Quick rundown:

Jennifer Lawrence is mother nature, Javier Bardem is God, and the house represents earth. Ed harris is Adam, when he's naked and he has a gash on side, it is representing the rib that god took to create Eve. Michelle Pfieffer is Eve and their two sons represent cain and abel.

Her baby is the messiah and man persecuted him. Eating it represent eating "the body and blood of christ". The "war" is a montage of human suffering and the destruction of what was given to us. It is the culmination of our sins apparently and our constant need to take and destroy. Mother becomes fed up with it and burns the house, the apocalypse.

The movie follows a lot of stories from the bible and if you have any experience with it, it becomes clear that the movie is just an allegory on creationism.

I read the director wrote this in 5 days and I think you can tell. It's an interesting movie and I think the relationship between god and mother nature made it worth the watch. It felt like more of an experiment than an actual movie. Once I understood what I was watching the shock factor lost its impact though.

Anyway, just finished it. I am still processing it, but hope this helped.

It did, I went in not knowing much about it...I did see the Biblical similarities, but some parts confused me (like the war scenes).

Thanks for your thorough explanation.

@Rtodd110 said:

Quick rundown:

Jennifer Lawrence is mother nature, Javier Bardem is God, and the house represents earth. Ed harris is Adam, when he's naked and he has a gash on side, it is representing the rib that god took to create Eve. Michelle Pfieffer is Eve and their two sons represent cain and abel.

Her baby is the messiah and man persecuted him. Eating it represent eating "the body and blood of christ". The "war" is a montage of human suffering and the destruction of what was given to us. It is the culmination of our sins apparently and our constant need to take and destroy. Mother becomes fed up with it and burns the house, the apocalypse.

The movie follows a lot of stories from the bible and if you have any experience with it, it becomes clear that the movie is just an allegory on creationism.

I read the director wrote this in 5 days and I think you can tell. It's an interesting movie and I think the relationship between god and mother nature made it worth the watch. It felt like more of an experiment than an actual movie. Once I understood what I was watching the shock factor lost its impact though.

Anyway, just finished it. I am still processing it, but hope this helped.

Oh, now I understand. I think this is one of those movies you have to know the premise before watching it to get it, otherwise you're left confused as fuck.

Films like this are complete failures in my eyes. When I was in film school I used to get off on textual analysis now that Im older I realize if you need to do research to get anything out of a film, youve failed. There should be a liminal story and then the deeper meanings should thicken the stew. This kind of film is only for professors and writers.

anyone who has been exposed to any of the major 3 abrahamic religions would get the biblical themes in the movie... anyone alive in the past 15 years would get the climate alarm aspect as well...

don't get lost in the details of how each part fits into another or is paralleled in another text... just get into the flow of it... it's kinetic and the fever dream aspect ratchets up better when watching it that way... you can feel it better than analysing it...

Theres good weird and theres bad weird and this sounds like bad weird.

@Innovator said:

@Rtodd110 said:

Quick rundown:

Jennifer Lawrence is mother nature, Javier Bardem is God, and the house represents earth. Ed harris is Adam, when he's naked and he has a gash on side, it is representing the rib that god took to create Eve. Michelle Pfieffer is Eve and their two sons represent cain and abel.

Her baby is the messiah and man persecuted him. Eating it represent eating "the body and blood of christ". The "war" is a montage of human suffering and the destruction of what was given to us. It is the culmination of our sins apparently and our constant need to take and destroy. Mother becomes fed up with it and burns the house, the apocalypse.

The movie follows a lot of stories from the bible and if you have any experience with it, it becomes clear that the movie is just an allegory on creationism.

I read the director wrote this in 5 days and I think you can tell. It's an interesting movie and I think the relationship between god and mother nature made it worth the watch. It felt like more of an experiment than an actual movie. Once I understood what I was watching the shock factor lost its impact though.

Anyway, just finished it. I am still processing it, but hope this helped.

Oh, now I understand. I think this is one of those movies you have to know the premise before watching it to get it, otherwise you're left confused as fuck.

Amen!! If this movie wasn't the craziest shit!!

I can't say I'm an expert in the multitude of religions in human history, but the attempt to fuse a religious tale with climate change is utterly bizarre, and just didn't seem to work. I'll excuse myself entirely from not joining any dots until late in the film.

• If it is Adam and Eve, then where was the serpent and the apple? How could such a key aspect of that tale be ommitted? There was no temptation.
• Why would Mother Earth have anything to do with the birth of a baby, billions of years into the mothers life?
• What concerns are raised in holy texts about man made climate change that would merit this fusion of themes?
• If the house was the planet, why did it go through a cycle of rebirth rather than being created from nothingness in 7 days?
• Why was there no wrath in a god that would happily kill the first born of various families and send perfectly pleasant individuals to eternal damnation? Bardem just could not be provoked. He had the most minor of hissy fits when his crystal was shattered.
  
• Why is the house creepy early on, before the arrival of humans (Adam and Eve)?
• if God writes two successful books, is that meant to be his followers writing the new and old testament? If not what are the things he is writing?
• why is mother fearful of losing god after reading his last book?

etc, etc, etc

Just picking random elements of two utterly unrelated things and putting them in a cooking pot does not a worthwhile film make.

I liked Pi, but everything since by this director I've given 5/10 or less. This got 4/10 for the interesting first half that was shot creatively and that promised much, but ultimately fell flat.

Environmentalism (and it's offshoot veganism) are quite religious... they are certainly ideological... I think it's not a stretch to link it to traditional religions...

But it's not just environmentalism that is linked, you have social turmoil as well, with the cops and execution style shooting, etc...

Pretty intense movie... very cinematic and a unique experience...