Goodnight Mommy (2014) German
A good psychological thriller. Kids when they are young , they feel so secure and protected while they are with their parents. Even a slight changes in parents behavior can greatly impact the kids as they are more delicate and fragile at their young age. Such cases can even damage these kids behavior totally even without them-self realizing whats good and whats not. They judgement becomes spontaneous and they stop caring about anything else then the present. This movie is exactly that , two twin kids move to their mother's residence which is in a isolated terrain. She is a divorce and her face is completely masked as she is currently going through reconstructive face surgery because of a accident. This divorce and the accident had a great impact on her mentally where her behavior with kids drastically changes day by day. These twins not able to take these behavior changes of their mom and they start to suspect their true identity that she is not her real mother. This slowly brings a evil thoughts within the kids and they escalate these to next level by strangling and torturing her in an attempt to get truth out of her about their real mom. This poor women who is the real mother for these kids struggle to make them understand and did she succeed in that , whats her fate in-stake goes the rest part. Movie gets intense at second half and plot is not so tense or with great surprise but still the script definitely keeps one engaged till the end. At same time when we start feeling sympathy for the mother in this film , our spine gets shivering on the extent these disturbed kids go without any remorse or repentance. Had similar impact before while watching another Romanian movie Them (2006) Ils , but this movie is good too. Deserves a one time watch for sure.
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