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Themes and analysis

Multiple interpretations

Scholars and academics have offered many possible readings of Begotten; film critics are similarly divided on their interpretations of it. Ryerson University professor Carolyn L. Kane argues that Begotten's grainy and decayed visual style invites differing interpretations from the audience. Kane concludes that the film's ambiguity also functions as an allegory to the viewer's uncertainty, in what she describes as "the hermeneutic of the image".

Death and rebirth

Death

Merhige's experiances

Decay

Violence

Religion, mythology, and the occult

Christianity and motifs

Creation mythology

Alchemy and hermeticism