All the obvious elements aside, many of the details of the director's setup can be discussed on their own.
The most obvious expressionist technique of the whole film runs through the whole play, but it is precisely because of the tension of expressionism that the picture presented in front of the audience is not real. "Life is always blindfolded" - what you see Not necessarily the truth - I can't help but wonder: is the purity and whiteness at the end of the film really the reality, or are we only seeing what we expect, ignoring the truths we don't understand and choose not to understand?
Please allow me to express rational pessimism - is there such a possibility: the ending of the story is that the mother died. As the TV news described, the mother killed her own child in the basement and then committed suicide, after all, she could not resist her own demons , death frees itself and leads to all the goodness of paradise.
Allow me to maintain this reasonable doubt. Judging from the technique of the whole film, the director attempts to express the form of stream of consciousness through fantasy images, especially when the mother is holding a knife and facing the son on the sofa, and is awakened by the son - she has seen the son being stabbed to death by herself. The tragic situation, the image of death has been concretized in her mind, she is afraid that the fantasy will become reality, but deep down she longs, "If only the son died instead of the husband." , the audience has hinted in their minds countless times that it is not reality but a picture imagined in her mind, subjectively they will think about the good side, the ending seems happy, but it may be an open ending, what we see in front of us The beautiful picture may be just an excuse. At the moment when the pupils are enlarged, the mother is already dead and scared to death by her own inner demon. The child's birthday is the anniversary of her husband's death. This time of year is not easy. In the end, the son told the two people at the Children's Rescue Center that he had hurt his cousin. The mother felt that the son had only had his first birthday when he was 7 years old. Surprisingly, my mother's split personality was helpless at this moment, and even her own sister abandoned her. The whole film is about facing PTSD, but this is not a science and education film but a horror film. The gap between performance and reality is very obvious. The cruelty of reality is not shown. The suppressed emotions finally burst out through the pleasure of venting, and the power of The sharp increase makes the change very obvious, but after the appalling experience, we are more willing to accept the illusion of beauty.
This is really not a science and education film, it shows more of a traumatized single mother alone facing the complex emotions of love and hate of the child who indirectly led to the death of her beloved husband, disguised as a sweet shell of children's comics. , hiding the collapse and separation of the spiritual world, the delicate portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder shows the director's skills, the pale and tired mother and the frightened and aggressive son are inextricably linked, and the child is an innocent victim In other words, self-defense behavior in turn leads to the deterioration of the mother's attitude, and the vicious cycle is repeated, and either party's remedy requires advanced awareness, which is impossible and impossible. The son showed rescue and retention from beginning to end, which was pitiful and distressing, but the shadow of Babadook always lingered, and the shadow that could not be shaken was the guilt that should not belong to him. From the appearance, the mother always appears to be in a trance, but she always blames the child for guiding her son. The mother's early illusions can still be awakened by the son, but at the end of the story, the surprise of the man and the woman stops abruptly. , all foreshadowing the inevitable conflict of the end.
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