We explore the complicated themes and cruel bloodletting in the ending to Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence’s mother!

This article contains majormother!spoilers.

Weve been here before.

Is she the same lady of the house as before?

An indulgent one too.

Albeit, this is by design.

The film ultimately refines itself by the third act into a picture that revels in surrealism and magical realism.

Instead, viewers are asked to feel the mother-to-bes emotion.

So enters Jennifer Lawrences nameless heroine.

Hence even before the weirdness begins, Lawrences onscreen life is already a haunted affair.

She wakes up throughout the first act alone and without a husband.

Hes making love to his impugned honor after Lawrence drops that gauntlet before him.

Or perhaps a notch on his belt?

Not once does Bardem help his wife, because it is her love, not his.

It inspires him, but so would any mirror.

The first who do appear are longtime admirers of Bardem: Ed Harris and Pfeiffers husband and wife characters.

He quickly concludes Lawrence is a cunt since she will not leave with him that very night.

She is called a bitch and a cunt again by the mob, including a resurgent Wall Street Bro.

Still, the movie by its end is not Lawrences.

Lawrence has given and lost everything for Bardem and his art, and received nothing in return.

But still, Bardem is not done!

He steals Lawrences life (and movie) from her by makingherdeath about him andhisego.

The structure is destroyed, but it just is one more token of Bardems genius.

He puts it on a shelf and starts again.

Invariably, a new woman sleeps in his bed and takes the role of caregiver in his mothers house.

Bardem has love again.

Out one door and in another.

The cycle continues, and the art is fed.

In return, Guy becomes a successful Broadway star and sees his career skyrocket.

mother!is that treachery at feature length.

But there is no Devil or rapey demons here.

The monster is an artists vanity and its unquenchable thirst for adulation and congratulation.

To marry into that, Aronofsky would appear to suggest, is a greater hell than anything else imaginable.

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