The emotional distance is reinforced again by physical distance between the two, when Samuel has a bad dream and turns to his mother for comfort only for her to lie on the opposite side of the bed, still without any contact towards him. The only contact the two have within the first few minutes of the film is within a sequence where Samuel is terrified of 'monsters' in his bedroom and therefore Amelia has to check in the closet and under the bed for them, he is shown to be clinging to her, however she does not touch him back. ... The colour theme throughout the movie plays a larg...

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