so when man and woman broke the crystal heart, he bans them from entering it again.

This is an absolute masterpiece. You can see the fatigue in her eyes at the very end. Mother earth has given her everything and humanity destroyed it; her last resort was to completely annihilate what has caused her pain in the most destructive way possible - eliminating herself.

The only thing I haven’t heard explained is the red spot. When “Cain” kills “Abel” the spot where his head hit remains after the blood is cleaned up. What is the symbolism of this? I’ve thought maybe hell/outer darkness. But that doesn’t make sense with the Cain and Abel story.

The reason he was only able to write after the birth because the new testament was written after Jesus was conceived.

This movie gave me a major panic attack… crazy edit: This movie brought something out in me that I didn’t know affected me. It’s sounds weird but this is probably the first movie that genuinely scares me just because stuff like this can happen. People are psycho!

He is my favorite director, Requiem For a Dream and mother! are both 10/10. He makes movies that are VERY heavy and not for everyone but they're so brilliant!

Watched this movie in theaters, watched half the audience walk out and I look over to my buddy and I whispered, "I don't think they got the metaphor.". I'm glad we all stuck it out because the discussion between all of us afterwards was a good one.

if i was mother, as soon as people started coming in, i’d run the other way. this movie has triggered my anxiety like no other movie has ever.

Aranovsky clearly doesn't like religion. But he understands it, perfectly.

As a person struggling with anxiety, I honestly felt more anger than fear, when her baby's neck broke, I cussed at them so hard, I got a warning from my landlord and lost my voice for 3 days

The first time I saw this movie I had no clue what happened. Afterwards I saw this video among many others and realized how deep this movie actually is. This movie didn’t do too well with the critics but it is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen

Ending Explained: Humans are terrible The End.

When the man and woman repeatedly sat on the sink/counter, I nearly had a panic attack

The amount of emotions this movie put me through is astounding. This is some of the best screenplay I've ever experienced

The fact that she was so adamant about never doing a movie like this ever again says everything.

You have forgotten the "Flood", when Mother chases all people out of her house for the first time and than she goes to the basement and turns the water off, so she could clean the house.

In the bible yellow represents purification. I think that's why she was drinking the elixir whenever she was in pain. She was trying to purify earth when it was being damaged.

This movie really conveys the dark nature of humanity. I had to see it twice to appreciate the details without feeling so frustrated. What I like about this movie, is that helps to really surrender, that we are a conflict of good and evil by nature and we shouldn’t be so shocked by what happens in this world. Let’s be happy anyways!

I interpreted this movie in a completely different and easier way. While I watched this movie, mother reminded me a lot of myself and a relationship I had. I would do anything to make him happy, I loved him immensely. I would give everything to him and it was never enough. I often felt like my heart was being stripped way from my body just like that scene in the movie. So to me, this movie represents excessive love and how sometimes you give everything to someone and it's still not enough.

The part that really got me was when the brother who murdered his sibling (allegory for Cain) came back and was just like "He left you here all alone... You do understand" And walked out the back door saying "good luck"

NOTE: Don't Forget the Part When the Man is Led by the Woman upstairs and they Break the Crystal! That was Eve taking a bite of the Apple (or the symbolism of doing a something Forbidden). And notice after that scene, everything goes Down-Hill from that moment. Great analysis. Loved the Movie.

I was 16 when I first watched this and I was traumatized. I feel like a drama queen for saying that but this movie really f*cked me up. For a good week too.

I was literally speechless when I saw this movie for the 1st time

This movie sure was a special kind of horror. It left me with a bad feeling to my stomach. I can‘t even really describe it. Just seeing these people acting that rude and disrespectful, invading mothers life...it made me feel on edge and still does. Since I am neither religious nor did I ever read the bible, I didn‘t recognise all the obvious parallels to the bible. Makes sense though. Honestly I like to interpret it a bit less religious for myself, because the theme of taking until theres nothing left got me good.

this film made me hate people more than i already do. it was truly just wild.

i watched this movie with my friends last night and after watching the movie we spent 3 hours discussing its metaphor in biblical context. so glad to find this movie and never regret watching it. i hope they make more movies like this. this movie is so underrated.

probably one of THE BEST films i have seen in a loonng time, i loved every part of it, including the fact that my foot wouldnt stop shaking and how stressful the whole movie was, very beautiful and i cried at the end by how powerful it was, very touching and yes, humans are terrible, disgusting and dont appreciate mother nature until she has had enough and strikes back. we must do better

And Him said, “we have to forgive them.” After the baby died. God’s word. 😭

When I first watched this movie I felt so much anxiety and anger.

