dEscape completely inside postnatal depression and psychosis, this horror film blends hallucinations, premonitions, memories and flashbacks. Losing in storytelling accuracy makes up for what they make up for with desperate imprisonment within one new mother's headspace.
As soon as she gets home, Meredith (Emily Hampshire) rubs her own birth discharge from the floor. Her husband, Jared (Francois Arnaud), is unexpectedly pleased with her fatherhood, but her new role is charging at an existential level. As his son Alex is unsettling in her hands, Jared pushes her to take care of the house while busy expressing milk, and instead of dealing with the burning meal, she uses a smoke detector. I'll break it. “It's better to accept that you need to give it a try. You need to give it a try rather than feel embarrassed,” says Meredith's therapist of her fiery, maternal affection. But by the time she sees her vision of the crib is full of blood, she feels like she needs a much more regular session until she sees Alex's vision as a young boy .
Moms never overcome the important stumbling blocks that embrace many high fears. There is a clear, unanswered psychological explanation that castrates the paranormal aspect of the film. But after a crucial and horrifying incident, debutant director Adam O'Brien effectively doubles by dropping us deep into that spirit and pulling up the ladder. Confined in a house, photographed in pale styg tints, Meredith also appears more and more phantom, and she is to Myasma, an attempt at guilt, self-justification, self-stage redemption through her son's illusion It's left.
These symptoms are not very original. In particular, she is a girl with a ring-like style that looks like rank, with Alex in the shadows. And when we seal us in Meredith's suffering, cracks appear in the walls and water spurts onto the floor, so there is no specific destination other than the general collapse. If the film is frustratingly vague as a mix of reality, it's definitely a newborn nightmare that envelops you in that touch embrace.
