History Film / Mother2017

* MakeMeWannaShout: Mother's final SkywardScream when she [[spoiler:refuses to forgive her son's murderers]] is loud enough to rock the house's foundation, cracking the floor wide open. Reflects mother's nature as the GeniusLoci to her house. [[spoiler:And the beginning of the apocalypse, with the crack leading to the basement the now-open gates of hell.]]

** [[spoiler:And of course, the aforementioned MakeMeWannaShout scene afterwards has mother ''furiously'' call everyone (including Him) monsters.]]

** The film's take on the Judeo-Christian theology which it addresses via allegory falls apart on the basis of FridgeLogic. To start with, in Aronofsky's view, [[spoiler: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.]]

* BrokenAesop: Darren Aronofsky [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/darren-aronofsky-says-mother-is-about-climate-change-but-hes-wrong has stated in interviews]] that the film is a parable for environmentalism and climate change. The problem is that [[spoiler:the ending's theme of EternalRecurrence, 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]].
** [[spoiler: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.]]