the film.

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Goodnight Mommy

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jonvena — 9 years ago(July 08, 2016 05:06 PM)

the film.
It's almost like a shameless ripoff of "The Other". Not a surprise to me. Underwhelming ending and a complete deception. If they wanted to surprise the more seasoned audience who has greater experience watching thousands of movies and reading about them, they should have inverted the expectations and not have remade The Other with less creepiness and weirdness. Total flop. The torture scenes don't make up for the lack of imagination and originality.

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LexKim — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 06:58 AM)

Harsh summary but I agree. Ultimately it was disappointing. But few scenes were worth the trouble for myself.

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Missy_Dargentau — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:19 AM)

The twist is - everyone assumes, like the movie "The Other" - that
Lukas is dead - but in reality the boys are alive, and the twist is that the Mother is dead, and she's in the cave. Elias can't accept that she's dead, and fantasizes that she's alive and Lukas tries to get him to see the light. The boys successfully keep her death a secret until the fire. (See the delivery man stocking the freezer, and the Red Cross visit) - at the end, after the fire, both boys are taken into shelter.

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Giraffe_Monster — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:46 AM)

Lolno.
Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM?

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MariX2 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 04:01 PM)

You're completely ignoring the fact the priest talks with the mother when he takes Elias back home, but no one EVER talks or interacts with Lukas. So no, the mother is alive and Lukas is the one who died.

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SaliceMcD — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 02:00 PM)

And we see her spirit/ghost walk past the oblivious firefighters in the penultimate scene.