As mother! continues to draw mixed reactions, Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence are doing their best to explain its polarizing concept.
Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky on the set of mother! “The movie was called “Day Six” [on set]: it could be about the creation and the end of the universe.
Lawrence is Gaia, or Mother Earth, while her house represents the world — a living, breathing organism being destroyed by its inhabitants.
But according to Lawrence and Arronfsky, its box office failure is at least partially owed to its complex symbolism.