![]() The Babadook posts up in Amelia and Sam’s basement, where Amelia feeds it every day.Ĭritical interpretations of The Babadook theorize that the Babadook is actually a symbol of Amelia’s grief. While Sam watches her, Amelia goes through stages like denial, anger, bargaining, and depression in battling the Babadook, before finally coming to acceptance of the idea that the Babadook, like grief, will never truly go away.īut that interpretation doesn’t at all explain why the Babadook is queer. ![]() One of the earliest, most popular queer readings of The Babadook surfaced in October 2016, when Tumblr user Ianstagram posted a thought complaint: “Whenever someone says the Babadook isn’t openly gay it’s like? Did you even watch the movie?” He added on December 13, “ Carol (2015), unlike The Babadook, was not a gay movie and was about a scary monster bothering a blonde, stressed-out mom.” To date, the post has received over 91,000 likes and reblogs.Ī couple of months later, BuzzFeed’s Ryan Broderick posted a somewhat mocking appraisal of Tumblr’s “Babadiscourse” on Twitter. “It may be ‘just a movie’ to you, but to the LGBT community, the Babadook is a symbol of our journey.” #Beyonce gay pride gif movieīut Ianstagram defended his reading: “A movie about a gay man who just wants to live his life in a small Australian suburb?” he wrote.
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