Why did the mother act how she did?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Goodnight Mommy
Kingston26 — 10 years ago(March 05, 2016 10:00 AM)
First of all, if the idea that his mother was an imposter was all imagined in his head, why was she acting like such an evil bitch when she got home? Just because she got surgery?
Also she could've helped herself more when she was being tied up -
Ringworm7 — 9 years ago(May 10, 2016 12:16 PM)
One son dies (drowns), she and her husband separate, and she's a tv presenter who thinks plastic surgery will help her career, maybe her whole life. She's on quite a lot of meds (dropped under the bed, remember?) so how many are pills for post surgical pain? Those would keep anyone feeling flat, sleeping all day and night, and fairly non-responsive. Also, what mother could easily handle her only child not knowing his own mother?
Lukas is consistently the slightly taller twin, and is shown burning a bug with a magnifier. I think there are plenty of signs to show he's not the "good twin," but, Elias always carries out the acts "Lukas" suggests. Just as he likely spoke for his brother in life, it's common for one twin to be shy and the other to speak up for both. But why does Elias so readily go along with his twin's torturous ideas?
I just watched the film again and a second viewing, knowing the plot, is pretty amazing. In the end, when the mom says Elias isn't responsible for Lukas having died, I wondered if many be Elias really WAS responsible - did Lukas hurt him in life, like he seemed to want to hurt his mother so badly? Or is it all coming from Elias? Elias is more than a little twisted, and we don't know if Lukas is the bad twin after all, he could just be using Lukas as an excuse to act badly. -
MariX2 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 04:24 PM)
Because they need it to stretch the film for 90 minutes. Seriously all she needed to to was sit down and have a conversation with her son "Your brother is dead, but I'm still here for you. You need to accept it and let him go" But no, let's be cryptic as beep and beat around the bush for days until the kid snaps and burns down the house.
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cynmoss — 9 years ago(November 01, 2016 12:32 PM)
Because they need it to stretch the film for 90 minutes. Seriously all she needed to to was sit down and have a conversation with her son "Your brother is dead, but I'm still here for you. You need to accept it and let him go" But no, let's be cryptic as beep and beat around the bush for days until the kid snaps and burns down the house.
First off, she needed to get her son psychiatric help. But also, the cryptic stuff is because she herself is beep in the head after Lukas' death and the divorce. Not defending it, but explaining it.
The kid(s) are always asking where there their mom went. Well the fun loving mom they remember "died" the moment Lukas actually died. -
Globus871 — 9 years ago(November 07, 2016 10:27 AM)
She's deeply insecure (about her looks), drugged up (painkillers + something else?), emotionally damaged (divorce + dead of son), strangely submissive towards her domineering son, and probably just beep tired of it all to top it off.
I think she just wanted to put her foot down at the very start of the movie after entertaining Elias' delusions for a while, he needed to get over the dead of Lukas and finally face reality. Unfortunately she handled it pretty badly and things kinda' derailed from there.