The Babadook Opening Scene Analysis

The Babadook is a truly scary horror movie from 2014 directed by Jennifer Kent. The “Babadook” is a scary boogie man that a single mother just cannot seem to shake. At one point in the film the mother, Amelia played by Essie Davis, goes to the police station because she believes someone is stalking her. She, however tells the police at the station that she burned the book and they say they cannot do anything about it because she burned the evidence. She turns and sees clothing arranged in a way that looks like the ‘ Babadook’ in the police station and runs frantically out of the door. This scene is very important to the plot because it helps carry the movie through the rising action. The scene helps to develop Amelia's crazy. Amelia is going through a very hard point in her life where all the giraffe she has experienced is catching up to her.
Much of the point of view of the scene is indirect-subjective, we never see through Almelias eyes until almost the very end of the scene. Towards the end of the scene we see through Amelia's eyes and this makes the scene change to subjective point of view. When …show more content…
In this scene, Amelia very much believes she and her son are being stalked by a crazy person the expressions and reaction to the deputies when they do not believe her help to sell this also. The younger deputies in the scene come off as rude. They laugh at Essie Davis and repel the audience, adding to the already growing empathy in the scene for Amelia. The main officer in the scene however; is not rude to Amelia, giving him a little more acceptance than the other two deputies but, the audience still does not like the main deputy in the scene because he did not help the struggling, panic stricken mother the officer tells her there is nothing they can do nicely, never once being rude to