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* WholePlotReference: [[spoiler:To the bible, both New and Old Testaments.]]
** [[spoiler:Him is the God Yahweh, and Mother is a amalgamation of the Virgin Mary and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Nature itself. Their house is Earth/the Garden of Eden, whom Mother declared at the beginning of the film will be made into a Paradise]].
** [[spoiler: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).]]
** [[spoiler:Man and Woman breaks Him's crystal, and like the episode of the forbidden fruit, are ejected out of the House for it.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler:Mother's Baby is Jesus, and who is literally cannibalized as a morbid reflection of the Eucharist.]]
** [[spoiler:Mother ends by destroying the House with in a torrent of fire, much like the Apocalypse will destroy the world.]]
** [[spoiler:Him is the God Yahweh, and Mother is a amalgamation of the Virgin Mary and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Nature itself. Their house is Earth/the Garden of Eden, whom Mother declared at the beginning of the film will be made into a Paradise]].
** [[spoiler: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).]]
** [[spoiler:Man and Woman breaks Him's crystal, and like the episode of the forbidden fruit, are ejected out of the House for it.]]
** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler:Mother's Baby is Jesus, and who is literally cannibalized as a morbid reflection of the Eucharist.]]
** [[spoiler:Mother ends by destroying the House with in a torrent of fire, much like the Apocalypse will destroy the world.]]
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* ImprovisedWeapon: [[spoiler: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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* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: [[spoiler: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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* BodyToJewel: [[spoiler: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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* CountryMatters: [[spoiler: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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* MineralMacguffin: The jewel in Him's study, [[spoiler: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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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: If you're familiar with the first few books of TheBible, you'll know exactly what Aronofsky is getting at.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: If you're familiar with the first few books of TheBible, you'll know exactly what Aronofsky is getting at.
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* FlatCharacter: A common criticism of the film, where [[spoiler: the religious and environmental analogies squeeze out any room for character development.]] In fact, the eponymous character is defined entirely by her single-minded devotion to Him.
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* FanDisservice: [[spoiler: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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* CainAndAbel: The sons of Man and Woman. [[spoiler:The oldest son even kills his younger brother.]]
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* DissonantSerenity: '''''HIM.''''' Full stop.
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* WouldHurtAChild: [spoiler: Mother's offspring is gutted and devoured by the hordes of strangers in the house]].
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* CreativeSterility: Him is an esteemed poet going through a rough patch of it. [[spoiler: He gets over it eventually, but the price is steep. [[DownerEnding Very steep.]]]]
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Mother spends the entire duration of the movie barefoot.
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* {{Jerkass}}: ''Every single character in the movie'' aside from Mother and Him is deeply unpleasant to a downright sociopathic level, though special mention goes Creator/MichellePfeiffer's character. [[spoiler: Him tries so hard to be a NiceGuy that he eventually warps around to this.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Not only does Mother's child get brutally killed, his killers then proceed to partake in his flesh.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Not only does Mother's child get brutally killed, his killers then proceed to partake in his flesh.]]
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* DownerEnding: And ''how''. [[spoiler: 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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* MayDecemberRomance: Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/JavierBardem's characters who are also the main couple. [[spoiler:It's justified because Lawrence's character is Bardem's second wife after his first wife passed away. Ed Harris' lampshaded this when he thought that Lawrence's character is Bardem's daughter]].
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* NoNameGiven: 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.
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'''''Mother''''', stylized as '''''mother!''''' is a 2017 [[PsychologicalHorror horror]] film by Creator/DarrenAronofsky. It stars Creator/JavierBardem, Creator/JenniferLawrence, Creator/EdHarris, and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, among others. Due to Aronofsky's insistence on keeping the project tightly under wraps, not much is known about the plot or characters--even the character's ''names'' are unknown.
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* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Bardem's character had 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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* DarkerAndEdgier: According to [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/darren-aronofsky-mother.html early reports]], the film is possibly Aronofsky's darkest film to date. [[Film/{{Pi}} Given]] [[Literature/RequiemForADream his]] [[Film/BlackSwan filmography]], that's a ''very'' bold statement.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: According to [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/darren-aronofsky-mother.html early reports]], the film is possibly Aronofsky's darkest and most controversial film to date.date, with author [[https://twitter.com/MyloCarbia/status/903250074368692224 Mylo Carbia]] even comparing it's impact to ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. [[Film/{{Pi}} Given]] [[Literature/RequiemForADream his]] [[Film/BlackSwan filmography]], that's a ''very'' bold statement.
