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The Babadook Movie Psychology

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The babadook is a dark figure that consumes Amelia with an extreme case of aggravated depression. The movie begins as Amelia, relives a concurrent nightmare that happened five - almost six - years ago. Amelia and her husband tending to their unborn son’s fidgeting attempt to find his escape from his mother. As her husband drives to the hospital and she struggles in the passenger's seat. As the two are rushing to the hospital bright lights cast over the car and the impact of an opposing car kills her husband but spares her and her newborn son. Amelia’s son, Samuel, saves her from her nightmare by waking her but she does not appreciate this or her son. Since Samuel’s birth happened to fall on the day that her husband was brutally killed in an …show more content…

The pain and suffering she experience is in the form of aggravated depression, and she allowed this depression in grow inside her by not dealing with it properly. Instead of accepting and acknowledging her pains from her husband's death, she buries it. She takes all of his things that belonged to him locks it in the basement, allowing not even Samuel to know much about his father. As a result of her burying her pains and his things, she does not have the ability to properly deal with her pains and it shows out in unhealthy ways. Her and Samuel do not have a loving mother to son bond, or any real relationship for that matter. She does not communicate passed a basic level, she doesn’t verbally or physically initiate any expressions of love, and she isolates him from other children. Amelia blames her son Samuel, helpless to being born, for the death of her husband. She yells at Samuel, telling him, “You don’t know how many times I wish it was you that died not him”. Her aggravation escalates here at this moment. This is the first time Amelia shows her true feelings to her son in the movie, and it expresses the burden that she feels he carries on

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