Painfully obvious in the first 10m what's going on *SPOILERS*
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Goodnight Mommy
xtheconformistx — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 09:37 PM)
My wife and I caught the "twist" (if you can call it that) in the first ten minutes of the movie.
"Lukas isn't really there" is what she said when the mom ignored him at breakfast. I was thinking "man I hope not, how generic" and was watching the movie looking for hints that he really was. But no, the movie was a letdown.
How could anyone watch this and not notice Lukas wasn't there? It's obvious and I don't understand how you could miss it. -
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tannisrootmilkshake — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 01:15 AM)
Why are you assuming that we weren't supposed to figure it out until the end? I was a little perplexed at first by it but after reflecting i think it was completely intentional, i don't think they were necessarily trying to deceive us. I think it's more intelligent than that.
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bowery_boy — 10 years ago(November 18, 2015 09:04 AM)
Anyone who has read / seen "The Other" would carch on.
Exactly. In fact, when I saw the trailer my first thought was this looks like it may be a redux of
The Other
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Then, when I saw the movie I kept trying not to look for the clues that Lucas was dead but they're all there. -
MarshallStax — 10 years ago(November 19, 2015 09:13 AM)
Funny, I had no idea. And I'm the guy who got punched hard in the arm when I saw "The Sixth Sense" on opening night and turned to my wife about an hour in and whispered, "Bruce Willis is a ghost."
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Geeky Randy — 10 years ago(November 20, 2015 07:07 AM)
Do you get a prize?
Book:
http://geeksteronmovies.blogspot.com/p/the-geekster-guide.html
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ZaZeus — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 02:52 PM)
You caught early on that Elias was going to torture his mother and burn her alive due to his ongoing delusion about his dead brother? I sure didn't.
Actually part way through the film I also deduced that he was going to end up killing the mother. It just made sense. Lukas was obviously not alive anymore; the boy was delusional and the mother afraid of him. It's a horror movie, so that's the obvious next step. -
rocko90 — 10 years ago(January 01, 2016 08:02 PM)
Yeah. I knew as soon as she was ignoring him it was that generic twist yet again. I thought that it was going to be a different twist given how obvious it was like we thought Lukas was actually alive but was neglected sort of thing.
The movie was meh overall.
I apologize for any spelling/grammar mistakes. I'm on my phone 90% of the time. -
lavashop — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 06:09 AM)
The horror is not in the revelation that there is no more Lukas.
The horror of the film is to be subjected to torture under someone so close to you.
To be so helpless in helping Elias, who is completely gone over the edge.
Elias brought his world to us and for a while, even the viewers believed it thoroughly.
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DarthSil — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 09:38 AM)
I didn't catch the twist either. The film managed to get me so wrapped up in the other aspect of the story, I barely noticed the obvious.
Good movie.
"A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference."
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TwoFourSixOOne — 9 years ago(July 06, 2016 07:19 PM)
I figured it out during the name game but it didn't make me enjoy the movie less. After figuring it out, I viewed the movie as Mama slowly losing her sanity dealing with the trauma of the accident and dealing with Elias' delusions. The only thing I didn't understand is how the mom didn't get Elias psychiatric help.
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jonvena — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 05:21 PM)
I didn't get why she would let both boys alone while spending a few days on a surgery and recovering from it. Even if only for 24 hours. Would anybody responsible mother let her children, 9 year olds, alone in an out-of-the-way countryside house with no one to babysit or look after them?