NIGHTB***H

Name: NIGHTB***H
Item: NIGHTB***H
Author: Review

"Too Mixed and Quirky"

Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

NIGHTB***H is a quirky movie. Amy Adams plays a stressed, unhappy mother. The Mother becomes exhausted and stressed when it seems as if her young son is unable to sleep through the night or take naps. Meanwhile, the Husband goes on long business trips. Even when he’s home, he offers hardly any help. The Mother finds solace in joining a women’s book club. However, she starts imagining herself turning into a female dog.

Based on a novel by Rachel Yoder, NIGHTB***H is a quirky movie. Many viewers (both women and men) will relate to the Mother’s exhaustion and stress taking care of a young son without much help from the Father. However, the movie has a strong mixed pagan worldview. It includes strong Romantic, politically correct feminist perspectives, some pagan mysticism and a reference to a Hindu goddess. The writer/director mixes this content with some strong moral elements celebrating motherhood and a balanced view of marriage. NIGHTB***H also has some simulated animal deaths, a depicted sex scene and excessive foul language, including at least 21 “f” words. The mixture seems excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong mixed pagan worldview includes strong Romantic, politically correct feminist perspectives and some pagan mysticism and a reference to a Hindu goddess, mixed with some strong moral elements celebrating motherhood and ending with a somewhat biblical view of marriage where the husband and wife, father and mother, eventually work together in a balanced way, reflecting the Bible’s viewpoint more closely;

Foul Language:

At least 34 obscenities (including about 21 “f” words) and five light profanities;

Violence:

Brief strong and light violence such as dead animals appear on woman’s back porch (the movie implies the animals have been killed by a pack of wild dogs), woman kills and buries a rabbit, woman imagines slapping her husband, woman slips and falls on some fingerpaint after she encourages her son to fingerpaint in dining room next to kitchen, movie implies woman as a dog killed the family cat, woman lances a boil on her lower back and touches the wound, and there’s talk of blood, including blood during childbirth;

Sex:

Depicted and implied marital sex (at least one of each);

Nudity:

Woman imagines herself becoming a female dog, starts to grow fur and a tail and having multiple teats (these scenes are surreal and may be imaginary);

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use and references to alcohol;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Woman kicks husband out of the house, and he takes the son too, but they reconcile and accommodate one another in a more balanced partnership (his job took him out of town frequently, and she feels abandoned and overly stressed).

More Detail:

NIGHTB***H is a quirky movie about a stressed-out, unhappy mother played by Amy Adams who seems to get in touch with her primordial animal nature, or is she just having a nervous breakdown? In NIGHTB***H, the mother is dissatisfied with just staying at home taking care of her young son, so the movie has some politically correct feminist perspectives, but, in the end, the movie favors being both an involved mother and a person who has interests having nothing to do with motherhood. It also has excessive foul language, however, including multiple “f” words.

The Mother becomes exhausted and stressed when it seems as if her young son is unable to sleep through the night or take naps. The woman stopped working at an art gallery, where she used her own artistic talents. Also, the Husband goes on long business trips away from home. Also, even when he’s home, he offers little to no help.

The Mother finds some solace in joining a women’s book club. However, she starts imagining herself turning into a female dog. For example, she starts developing fur, a tale and six dog teats. Also, neighborhood and stray dogs get excited whenever they see her outside. At night, they call to her.

Eventually, the Mother and Father agree to a trial separation while she returns to the art gallery for a special project. The Father takes custody of the son.

Will the Mother turn into a dog full time? If not, will she and her Husband reconcile?

Based on a novel by Rachel Yoder, NIGHTB***H is a rather quirky movie. It won’t be to everyone’s taste. However, many viewers (both women and men) will relate to the Mother’s exhaustion and stress taking care of a young son without much help from the Father. Also, some or many viewers will find the movie’s humor funny, in a satirical, ironic sort of way.

However, the movie has a strong mixed pagan worldview. It includes strong Romantic, politically correct feminist perspectives, some pagan mysticism and a reference to a Hindu goddess. The Writer/Director mixes this content with some strong moral elements celebrating motherhood. Also, the movie ends with a somewhat biblical view of marriage. [SPOILERS FOLLOW] Thus, the husband and wife, father and mother, eventually work together in a balanced way, reflecting more closely the Bible’s viewpoint of marriage and family, but couched a bit in the modern feminist perspective, which isn’t biblical. NIGHTB***H also has some simulated animal deaths, a depicted sex scene and excessive foul language, including at least 21 “f” words.

The combination of everything seems excessive and unacceptable.