Hidden meanings in Film noir: MOTHER (2009) - Rice cake for sex or five dollars for your love...

Published on 8 November 2025 at 14:26

Thank you for joining us once again as you enjoy our review of life lessons and morals from this Korean movie titled MOTHER (2009). This award winning movie symbolizes the victimization of love and shows the struggles of those who stand for rightness in society.  

 

  • Don't Be Cajoled 
    Do-joon (Won Bin) is cajoled by Jin-tae (Jin Goo) to embark on a revenge mission against a hit and run vehicle. A simple incident or oversight that could be ignored leads to a police case. Jin-tae even claims that the rearview windshield was destroyed by Do-joon. Do-joon couldn't conquer his ego and listen to his mother.
    Cajoling is a common tool of distraction. Many people have lost good opportunities to have fun and live freely because of cajoling schemes that prey on human ego. Many new recruits to gangs have lost their lives on a revenge mission because they're cajoled to believe that an opposing gang oppresses them. They are distracted from the bonds of enslavement which deprives them from love and a good life and misdirected to violence as a way of proving their manhood. This lesson is especially important to angelics who haven't become conscious of the entrapment of women by demonics, yet they fall for the cajoling demonic who sends them on a revenge mission to their death. As we have analyzed in previous movies ( Honey, Hope Lost, The House on Fin Street, and Girls For Sale ) the demonic tenet bonded systems offer no true benefits to the angelic. Therefore, those angelics who join in the hope of fun or sexual pleasure are usually incited to violence or missions which lead them to jail or death.
  • Your Brother's Keeper 
    Do-joon is wrongly accused for the murder of a girl and the police make an elaborate attempt at proving he's guilty. The accusations and scapegoating of innocence in place of true evil doers is one of the reasons behind the abolition of the death penalty in many countries. Even in Christianity, the crowd chose Barnabas over Jesus, and innocent Jesus was sentenced to death.
    How many times have you sided with punishing, enslaving, or cheating someone wrongly? How many times have you swindled someone because they were ignorant and you wanted to make yourself rich? Have you been a good friend speaking up and standing up for your friend's right even in their absence? Or have you been the 'wise' friend who pretends to suffer with his friend only to connive with others to cheat him behind his back? Integrity and accountability are the bedrock of prosperous systems, but in our current world we promote false prosperity, a world were love is slain and wickedness is amusing. Learn to be your brother's keeper and look out for the rights of others because the entire system of humanity is directly or indirectly affected by the cheating of those who are powerless against oppression.  

 

  • They Stand Alone 
    Mother (Kim Hye-ja) stands alone as she struggles for her son's freedom. In our world were wrongness is prosperously promoted, those who stand for the right things are severely marginalized and discriminated. This imbalance in the system of things is a direct consequence of the deprivation of the angelic aspect of our humanity. The rightness in angelics and the wrongness in the demonics have been at war since creation's origins (see ebook: Angels and Demons Feud). The entrapment and enslavement of angelic women and men by demonics and the subsequent deprivation of the angelic from the creative substances or promotions of love has resulted in severe disbalance in the system of things. Those who partake of the systems of entrapment and enslavement become bonded to the wrongness of things and although they might try various means, like charity, to compensate for this wrongness, its never really enough. In a balanced world there'd be minimal need for charity because most people would find a proper fit according to their gifts and talents. We must work towards restructuring and sustaining balance in our world.

 

  • The Most Dangerous Weapon 
    Jin-tae portrays an explicit image of a betraying friend. The images of war in Jin-tae's room and the way he frames Do-joon into trouble help symbolize the agents of entrapping systems who keep true lovers or 'fools' under oppressive and stressful situations to prevent them from progressing. Furthermore, the girl Do-joon fancies is later revealed as a sex partner with Jin-tae.
    The most dangerous weapon in your life is a betraying friend, who keeps you down to help himself up. This is the situation between Michaeleans and the bonded tormenting first. The problem of the bonded first is described on our eBooks, and its also evident in various aspect of history and arts. There is Judas Iscariot whose Michealean was Jesus. Judas who always tried to be first to put his hand in the bowl at the last supper and ended up betraying Jesus to death. Even wars are won based on the information gathered by spies who pretend to be allies.
    It is better to have no friends than to have a betraying friend but it is very difficult to tell if your friend is really working against you. Therefore, it is better to reach a level of independence in your life with minimal reliance on friendships. This is also relates to the importance of societal balance that creates various opportunities for people to express their talents and gifts in economically viable ways. 

