The technique is still relatively honest, the narrative rhythm is slow, the lens is calm, and sometimes it is more fun and not fancy. I really like the way babadook plays, it's very similar to silent movies. The design of babadook’s book is very beautiful, I really want one~~~~
The biggest highlight of this film should be the theme and character setting.
I think the little boy gave this film a lot of points. I saw someone like this in the first movie. Love mom. He always stood by his mother's side, no matter how her mother angered him or even almost killed him, he did not give up. And he is very smart, just like a kid in the family. On the night that his mother was about to go mad, he turned magic without taking medicine. He was indeed a little magician. After her mother went mad, she successfully saved her mother with her own weapons and traps, and she also saved her life. He told his mother that i know you dont love me, the babadook wont let you, but i love you mum, and i always will, I see this heart melted. This little boy is smart and playful with a bit of naughty, flesh and blood. This image is better than many children in horror movies.
I also like the role of mother a lot. The main reason is that she is very simple and kind. Unlike most of the protagonists of horror movies, she really has no place to make me black, and I can't bear to be black. Husband is dead. She takes care of children by herself and studies for them. Usually there are no friends or parties. Only one younger sister can talk about it. Her job is to take care of the elderly, and she also thinks of ways to play with the elderly. Life is so boring. Fortunately, she can still live Persevere, really don't want anything to happen to her.
This pair of mother and son is my only concern when watching this film. I think babadook should be the demon of the mother and son. It has always been there, but it is not obvious. When the mother encountered troubles in her life and work, the demon of the dead husband who was suppressed in her mother's heart grew bigger and bigger, the more she thought about it, the harder it was to sleep, and she was shocked all day, everywhere she saw babadook, and she was mentally weak. , The demons were able to develop and gradually accumulate and explode. In fact, this is a sense of guilt. The husband killed his wife in a car crash on the production road, but the wife and son survived. The wife will definitely be a little unhappy with the child. Here is a plot where my mother’s sister told her to forget her husband. Combined with the car accident at the beginning and her husband’s appearance at the beginning, I was not sure if babadook was related to her demons. I basically figured it out after seeing this.
As for why children can see Babadook, I guess it is because Babadook is related to his father and is his father’s god of death. There are two possibilities. One is to make you want you to see it on purpose, or because it’s his father, the boy will definitely be able to see it. Anyway, if the child sees it, the child is very upset, and he will call out a monster or push her all day long. My cousin goes down and troubles her mother. There is an extra factor outside of life that makes her feel more and more unhappy, and she wants to kill the child. Babadook asked the mother to exchange the child's life for the father, so that the mother felt like a passing away and redeemed her sin. (The more you talk, the stranger it is, it's probably like this anyway...)
Fortunately, in the end, the son used his love to make his mother defeat the demons. When the mother pinched him, he stroked his mother's face with his little hand, and influenced the mother. , I am also adorable. Although the mother and son locked the babadook in the basement, it is difficult to guarantee that it will appear in a certain period of time in the future, which further shows that the memory of this heart demon cannot be erased with forgetting, but you can let time dilute it. The mother told the little boy that you are still young, and I will show it to you later. I guess it might be that the mother will talk to the boy about his father’s death at some point in the future, or maybe the little boy will grow up. I was troubled by this incident, but it shouldn't be as severe as the impact my mother suffered.
In any case, the mother and son passed a hurdle in their lives and celebrated their birthday happily in the garden. The son turned magic to show his mother and lay in his mother’s arms without being bothered by others.
A horror movie can do this, not relying on the scary scenes, but creating a psychological atmosphere of horror, and also tells a simple and touching story with heart. The ending is not only reasonable in general, but also a rare "anti-traditional" good ending. , And it’s not the kind of good that ends when the big boss bad guy dies, but the kind that should become good in the future. This is very good, so I can’t bear to look for this movie. Faults and shortcomings
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