This can be called: the introvert and the extrovert

It’s almost like Javier never actually plays a person. He always ends up playing a force, of sorts. Something bigger. Dude must be really good

Just finished it... ...I think I need some air...

One of the saddest small things in the movie is when she's trying to find a safe place to give birth one of the soldiers actually pays attention to her (which if you notice nobody around her does) and he shields her with his body and wants to help her and then his head gets brutally blown away. I think he represents all the environmentalist people who want to patch up the ecosystems, save species, fight for cleaner future and all that but are helpless against the horde of ignorance. Then she wants to leave trough the door which might mean space exploration but he insists on keeping her in the house.

That ain't Him, that's my neighbor RayRay. He's always doing stuff like that.

this movie shook me to the core, i felt for jennifer’s character so hard especially at the end

Movie was an acid trip..but once I read meaning... it's still an acid trip

Alot of people talk about how "sick" and " twisted" the movie is especially with the baby being killed and eaten, but what they fail to realize is that literally EVERYTHING in the movie is an Allegory. The baby being killed was Jesus's crucifixion and him being eaten was "The Last Supper". Although it can be gruesome, this movie is unquestionably Brilliant!!!

Aside from the themes involved, the third act played out like the kind of nightmares I have every few weeks or so (I have a bad case of nightmare disorder). It's a main part of why I love this movie so much. Very rarely are nightmares recreated so well on screen.

I always thought this movie could be a representation of the idolisation of false gods or something. Like how the husband writes poetry and eventually builds up on his fan base and lets them all in when he succeeds. His fans adore him so much that they wish to have a piece of him within them, hence the baby eating scene. It’s a good take on say when a popular celebrity has a romantic relationship and some fans are okay with it and others turn feral and hateful. Like the wife of the first man that intrudes on the home, there’s a picture of the poet in her bag, so that could relate back to her having some sort of obsession. I think Jennifer Lawrence is meant to represent that significant other that drowns in the pressures and exclusion of being with someone so famous. But there’s definitely religious aspects also so I will always have an open mind when it comes to this movie.

I think also a lot of people missed the subtle moment where all the “guests” are back at the house for the funeral and Michelle Pfeiffer’s character toasts to the husband for his hospitality and not mother. If we are going down the path of the film being an allegory for the creation story then this makes sense as it’s often said the creator was the only one who made everything.

I loved how there wasn't a soundtrack/score for this movie. I feel like it helped set the tone for the movie and did a great job of building up tension. It's hard to explain, but take the scene with the baby being killed and eaten as an example. Most movies would use some generic orchestral music playing in the background and then resort to a musical jump scare when it showed the baby's eaten body to try to "scare" the audience. Instead though, no music was played and it made that scene, as well as the rest of the movie, creepy/disturbing. I think it also helps to make the movie more open to interpretation when you don't have music trying to tell the viewer when a scene is scary, sad, happy etc.

First time I watched this movie was on my first ever solo trip abroad...to say that plane ride was intense is an understatement!

After watching this with my friends. One of them was traumatized by the baby scene. My other friend just watched our reactions. Me I was shocked but I also was curious about the ending.

Not the entire house is the Garden of Eden, the office is, you can see that because when they break the gem(the forbidden fruit) they're not allowed back there again The house seems like all dimensions, actually, right before Cain and Abel arrive you can see Him going up the stairs alone(heaven), in the middle of the house you have their room and the office(garden of eden), and then Earth, where most of the people stay, then the basement is hell, especially since it appears after the blood of Abel(the first sin) shows the door there The end is Apocalypse, i think

It was the most anxiety inducing thing. I was shaking and almost walked out.

Thank you so much for explaining. I literally didn’t get any of that and now that you’ve said it my perspective has changed entirely. If it weren’t so disturbing I’d want to rewatch!

