In the seven years since losing her husband, the heroine has not been out of the shadows. I don't know how many nights, she would keep dreaming about the scene where her husband's head was shaved off on the road in the hospital that day. Seven years is more than two thousand days and nights. One can imagine the long-depressed psychological pressure. I am afraid that this is not only psychological pressure, but also an almost distorted psychological condition, a condition that is close to neurasthenia under high pressure.
Babadook's storybook is just an accident and an inevitable. Babadook's story book says: You can't get rid of me, I will be parasitic under your skin, and I will scare you. This seems to be just the beginning, but it is actually just the fuse that detonated the heroine's emotions. Not only the nostalgia and grief for her husband, but also the helplessness to oneself, the powerlessness and contradiction to the children.
Just like the clothes of Babadook, it was the clothes of the husband in the basement, and later it appeared more directly in the form of the husband. The hostess shouted to the child in despair: I hope you die, not him. What's in it is full of nostalgia and regret for her husband. And these emotions are hard to let go, and eventually become Babadook who possesses himself. What Babadook wants is nothing more than the heroine kills the child and then commits suicide. This is just like the illusion that the heroine is in a trance, hoping to do something to change everything and go back to the past seven years ago. The husband continued to be together.
At the end of the film, when the heroine sees everything the child has done for herself, sees the child’s love for herself, and finally understands that the person who loves herself and her only living relative is her own son, and cannot be ruined by those fantasies and regrets about the past. Drop everything now. She held the child hysterically and called out Babadook to leave her, not to harass the child. Babadook also crashed to the ground, unable to hurt them anymore.
And the best thing at the end is: you can't get rid of Babadook. Indeed, your inner demons can be suppressed, but they cannot be eliminated. Even if you can see the past, but the memory is indelible. It is indeed the best choice to suppress the memories and sentimental feelings of her husband in the basement together with the relics. Put those here, the outside world is a happy and normal life with the children.
Babadook is not a ghost, but the misfortune and long-term depressed emotion in his heart for her husband.
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addition, I want to say more about the child. I always thought that the child is the most sad character in the film. The death of his father indirectly caused by his own birth, even if he did nothing, was destined to accept the unusual vision of his mother. When you see yourself, you will think of your late husband who died tragically. Even if you don't regard yourself as a murderer, your life must be difficult. Not only have I never had a birthday party, but I am afraid that I have never had a complete maternal love. Children are keen on slingshots and other projectile toys. The mother has a headache and finds it unacceptable, but later it seems that these are actions that the child wants to protect the mother. The helpless face shouted over and over again: I just want to protect you. Even in the most dangerous times, he did not abandon his mother, but always guarded him, hoping to use his true feelings to drive away the Babadook in his mother's heart, and hope to use his sincerity to guard this incomplete family.
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