

He places the new fire crystal in its holder and we’re brought back to the beginning of the film where placing the fire crystal in the holder undoes the fire damage and a woman wakes up in their bed. She turns to ash and the burned heart becomes a new fire crystal.

The Poet then takes the mother’s charred body and takes out her beating heart with his hands. fossil fuels) to destroy herself along with humanity with God powerless to stop it. communion), then proceeds to assault Mother Earth with God absent yet again, and Mother Earth finally uses oil (i.e.

So even when presented with a savior and total innocent, mankind only kills, eats the flesh of the Messiah (i.e. They then assault the Mother, ripping at her clothes and beating her senseless before she’s finally able to escape, go down to the basement, smash open an oil drum, and set the entire place on fire. The allegory here seems to be that God abandoned the Earth for stretches at a time before the messiah figure was born.īut then mankind screws it all up again and snatches away the baby, kills it, and eats its flesh as they worship at an altar to the Poet. The New Testament element is that the Mother’s child is a Christ figure, but before he’s born, the Mother goes through a hellish experience surrounded by war, human trafficking, and other nightmarish visuals before the Poet finally reappears and brings her to his private office where she can give birth to their son. At this point, the story is kind of leaving the biblical text behind and moving more into historical record.
