Last Monday I went to see the movie Mama, starring Jessica Chastain with black hair and Nikolaj Coster Waldau, who proves to be just as handsome and intrepid as he is in Game of Thrones, though slightly less incestuous. Without giving anything away, Mama is about a dead lady (“Mama”), who connects with her surrogate children via vagina-shaped holes in the wall. A hole that produce many black moths.
Mama is produced by Guillermo del Toro, the guy who brought us Pan’s Labyrinth, so you can expect elements of fantasy and tenderness, which make the film moving and thought provoking as well as frightening. Aesthetically and story-wise, imagine something along the lines of Pan’s Labyrinth meets Hansel and Gretel meets The Orphan meets The Ring, and you have Mama. Like most horror movies, Mama loses a lot of steam once you get a good, long look at Mama, herself. But in this case, I felt like the deflation was more due to Mama’s humanity than it was to bad make-up or cartoonist special effects. By the time we finally see Mama, we understand her — we feel bad for her — and empathy will make you less afraid of anybody.
Finally someone got the ghost story right!! a tense of drawing up love or not to loved this movie. It hit the spot, the I need a ghost story that totally creeps me out spot. Mama is more ambitious by far: It makes sure viewers are emotionally committed even when they aren’t clutching their armrests or covering their eyes. The scenes scared on and on. The best part of the film is the ending, but it’s not worth the wait. However, the acting done by the two little girls in the film is far from what’s expected. They even “out act” all the adults in the film, by far. The movie would have been better if it wasn’t for the bad producing and directing.
Mama is dramatic yet scary in the sense that you can make yourself goosebumps in every scenes. But there is something wrong in the story line upon you reach the ending. Mama wants to get the two children and made her companion forever as the children jump to the cliff where Mama and her child jumped. The loophole is, if that was her intention why she need to spend 5 years just to do it? Though, she has all the time to do it. The ending is good but there is a question mark that makes you think. Where the movie really stumbles and falls is the ending. It just didn’t make much sense to me. I understand the trend lately is for an unhappy ending or an unexpected twist, but there never conquer good moment. Instead it was a bit of a let down. Mama was a nice slow build up of a classic ghost story up until the last ten minutes of the film.
If you like creepy little kids that scurry around like feral little monsters popping up unexpectedly or overprotective ghosts seeking closure, you just might enjoy Mama. It comes across as an effective and creepy thriller. Well, when it comes to scary and goosebumps moment, I highly recommend this movie. Though the story line makes a fall substance.
My analysis comes like this:
Sad ending because Mama gets the other child
Craving for more substance that support the story
Anger that makes Mama brutal to others
Rightful scenes that makes real man scream and made its eyes close
Yes, this movie is worth to watch…