"Babadook"Leather Bookmark, mefluency t1_iwgb7er wrote
Reply to comment by Bronsteins-Panzerzug in "Babadook"Leather Bookmark, me by kswades
No, a metaphor for unprocessed trauma. The ending where she accepts the Babadook, keeps it in the basement and feeds it, the line «you can’t get rid of the Babadook,» all of it presents as a metaphor for the process of working through trauma and grief. In the end, she accepts the darkness of her trauma as a part of herself.
Bronsteins-Panzerzug t1_iwgd4b0 wrote
None of the things you just said contradict or diminish the mental illness interpretation.
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GoddamnJiveTurkey t1_iwgechw wrote
You can’t get rid of it, but you can learn to tame it. And it’ll flare up, act angry, try to take over your life again, but you learn to put it back in that basement time after time.
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