Ba Ba-ba Dook Dook Dook
- Andrea Ayala
- Jul 3, 2017
- 3 min read
I was bored over the weekend and I couldn’t think of any horror movies to watch online. As I went through full movies uploaded in facebook, I have stumbled into Babadook. I remember an office mate mentioned this movie is a good horror film. So I watched it.
The movie opened when the mom (Amelia) was in labor and her husband is driving her to the hospital. Later on we learned they got into an accident and her husband died while she and her baby survived. Fast forward nearly 7 years after that incident. Her son (Sam) wakes her up in bed because there was a monster in his room. So her mom checked the closet and checked underneath his bed and read him another bed time story for him to go back to sleep.
The next day, Amelia woke up due to loud noises in her house and found out that her son has created a weapon that he claims that will help them defend from the monster. She sternly said to him not to play with such toys and be ready for school. When she dropped her off to school, we also found out that she works as a care giver at a home for the aged. Not long did she receive a call from her son’s school because her son bought a crossbow in school.
By this part of the film, you would know that Sam is a special child and terribly annoying and just look at her mom.
You can clearly see how haggard her mom is. You don’t know if it’s the cause of her son being obnoxious or due to the fact that she misses her husband and trying to suppress her grief.
One night, Sam gave Amelia a book titled Mister Babadook. It is a pop up story book and it talks about how the Babadook will make himself be known to you and how eventually you want to wish you were dead. Eventually Sam suffered a seizure and Amelia was able to get prescription for sedative for him so he can sleep. But then things went to a turn. While Sam was able to sleep because of the sedative, Amelia is starting to get hallucinations about the Babadook. She got rid of the book but it went back to her and got rid of it again, this time by burning the book. But it has gotten worst, it looks like Amelia is showing signs of being possessed. Sam managed to help her get her wits back and in the end, they have imprisoned the Babadook in their basement.
After watching the movie, now I know why it didn’t really kick off in its home country. The movie is quite boring BUT a very good film showing for psychologist students.
At first I thought the Babadook was a manifestation of a child’s imagination. His mother actually admitted that Sam already thinks his different plus he gets to be bullied at lot. Then there’s the fact that he doesn’t have a father and actually knew what happened to his dad. You would think that Sam has created this Babadook as his imaginary friend gone wrong.
But as the movie progress, you might think that it’s not Sam but it could be Amelia. For 7 years she raised Sam alone thinking that her husband could have been alive if they weren’t rushing to the hospital to give birth with Sam. The proof could be her constant dreams about what happened that day. Add up that her son turned out to be a special child and needs constant attention and understanding; I wouldn’t blame her for going crazy. If we are going to apply the poltergeist theory in this movie, it looks like the Babadook is the manifestation of Amelia’s depression and grief for the past 7 years taking a form.
The ending was kinda funny. She finally stood up with the monster which means she finally admitted the reality of what happened 7 years ago. There was a screaming stand up, she screamed at the monster and the monster retreated down her basement. In the ending, we learned that they are feeding Babadook in their basement and that sometimes it screams back at her like it’s trying to scare her again, but all she needs to do is stood her ground and not be afraid and the Babadook will retreat with its worms.
I think it would have been better if the writers made the Babadook go away when Amelia fought back. But anyway, as they say…
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