I watched this movie for the first time, and I didn’t understand it at all. I was at a loss. What is it talking about? My feelings are similar to the following short comment:
The husband died in a car accident while sending his wife to have a child. The day the child was born became her husband’s anniversary. Love and resentment breed and grow at the same time. The depressed single-parent family causes both mother and child to be in a state of mental depression, and finally fantasizes about a Babadu demon. At the end of the story, on the surface, both mother and child seem to have returned to normal, but they did not come out at all.
But this short comment is actually wrong .
Later, I read a psychology book called Emotional Agility. It was written by Susan David, a professor of psychology at Harvard. This horror film was mentioned in the book, so I can figure out what the film is about.
In fact, this movie is about PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and Babadook is actually the heart demon caused by PTSD after the heroine died of her husband .
The hostess husband died while sending her to the hospital to give birth. In the following seven years, she remained in the shadows. She was very depressed and kept nightmares. She hated her son and hoped that it was her son who died instead of her husband.
At the end of the film, when the hostess sees everything the child has done for herself, and sees the child's love for herself, she 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.
You can't get rid of Babadook, the ending heroine keeps Babadook (her heart demon) in the basement, takes care of it, implying that she faces the tragedy and accepts reality, she learns to tame and accommodate it, without letting it dictate her life.
Babadook is not a ghost, but a long-term depressed feeling towards her husband.
Therefore, in the top commentary, it is wrong to think that "the heart has not come out at all". In the end, the heroine faces the tragedy and accepts reality, but acceptance does not mean forgetting, let alone denying.
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