 

  • Orchestrated Blame 
    In jail Do-joon is provoked to violence when he's called a retard and this doesn't help his case. The scene expresses the orchestrated provocation of innocents into violent responses that makes them prime suspects in violent crimes. How many times has love been wrongly killed? How many women are wrongly blamed for the problem of love whereas they are actually victims? There are many instances in life where people have a wrong perspective about those fighting against wrongs. For example, many women think feminists are actually pretenders who only want some (sex). These insinuations are due to a wrong perspective on things, a shroud or veil over the true nature of things. For example, if a feminists complains about female entrapments and ends up being a womanizer it would be viewed in the wrong light because the critics missed the point! Womanizing is not the same as entrapment and enslavement of women. Having multiple sexual partners is not the same as being stripped naked and flogged in public (three is a crowd). Heartbreak, leaving, or jilting someone is not the same as forcing a woman to be sexed till she's rid of sensitivity or irresponsive or like they say in the system till 'there's nothing special about it'. Directly or indirectly these things have more impact on societal and human progress than is visible at the lower levels where they are done and encouraged. Therefore, do not be misguided by conceited thoughts because this blog is more about correcting the social balance resulting from the entrapments and enslavements of the angelics. Moreover, true feminism is directly related to social balance and economic prosperity. It is about sweet sex for all!!!
    How many times have you struggled with mental health due to provocations? Take a cue from the movie review of 6 Souls, and be careful how you respond to stimuli. Have a firm grounding based on principles that you can refer to in stressful situations. 

 

  • Repeating Cycles and Scientific Knowledge 
    Mother is an expert at acupuncture and she explicitly describes what her needles can accomplish. The knowledge in acupuncture explicitly shows how nerves control the body through connections to the brain. This is certainly relevant to modern medicine and shows that this ancient knowledge was based on advanced intelligence. The accuracy and relevance of acupuncture is a testament evidence of the repeating cycles of life, evidence that humanity was once very advanced before the great fall that sent us all back to primitive life. We should see the bigger picture, the importance of social and economic balance between the two conflicting forces of creation (See eBook: Angels and Demons Feud). We should work against a repeat of the great fall because we are still at the foundation of our human race journey. So let us build a firm foundation by ensuring balance in the system of things! 

 

  • Rice Cake for Sex 
    The murdered girl, Moon Ah-jung (Moon Hee-Ra), is ridiculed as a slut who accepts rice cake in exchange for sex. This is just a euphemism for the sale of women among members of the system. Whether its rice cake for sex or five dollars for your love, its based on the same system of cheating love because not all men are initiated or introduced to the cheap sharing of women that symbolizes the bonds against true love or unlovableness (see eBooks). In other words, to informed initiates those who go to brothels are still fools and those who spend lavishly on women are still fools. 'Fools' they claim lovers to be, but the real fools are those who accept the wrongs without seeing the big picture. A fool can spend all his money buying gifts for a girl he likes, while she's being passed around for $5 dollars by over 20 guys in her bonded entrapment system. Furthermore, because of the enforced bonds, the women still have to look down on those who respect them with love. See the eBook titled 'Curse of True love' so you can understand the problem of Michealeans, and relate it to the importance of societal and economic balance. The lovers who go mad are the most important members of our society for their duty is inscribed in their DNA. Their madness is a warning to remember the importance of preventing another great fall. The memories of a great fall from 'Star Wars' is described in a previous article titled STORIES, IMAGES, AND KNOWLEDGE FROM ANCIENT TIMES

 

  • Double Standards 
    Mother ends up committing murder as she tries to prove her son's innocence. The saying 'die a hero or end up becoming the villain', relates to someone who tries too hard to correct evil. For example, if a feminist against female entrapment starts to discipline women by scolding and beating them to enforce their rejection of humiliating acts by the system, he would only succeed in being more abusive. Don't become what you're trying to correct. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can. Just like darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can. Remember freewill is important to sustaining balance because its only through freewill that talents and gifts in our collective DNA programming can be expressed.
    I hold tormenting memories from my past which come in special moments and in one of such moments I realized that there was a time when love was so frustrated that he insanely started to attack and kill the women he was trying to release. The former version of myself could only see that women where being harvested in gangbangs to steal angelic rights, but he could not see the bonds under which they were enslaved. He saw the nudity not the floggings. Its a weird memory feeling and like we have established in the movie review of 6 souls; Receive it, understand it, and fix it or ignore it. With this blog, I am trying to fix mistakes from my past life forms and I hope that the women can forgive me as they cure me and free me from bonded oppression. 
    How many serial killers are out there because they feel cheated but still don't understand why? How many cases of spousal homicide have we experienced, even among well-known celebrities. Be careful that you don't become what you're trying to correct. That stain of a mistake follows you all your life and leaves an air of suspicion around you. Even when you mean well, people would still be adamant and the real evil doers would take advantage and promote you as the evil person. 

 

That's our take on this award winning masterpiece from Korea featuring a woman (Kim Hye-ja) I like to call 'the annoying sister' although I love her so much. Enjoy the rest of your week.
Find streaming sources for the movie Mother (2009) on the links below.

Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/winnipeg/watch/video/10494810 
Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/511176/mother 
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216496/ 

 

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