The Babadook 2014

The Babadook 2014

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The Babadook is an Australian horror film that showed at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It has received rave commercial and critical reviews. The Babadook is definitely not the conventional horror film. It is a moving story about Amelia (Essie Davis), a struggling single mother emotionally wrecked by her husband’s death six years ago. Her six-year-old son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman) displays behaviors associated with an Attention Deficit Disorder. Samuel proves to be a nightmare to discipline and Amelia soon grows weary of her life. Amelia does not give up on Samuel and continues to fight for him throughout the film.

Samuel has a hyperactive imagination and is constantly anxious of monsters hiding in his room. Samuel manages to alienate everyone around him (including the audience) with his strange obsession with weapons and monsters. The audience grows increasingly annoyed of watching Samuel’s antics on screen as he often puts Amelia in uncomfortable and exasperating situations. Amelia never celebrates Samuel’s birthday on the actual day, as it is a reminder of her husband’s death. Her extended family and friends cast Amelia and Samuel away, unable to tolerate Amelia’s depression and Samuel’s outlandish and even violent behavior. The relationship between Samuel and Amelia is portrayed to be an almost hellish nightmare at the beginning - Samuel is constantly worried about monsters and the possible loss of another parent, while Amelia is helplessly trying to care for Samuel without losing her mind. Midway through the film, the audience is left as tired as Amelia. The darkness and psychological strife that plagues this family sets the stage for The Babadook’s entrance.

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