In the end, it is locked away with her husband's things-still a part of their family, but something that is openly acknowledged and treated. As Samuel becomes more disruptive, burdensome and irritating, the Babadook becomes more and more violent-it also becomes more obvious that it's a part of Amelia. This is an ugly reality that Amelia cannot come to terms with so it becomes a part of her unconscious-locked away and separate from her conscious self. Amelia has always associated Samuel with the death of her husband and obviously suffers greatly from postpartum depression.
Amelia's husband was killed while driving her to the hospital to give birth to Samuel. But why? Let's look at a Jungian interpretation of the film, that looks at the Babadook as "the shadow" of Amelia's (Essie Davis) self. There have been a number of interpretations that point to the mother as the creator of The Babadook, which is probably bang on. Via Much has been made about the meaning behind The Babadook.
11 Funny Games – Critique Of Movie Violence Even though the ending was changed because test audiences didn’t like it, it is however, interesting to watch the movie with this notion in mind. This would have been hinted at in the original ending (that the infected are social beings-not just crazed vampires). They fear Smith because he has been killing them unjustly without any signs of stopping. Many of the "vampires" that he has killed were actually adapting to the disease, able to walk in the sunlight for short periods of time and live as part of an established civilization. Rather than pass along a cure for the vampire disease and leave everything looking positive for the future, the underlying message in I Am Legend is that the hero ( Will Smith) is actually potentially a villain. The original ending was much closer to books in spirit, which is where the deeper meaning comes from. Via This one is a little unfair because the movie didn't exactly have a deeper meaning, though it was originally supposed to. Here are 15 movies with a much deeper meaning than you thought. We should mention here that there are spoilers, like a lot of them, so skip over a movie if you still plan on watching it for the first time. Perhaps these interpretations explain something that didn’t make sense, give meaning to something that seemed, at first, meaningless or even make a silly concept into a potent one. Yet, the alternate meanings might show that the films are much more important than we first thought. Their surface meanings were enough to make them box-office successes. Every one of these movies were popular in their day. They are just new angles that you can explore the next time you watch these films. These multiple interpretations don't need to compete with each other. Some of them are just without allegory, but we've found it anyway. In some of the films on this list, the surface meanings made them somewhat unsatisfactory. Maybe it will give you a new appreciation for some of the films on the list.
Such allegory allows viewers the chance to go back and watch the film again under a new lens. These deeper meanings are not always "correct", if there is even such a thing, but they are interpretations that have enough supporting evidence that they seem plausible.
There are, however, films that appear to be one thing on the surface, but, somewhere down below, they actually mean something altogether different. We don't always want to have to completely dissect a movie to fully understand it. The vast majority of the time, audiences use movies as an escape from the rigors of everyday life. It's not an insult to say that most movies are what they appear they are.