The Babadook Movie Psychology

Is it possible to turn into a monster in the blink of an eye? From an audience perspective the movie The Babadook makes all possibilities true. The movie presents a mother by the name of Amelia, who seems to be suffering from depression, also a son Samuel who seems to have very bad behavioral problems. Amelia has not been herself on account of her husband's died in a car crash the day of Samuel's birth as a consequence for the past six almost seven years all she did is mourning the lost of her husband until one night during bedtime, she reads a book about the Babadook.samuel always wakes in the middle of the night with screams talking about bad dreams. The Babadook from that point on terrorized the family until Amelia almost kills Samuel.The …show more content…
Amelia has been depressed so long that she can't even differentiate her psychological episodes from her reality. The night Amelia let Samuel choose the bedtime story the Babadook made his presents known.The Babadook tells Amelia exactly how he will take control of her life in the blink of an eye. The bad dreams Samuel has been having every night increase more and more which makes Amelia even more restless and on edge. He is pleading and begging for his mother's attention and she is so stuck in her self pity that she doesn't want to help her own son. Samuel just wants a real mother and by nature, he figures maybe if I do this it will cause her to do this but he got the opposite result from her. The Babadook could be presenting signs of he is about to be near. Samuel only started to now have dreams, once he started to ask about his father. A major sign of how it might be the Babadook would be the fact of he just started to come around that his birthday is near and that is the anniversary of his father. Samuel is always under her because she is the only protector and with the Babadook possibly trying to harm him she is his go to but he does not know she is actually the Babadook. Amelia in a way is tired of her son and just wishes he would go away or she would be satisfied if she could have her husband and Samuel.They can't leave because the Babadook won't allow them he feeds off the depression caused by this house he grows stronger more and more. She has to be here she is far enough to run away from her family, but close enough to her husband and where everything fell apart for