The movie Mother explores a mother’s extreme mothering to protect her son, and how that mothering is twisted into guilt and a desire for oblivion. Mother commits murder to cover up her son’s sins, and then attempts to turn a blind eye to her own sins by performing a dance of oblivion to deceive herself. Through this process, the film explores how motherhood can be taken to extremes...
Was Mother’s twisted motherhood a desperate struggle to save Do-joon or a dance of oblivion to deceive herself?
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