![]() ![]() LaTorre looks at Snook with large expressive eyes that shift from confused and scared when she’s inexplicably bleeding to burning with rage when she screams that she’s actually Alice. Snook’s attention and care for LaTorre’s Mia are deeply felt, and their bond is evident from the first scene when the mother wakes up her daughter with a birthday gift. Her calm, collected demeanor quickly erodes in the face of uncertainty and stress. She’s attentive and affectionate in ways many of us haven’t seen her. In a marvelous departure from her best-known role as Shiv Roy in “Succession,” Snook brings her character a motherly sense of care and duty. When Mia’s problems escalate, she first tries to be the strong parent doing what’s right for her child, but then, she starts to hurt herself in the process and by extension, hurts Mia. And then there’s her mother, an ominous figure also losing her memories to dementia. Sarah is also dealing with the death of her dad, his things are still piled up in her garage, still to be sorted through. She’s divorced and co-parenting with her ex-husband, Pete ( Damon Herriman), who has moved on and is starting a new family of his own. In setting up Sarah’s narrative, Kent shows the audience how much Sarah’s been pushed to the brink even before anything unexplained begins. ![]() Rabbit is not the only troubling thing in Hannah Kent’s script. The film’s conflict is centered between mother Sarah, and daughter Mia, but it also includes a thorny relationship with Sarah’s mother, Joan ( Greta Scacchi), creating a cycle of guilt from childhood sins and feeling like she’s not doing enough for her kid. When Sarah tries to get rid of Rabbit, it bites her, the first of many injuries she will incur as she spirals over memories of her missing sister, her estranged mother, and her recently departed father. The bunny, which she names Rabbit, ominously hops around the house, a harbinger of the bad things still to come. First, Mia shows up with a white fluffy rabbit and quickly becomes obsessed with it, to the point where she begins wearing a self-made pink rabbit mask. “The B in LGBT stands for Babadook,” another user responded.Reid’s ghost story uses innocuous objects to emphasize the film’s sense of unease. In December, a screenshot was posted to Tumblr showing The Babadook listed prominently among “LGBT Movies” on Netflix – more likely to be a doctored image indicative of the meme’s gaining momentum, than a categorisation error. “It may be ‘just a movie’ to you but to the LGBT community the Babadook is a symbol of our journey.” ![]() “A movie about a gay man who just wants to live his life in a small Australian suburb?” replied the original poster, “ianstagram”, from Boston. The post drew close to 100,000 responses – a jokey back-and-forth about the deeper meanings of Jennifer Kent’s 2014 independent film that prompted one user to complain it was “JUST A MOVIE.” “Gay Babadook” was born when a somewhat ironic post to Tumblr in October went viral: “Whenever someone says the Babadook isn’t openly gay it’s like? Did you even watch the movie?” Current favorite meme is the lgbt community insisting that the babadook is a gay icon /jetZomtDzd- jenna June 11, 2017 ![]()
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