More_Badass
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Haven't seen a movie in quite some time that made me want to break it down and analyze it. While watching I started noticing the Biblical references, but afterwards reading articles, I realized the entire movie is allegory.
So while there are certainly other interpretations, the most clear is that it's a representation of the Bible. Bardem is God, more specifically Yahweh; he even says he is "I am I". Lawrence is Mother Nature, or earth, or maybe human nature, much like how she represents the audience's POV and confused mindset. Harris and Pfeiffer are Adam and Eve. The Gleeson brothers are Cain and Abel. The writer study is the garden of eden, the crystal/heart is the apple. The baby cannibalism is communion. I assume the basement is hell, and the final inferno is revelations/the apocalypse
I interpreted the chaos through the end as mankind's corruption of the Bible and religion, how the teachings spread from simple followers to more and more people until the once beautiful inspiring message is corrupted and twisted to be merely used as justification for war and slavery and other horrible acts
So while there are certainly other interpretations, the most clear is that it's a representation of the Bible. Bardem is God, more specifically Yahweh; he even says he is "I am I". Lawrence is Mother Nature, or earth, or maybe human nature, much like how she represents the audience's POV and confused mindset. Harris and Pfeiffer are Adam and Eve. The Gleeson brothers are Cain and Abel. The writer study is the garden of eden, the crystal/heart is the apple. The baby cannibalism is communion. I assume the basement is hell, and the final inferno is revelations/the apocalypse
I interpreted the chaos through the end as mankind's corruption of the Bible and religion, how the teachings spread from simple followers to more and more people until the once beautiful inspiring message is corrupted and twisted to be merely used as justification for war and slavery and other horrible acts