Mother! My interpretation of the movie and its value.

Aronofsky’s ‘Mother!’ is a magnificent biblical allegory, that is true. But also a call to rethinking the constitutive duality of human psyche, which tends to be represented as the tension between ego/otherness, activity/passivity, domination/submission, self-control/letting-go, pride/humility. Under all of these masks, or characters, there is something unsolved of our nature and, more than distinguishing or making dichotomies to characterize these comportments –by accepting these two poles in each set-, perhaps the calling is to see an opening to reach out and solve them by recurring to the notion of motherhood.

A mother is always caring, appreciates vulnerability, seizes the invisibility of bearing and, above all, a mother assumes the necessity for being more than egos: being singular in the plurality of others that constitute us, whether historically or socially; culturally or biologically. ‘Mother!’ is a critique of historical dominance over women rights, but also a future view of rampant capitalism taking over every resource nature provides humanity. Even though it has many ideological and religious topics, it is key to interpret the movie considering an intimate opportunity to asses our very own human condition by traversing many mythological and mystical passages.