There’s no doubt there’s a lot of symbolism in a movie called “The Mother,” but there’s a lot in this action thriller where Jennifer Lopez plays a trained hitman who has to protect his abandoned daughter. contains the symbolism of
In the opening scene, Lopez’s character, known only as her mother, is interrogated by an FBI agent trying to obtain information on two arms dealers she has worked and slept with. Agent Cruz (Omari Hardwick) has respect. Another agent (Link Baker), to a lesser extent, tells her so in her Hector monologue. (One of her sinful pleasures in this movie is hoping when the Mansplainer will be silenced.)
In Niki Caro’s fast-paced film, Agent Cruz assures his mother that she’s safe. “No, it’s not,” she says. Who do you think is right? The mayhem ensues, and in a startling act of swift violence, we learn that the mother is pregnant. Newborn Zoe is left with her loving family, and her mother retreats to Alaska, supported by her fellow soldier Johns (Paul Lacy).
The arrangement has kept the mother and child safe for 12 years, but from Agent Cruz Zoe (Lucy Paez) finds out that her mother’s former partners, Adrian Lovell (Joseph Fiennes) and Hector Alvarez (Gael García Bernal), have been killed. You will be notified that it has been found by Lovell is a very smooth production. As Alvarez, Bernal is immersed in candlelight atrocities as the setting shifts to Cuba.
What kind of resistance will the men encounter? Lovell trained Mather as a sniper in Afghanistan. She also knows how to twist the blade.
They should not cheat their mother’s nature. Aside from the deadpan exchanges between her mother and Zoe, Lopez plays the role intensely. Still, it’s not always clear which of the film’s gestures should be taken seriously, and which flaunt the genre’s masculine stance while offering an allegory about the sacrifice of a biological mother.
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Rated R for gun and knife violence, some language, and brief drug use. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes. Watch it on Netflix.
