Her targets are the remnants of a family, scarred by trauma and scattered to the wind.
Sophie (Maria Bello) is a beleaguered mother wrestling with mental illness.
Her young son Martin (Gabriel Bateman) trying to get through childhood with no reliable parental figure.
Credit: Ron Batzdorff
LikeThe Babadook,Lights Outtries to blur the lines between monstrosity and mental illness.
Without spoiling anything, Dianas supervillain origin involves Sophies history at a mental institution.
and confronts the way our society too often demonizes mental health.
Unfortunately, the movies ending does not do this storyline justice.
The final physical sensation is not terror or relief, but disgust.B-
