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http://gearsofbiz.com/what-is-the-y...ks-is-as-mysterious-as-the-movie-itself/64323
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"Lawrence’s character creates her special yellow drink by mixing some unmarked yellow powder into a glass of water. Immediately, her hallucinations cease and the insufferable ringing in her ears quiets....Mother keeps the powder in an unmarked vial, suggesting that whatever the yellow powder is, it isn’t doctor-prescribed anti-anxiety medication. That said, it could be some kind of natural supplement. (This would also fit with the idea that Mother is really Mother Nature.) One option of what it might be: Kava, a tea with known psychoactive effects. Kava has been known to reduce anxiety, and, in concentrated quantities, essentially get you high. The Kava root is frequently ground down to a powder and added to water, not unlike Mother’s yellow powder. Granted, Kava is known for its brown color, but, less concentrated Kava tea can have a yellow tint... Drug or symbolic insanity? You decide."
So, OK. Kava is brown, but kava extract is yellow, and a couple people here have reported that it can help with tinnitis....but this seems like a bit of a stretch. Probably it's a fictional substance inspired by kava and other things.
In other news:
Mother! earns a rare, semi-coveted F from CinemaScore
"The CinemaScore F has become a perverse badge of pride for some films, though, a reflection of a movie that goes out of its way to artfully alienate or confuse audiences."
Quote:
"Lawrence’s character creates her special yellow drink by mixing some unmarked yellow powder into a glass of water. Immediately, her hallucinations cease and the insufferable ringing in her ears quiets....Mother keeps the powder in an unmarked vial, suggesting that whatever the yellow powder is, it isn’t doctor-prescribed anti-anxiety medication. That said, it could be some kind of natural supplement. (This would also fit with the idea that Mother is really Mother Nature.) One option of what it might be: Kava, a tea with known psychoactive effects. Kava has been known to reduce anxiety, and, in concentrated quantities, essentially get you high. The Kava root is frequently ground down to a powder and added to water, not unlike Mother’s yellow powder. Granted, Kava is known for its brown color, but, less concentrated Kava tea can have a yellow tint... Drug or symbolic insanity? You decide."
So, OK. Kava is brown, but kava extract is yellow, and a couple people here have reported that it can help with tinnitis....but this seems like a bit of a stretch. Probably it's a fictional substance inspired by kava and other things.
In other news:
Mother! earns a rare, semi-coveted F from CinemaScore
"The CinemaScore F has become a perverse badge of pride for some films, though, a reflection of a movie that goes out of its way to artfully alienate or confuse audiences."
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Did you watch it yourself or just read about it? The second link you posted which discussed the F rating from CinemaScore was interesting to me. The one comment underneath the article from a movie goer was interesting. He describes how the movie made him feel all pumped up and wired and that he didn't even know if he liked it or not, but that it was a long time since a film elicited that type of response from him. I have noticed a similar phenomenon with certain books in myself. Whenever I read anything by Franz Kafka it just does something in my brain as if the stories themselves are like a key that unlocks a door in my mind that was previously closed. I notice I get bursts of creative energy and interesting dreams, as if the story itself has some magic formula of words that unlocks the door even if the story itself is just rambling and nonsensical (*cough cough Great Wall of China cough cough*). I wonder if that happens to anyone else. I am not the most well read person in the world so I don't know if other author's works would have the same effect on me, but so far only Franz Kafka's works have given me that effect.
