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Isn't this every mother's nightmare? (Potential spoilers!)


I have seen this film multiple times, and every time I get to the scene where she finally finds her son and realises she unintentionally killed him, just because she wasn't quick enough to realise the game he wanted to play with her, it just gets to me on a totally other level than other films.

I don't want to go in to the Whole "was it real or not"- thing, because the point is, it doesn't really matter. What matters is, a mother loses her child, and goes totally, tragically crazy and kills herself when she realises she killed him without knowing it until she found him.

Which brings me to the title of the thread. I don't have children yet, but my youngest Brother is 6, and I know I would be heartbroken beyond belief if I accidentally harmed him in any way. So those of you who have children, does it get to you that this could, in fact, happen to any parent? The "accidentally doing harm to your child"-part I mean.

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Yes

This movie haunted me so much I watched it a second time.

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I wish I hadnt heard of this movie at all :( I even couldnt finish watching it and read about the ending in wikipedia...which totally torn me into pieces. Cant make myself feel right and I really need to discuss it with somebody as I know things like these, I mean accidents...they do happen in reality and I just cant imagine how parents cope with...their grief.
The saddest movie I know... :(

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After I watched this movie for the first time, I actually couldn't sleep that night. Such a powerful movie and to this day is one of my favourites.

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Yes, to me this movie is the saddest of the three del Toro films. I often have nightmares that one of my kids is missing. And to discover at the end that you yourself had trapped your son and unwittingly killed him.... She was glad to OD I think. It's so awful.

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