Mama (Movie)
2013│Horror, Mystery
This was a good movie and I totally enjoyed watching it! Tho that ending! 😂 Wtf was that ending right? I thought it was gonna end when Mama got her baby's body but no way she crushed the skull and threw it away 💀😭 like waaaaaat
That was so fucking shocking lmao 😂 and then she took Lily with her! I really didn't expect that end. After watching the movie, I ran to reddit to read some explanations about the ending and wow, there were some really good ones there! I'm gonna copy paste them down below 👇🏻 why? Just cause I want to lol 😂, and because I really liked them and they make sense!
I also adopted the theory that Lily died way before they were rescued. I would love to see a time line thesis for the drawings on the cabin walls. I looked like at one point lilly was attacked by Rabid raccoons, then the raccoons were killed by probably mama but Lilly had already been bitten. It shows her later in the drawings throwing up blood, then laying on the ground and a tear on Victoria's face. I really think Lily was already gone, and mama was keeping her animated for Victoria's sake. Lily was the link that brought mama to the new house. Either in her by possession or connected by some ghastly bond.
The ghost can't move on until it rights the wrong, we go into the finale expecting that it just needs the remains of its baby and all will be fine, but when Lily cries out to Mama just before that happens, we see that Mama's purpose has moved beyond what happened in the 1800s, Lily is her baby now. Victoria, who had some attachment to reality going into their abandonment in the woods, was able to break away from Mama, but Lily was just broken, which is the true tragedy of the movie.
There's obviously a parallel there with her Dad/Uncle, the former being someone who broke from reality and did a horrible thing, the latter being a good balanced father figure. It's not a coincidence that they're both played by the same actor.
Her spirit or essence seems to have transferred to the moth that lands on Victoria, becoming one with the only thing she's ever understood. The thread weaves itself through the entire movie, she never integrates: sleeping under the bed, sleeping outside, eating bugs, eating on the floor, running around like a primal beast, so she "goes home." Which is pretty dark for a mainstream horror film, especially without taking it where most would, that she's an evil kid, so it makes it okay if she dies, or that she makes some kind of heroic sacrifice. No, here, she's just a normal little girl whose life was ruined before it began.
