[REVIEW FILM] Ghost Book (The Babadook): Subconscious or evil
The Book of Babies (The Babadook) made in 2014 is a film that brings us back to childhood, the nights sleeping alone in the dark space, imagining the father was hiding somewhere, afraid to pull the blanket. Cover your head whenever any noise comes out. So the sincere advice of Nextphim when reviewing movies is that you do not go to see this movie alone, but if you can not find anyone to accompany, you should prepare adequate corn juice, to distract fear.
The Babadook: Subconscious or evil
I watch, I study, I write about a lot of different genres of film, the most popular are romantic or action films, criminals or academic dramas because basically there are many such films. things to exploit and a lot of humane aspects to develop points, develop articles.
Movie poster Ghost book in like a magic book
But actually I like and often watch horror movies and I am sure those famous horror movies are picky, from light to heavy and terrible, I see them, but I don't write about them much because My pre-viewing goal is to entertain, not to use all the stored knowledge from the brain and calories to analyze or take notes.
And even though I've watched a lot of these horror movies, the only three that will remind me of old age are The Shinning, Sixth Sense and the worst of all is The Babadook. Up to now, it has been 5 years since I watched The Babadook, but I still did not dare to watch it again, until I was writing this line, the feeling that it used to rush back made me feel cold back.
The Babadook sounds very simple when you only hear this is a mother, a widow, raising a son in a haunted house, not outstanding or special, a very motif Old to the horror film, it's like a prepared formula so that when we hear about it, we know right away it's a horror movie.
But it's not as simple as that, the movie's highlights are like a warm-up start before director Jennifer Kent takes us into her definition of "horror," and this makes me despise The Babadook because sometimes I thought, simply, that a ghost-shaped book is scary! The house is haunted, then nothing is scary!
So I watched it at home alone and was haunted for the next 5 years not daring to open it again. The Book of Ghost (The Babadook) is enveloped in dull darkness, as evidenced by Kent's intention to turn the film color into black and white because she was influenced by old films.
With a limited budget, Jennifer Kent did not use too much of the superior skills, but instead, she filmed with 32mm lenses and switched to 14mm, tricks like fast and slow motion or even had stop motion to express the expressive, thoughtful changes of the mother Amelia (played by Essie Davis) and Samuel (played by Noah Wiseman) in the most realistic way and how often the monster is filmed in the film. very little but always pushes us to the climax of fear by psychological pressure.
The Babadook did one thing that most other horror movies couldn't do, which made the audience sympathize with the character, especially for Amelia's mother when she suffered from depression. born because the day Samuel was born was the day she lost the man of her life. With the early episodes of the film we always see between the two main characters with a certain mental distance, expressed through the scene of eating and drinking, the driving scene of the Amelia mother and daughter ...
The depression of sex life as well as the pressure to raise children also made Amelia suppressed and ruined by nobody else but herself. Her thin face, pale, sickly body, with hallucinations made it impossible to know whether the demon had chosen her mother or herself, or that Amelia herself had imagined it because of the mental wounds she could not overcome.
This is a film that clarifies the most spiritual issue I've ever seen when everything is blurry, when Amelia's positive energy is exhausted by herself and the passive reasons of the past and the devil have multiplied. that chance borrowed her body, or was it because Amelia herself was obsessed with herself, the demon deep within herself.
The content is very humane when it helps to understand and empathize with women in today's society when postpartum depression is increasingly common. This horror movie will not have the classic scare that makes you vomit, or scream freely because The Babadook exploits the fear hidden deep in each person's subconscious, to the point that we only see the monster through the the book page or its shadow, but The Babadook has become one of the best horror movies of recent years. And what are those pains, fears? Fear of loneliness, fear of pressure, fear of darkness, ... these are the fears that make our minds lose their inherent stability.
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