The recent Australian horror movie The Babadook has gotten a lot of praise from critics for being such a great horrific film, and using a real, relatable story, rather than a series of killings and cheap jump scares. But many viewers mention how horribly the boy in the story behaves, and how much he's driving his mother crazy with his hyperactivity, his aggressiveness, and his uncontrollability. And really, isn't that what Ritalin is for?
Normally I'm pretty much against using dangerous addictive amphetamines on children just because they're a bit energetic, but the kid in this film is a real problem child, and it's ruining his mother's life, and stripping away her sanity. And this kid is a pretty good candidate for Ritalin treatment. And so I thought this movie might make for a fun ad for Ritalin, like so:
We'd see a short trailer edited together of this kid acting in a very annoying, atrocious, disobedient, abusive manner (as he does at different points in the film), and the mother is at the end of her rope. And then she sees the pop-up children's book The Babadook, and she opens it, and the book shows scenes that mirror her home life with her son, only in this case, the Babadook (looking a bit more like a pediatrician, but still wearing that black top hat) appears holding a bottle of Ritalin, rather than encouraging her to kill her son and then herself. And the rest of the book shows her and her son having a happy life together. And so she gets Ritalin for her son, and then her son is a perfect model of a well-adjusted kid.
