from a Paris Review interview with Stephen Greenblatt, new book on Adam & Eve.

[John Bailey]

Only really got the Biblical stuff after too - very overt on
reflection, to the point of being overdone. Much better as a
reflection on the arrogance and destruction wrought by the artist's
ego, but also works well as a meditation on patriarchy. And the
director has said it's largely about climate change which I didn't
even consider. So many levels! In such a weird-ass package!
His previous film Noah was just as strange, if only because it's a
100% sincere Old Testament movie with no irony whatsoever.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Saw it and, yes, it's definitely worth seeing. I agree that it was 20 or so
> minutes too long. The final bit of dialogue was a little too overt.
>
> Only got the biblical interpretation from reading the reviews afterwards. It
> also works as a meditation on the creative process.
>
> Laura
>
> On Sep 28, 2017 8:14 PM, "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Has there been any mention of Darren Aronofsky's new film Mother!
>> here? Very Biblical allegory. Seems like one a bunch of P-listers
>> would enjoy, ie it's totally effing bonkers. While watching it I
>> couldn't tell if it was brilliant or really really terrible, but you
>> definitely need to discuss it afterwards, all of which makes for a
>> recommendation. Although be warned - it could have been cut by 20
>> minutes, and there's at least one awful moment that will test the
>> mettle of most viewers.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Allan Balliett
>> <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Did she have some place where he could put it?
>> >
>> > -Allan in WV, where we think of this sort of things if we aren't getting
>> > enough opioids
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> “It occurred to him then that his penis was somehow not quite his own,
>> >> that it was Eve’s bone.”
>> >
>> >
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