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->''"All I'm trying to do is bring life into this house! Open the door to new people, new ideas!"''
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->''"All I'm trying to do is bring life into this house! Open the door to new people, new ideas!"''
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->'''''"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE! GET OUT!"'''''
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'''''Mother''''', stylized as '''''mother!''''' is a 2017 [[PsychologicalHorror horror]] film by Creator/DarrenAronofsky. It stars Creator/JavierBardem, Creator/JenniferLawrence, Creator/EdHarris, and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, among others. Due to Aronofsky's insistence on keeping the project tightly under wraps, not much is known about the plot or characters--even the characters character's ''names'' are unknown.
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Bardem and Lawrence are a HappilyMarried couple, living in a large country house. However, their idyllic existence is interrupted by mysterious visitors (Harris and Pfeiffer), who invade their house. Lawrences character quickly figures out that something's not right, [[FromBadToWorse and then things get bad]].
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Bardem and Lawrence are a HappilyMarried couple, living in a large country house. However, their idyllic existence is interrupted by mysterious visitors (Harris and Pfeiffer), who invade their house. Lawrences Lawrence's character quickly figures out that something's not right, [[FromBadToWorse and then things get bad]].
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* MindScrew: 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 [[http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mother-poster.jpeg Jennifer Lawrence]], holding a bloody heart which seems to be cut out from her chest and [[http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/dgmxhskuaaaleey.jpg Javier Bardem]], holding an orb with an image of a baby while sitting in the flames of screaming faces.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Creator/JenniferLawrence and Creator/JavierBardem's characters who are also the main couple. A meta one also started on set between Aronofsky and Lawrence.
* SurrealHorror: Given [[Creator/DarrenAronofsky whose directing it]] this is to be expected.
* BlondesAreEvil: Creator/MichellePfeiffer's character..maybe. We don't know at this point really.
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'''''Mother''''', stylized as '''''mother!''''' is a 2017 [[PsychologicalHorror horror]]/[[PsycologicalThriller thriller]] horror]] film by Creator/DarrenAronofsky. It stars Creator/JavierBardem, Creator/JenniferLawrence, Creator/EdHarris, and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, among others. Due to Aronofsky's insistence on keeping the project tightly under wraps, not much is known about the plot or characters--even the characters ''names'' are unknown.
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'''''Mother''''', stylized as '''''mother!''''' is a 2017 [[PsychologicalHorror horror]]/[[PsycologicalThriller thriller]] film by Creator/DarrenAronofsky. It stars Creator/JavierBardem, Creator/JenniferLawrence, Creator/EdHarris, and Creator/MichellePfeiffer, among others. Due to Aronofsky's insistence on keeping the project tightly under wraps, not much is known about the plot or characters--even the characters ''names'' are unknown.
Bardem and Lawrence are a HappilyMarried couple, living in a large country house. However, their idyllic existence is interrupted by mysterious visitors (Harris and Pfeiffer), who invade their house. Lawrences character quickly figures out that something's not right, [[FromBadToWorse and then things get bad]].
!Tropes present in mother!
'''DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS FILM, EXPECT UNMARKED SPOILERS.
*AmbiguouslyEvil: Creator/JavierBardem's character. On one hand, the trailer has him waxing poetic about his wife. On the other, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied he's involved with Harris' and Pfeiffers characters]].
Bardem and Lawrence are a HappilyMarried couple, living in a large country house. However, their idyllic existence is interrupted by mysterious visitors (Harris and Pfeiffer), who invade their house. Lawrences character quickly figures out that something's not right, [[FromBadToWorse and then things get bad]].
!Tropes present in mother!
'''DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS FILM, EXPECT UNMARKED SPOILERS.
*AmbiguouslyEvil: Creator/JavierBardem's character. On one hand, the trailer has him waxing poetic about his wife. On the other, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied he's involved with Harris' and Pfeiffers characters]].
