The cosmicity of the house: its myths and images in the movie Mother!, by Darren Aronofsky

• Published in: Travessias Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 113 - 126
• Main Authors: Adriano Menino de Macêdo Júnior, Roniê Rodrigues da Silva
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná 01-08-2021
• Subjects: casa; darren aronofsky; mitos; mãe
• ISSN: 1982-5935
• DOI: 10.48075/rt.v15i2.27750

This work aims to carry out a critical reading of the film Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky and released in the United States in 2017. Specifically, it intends to problematize about how a filmic narrative reenacts a series of myths from the universal literature, that unfold in the cinematographic version considering the symbolism of the territory of the house, which is understood as a particular universe that is related to a cosmic meaning, through which it comes to represent the world itself. In the development of our reflections, we resorted to studies in the mythology field, from the reading of theorists such as Mircea Eliade (2007) and Philip Freund (2008), and about the symbolism of the center, through the researches of Raissa Cavalcanti (2008) and Chevalier and Gheerbrant (2009), to highlight the dialogical relationships in the plot of Mother! and certain literary archetypes. We also focused, particularly, in the approach around the images of the house, carrying out a phenomenological analysis of its vital places with the theoretical support of Gaston Bachelard (2000), to demonstrate how the architecture of the house is erected from a polarity between the spaces above and below in the film.