This movie makes you feel like mother herself, you feel her pain.

Jennifer Lawrence's best ever and hardest performance imho

I walked into this blind, so the whole time, I thought Him was a literal author, and it was showing how shitty he treated his inspiration, his muse, his creative self. And it was in treating her like crap that he was blocked. Only when he showed her love and attention to did new life, new writing, come into being. Then, towards the end, when everyone was clamoring for him, I was taking that to be his ideas begging for his attention, just as she was. It was when the editor was shooting people that I thought for sure that was the intention - killing ideas that won't sell. Or suddenly there being a prison in the house - all those ideas needing to be locked away, to focus on others. Lol, totally missed the Garden of Eden, God, Mother Nature, Great Flood symbolism. My theory went completely off the rails at the end anyway, with, ugh, the baby literally being broken and eaten. I honestly thought that once he was born, this new creation, that all the people would just disappear. Lol, I need to go back and watch it again.

When watching this I literally assumed she was either in hell or having a nightmare as the house trashing scene would qualify as my personal hell/nightmare 100%

As always, whenever I have questions about a movie, I always type in your name and am never disappointed! Thank you for your clear, concise, well thought out and well written/supported movie explanations. Not to mention, we have similar tastes in movies etc so I can’t help, but find myself nodding re: your take on the film in question. Keep up the great work!!

We need "Mother 2: The revenge"

I understand all the biblical references...but all those strangers barging in and making themselves at home pissed me off so much! Like who the hell did they think they were?? It all played out like a bad dream, all the events happening in the blink of an eye and the feeling of confusion and helplessness...

I felt the need to rewatch this movie after I saw a documentary about the Albigenses (Cathars), because I was never comfortable about the idea that mother was mother nature, so rewatched it considering the idea that mother is the holly spirit, and for me it made much more sense, the final reunion with the pregnancy, father, son and the holy spirit, also the Cathars had the idea of 2 gods, one evil who created matter, and a good one who created the spirit or soul as you wish.

I just watched this movie for the first time and I cried. As a child of an avoidant mother I get this masterpiece from a totally different perspective and felt every moment of it

Did I just go to church

I would have never thought this movie would be so deep from the trailers.

I remember watching this with a friend and we were both expecting a horror-ish kinda movie and funny enough, we were preparing for final exams, religion being one of them so we were both so confused near the end and just went "....is this a bible metaphore?" "...i think it is"

The ending where they took the baby...I felt like I was going down a roller coaster for eternity...my stomach dropped and laid there😩

this movie is like a bad dream...literally like you fell asleep and the movie is what you are dreaming..

This movie is ONE GIANT BIBLICAL REFERENCE. I heard that before watching and everything automatically clicked for me while watching the movie. While I was engaged the entire time, the whole thing seemed a tad bit too pretentious for it's own good. I actually liked it the more I talked about it. I had to wait a whole day just to put a review up. Just a crazy experience.

The yellow potion had me stumped. I zoomed in on the bottle and there is a number on it, if you turn it upside down. 6901 in numerology correlates to an understanding of human psychology. When mother nature is confused by human's illogical actions she has an attack, and takes the potion to help her understand.

Visual representation of the last few months in the U.S

Well, Michelle Pfeiffer did tell her a couple of times "oh... You really love him" as in you're screwed

Oh and when Adam and Eve broke the previous heart, it was the original sin when god prevented men from paradise (his study room)

Honestly I’d grab a shotgun if someone completely random just up and barged into my house

Love how some introverts think us extroverts don't have our own personal space nor value it lel. This movie, as an extrovert, gave me so much rage and anxiety. How about we don't stereotype people. We're all individuals.

literally such a scary movie in such a different way.

I literally just finished watching this and I was so confused I came straight here--

This movie was handed to the writer by a higher being. Out of this world .

Many years later now, Jennifer Lawrence actually said she had a mental sort of breakdown filming this. She said she lost herself in fame instead of being an actress. There is a great film called causeway she stars in, came out in 2022. Its a bit sad but incredibly touching. She went back to her real self and her acting. The sh** thing is, it came out in theater however now its on fucking Appletv.... make sense? Nope.