This movie made NO SENSE! :(

Nothing you said in your complains mean the movie makes no sense. Reasons you didn't care for it and problems with the film itself, yes, but no reasons why it made no sense. Everything is spelled out at the end.

Sophia was most likely a figment of her imagination. Even if she were real, the Sophie at the end is clearly not real. What's so hard to understand?

The father's eye would be a continuity error, not a reason that the movie "makes no sense."

I actually thought they had a weird relationship and I mentioned in another post that I thought his acting was bad when the movie was starting out, but am now leaning toward the fact that it was weird because of what we eventually learn at the end of the movie. Either way, not giving enough hints to the endgame again isn't a reason why a movie would make no sense.

You have honestly never seen anything about people being abused or having traumatic experiences, real or fictional? People push things into the back of their mind and subconsciously forget about them. People literally go insane due to things happening to them. People experience a wide variety of symptoms if they fall prey to PTSD after a traumatic experience. Clearly she was the one doing everything in the movie and clearly a lot of stuff that we/she saw was all in her head. Why is a random guy climbing into the back of the car any different from the random little "ghost" girl?

Ok, when people suffer traumatic events, especially at a really young age, the brain sometimes tries to repress those memories; the brain stores them somewhere that can't be easily accessed and therefore can't be remembered. This does not mean that the person does not suffer from the traumatic evdnts. In some cases these repressed memories are brought out by the victim, but the victim doesn't realize it. This creates a split personality disorder. Sophia wasn't a figment of Sarah's imagination; Sophia was Sarah's memory of the trauma from her childhood. At the end when Sarah cuts Sophia and the cut appears on Sarahs hand is the moment that Sarah as herself finally remembers and comes to terms with the abuse.
You should read/watch Sybil. It's based on a true story and the book was actually written by the doctor herself. It's about a girl who developed a massive amount of different personalities (16 I think) due to sever child abuse (which is explicitly described in the book). The doctor uses hypnotherapy as a tool to help "Sybil" come to terms with her past and to get rid of the other personalities.

people having lots of questions or interpretations of what went on does not mean the film makers "didn't do their job right" some of the best movies end with unanswered questions that are up to the audience to think about and discuss or argue about. i get really sick of people who think they were ripped off or something because the ending of a movie is open for questions. if you feel that way, you should only go to "romantic comedies" and such, that way you know it's gonna be simple and shallow and, most importantly...the same as the last few movies you saw

What made Sarah forgetful? Why didn't she remember that they had abused her when she was young

OK I agree with the OP to some extent. Why was her father 'out to get her' from the start, and all of a sudden?!
Its like one minute they're packing up the house, the next he vanishes. Then did he attack her? Or did she only imagine they did, and she hit them both?
I kept waiting for the big twist, like they were "Gaslighting' her, or that she was completely crazy. But no real twist came, so he abused her?!
And the uncle knew? But everything was told in such a mishmash way that you never get to know or even care about the characters. The film spent way too much time following the lead character around doing nothing, and not nearly enough with CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. There's almost no development between father & daughter.

An atmospheric film with a lot of potential, but I didn't care for it at all.


"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

I honestly thought it was a good movie. Good movies should leave you with questions for you to use your imagination to figure out. Its just a theory, but i think she might be hallucinating/ going crazy because of breathing in the mold they found from early on in the film. her father said he didnt want her breathing it in, then went off to find if the mold spread to any other part of the house. there was a scene toward the end where she was in a room with mold covering all the walls/ceiling too. That, plus remembering all the old memories she repressed caused her to flip out and start seeing things. just a theory, but that might be why the ending seemed so disjointed. i agree though that they didn't do a good job at making a lot of stuff at the ending very clear

That's one of the points the movie is trying to make.

On the surface you see a happy father and daughter relationship, when in fact her father has been doing horrible things to her. After all, her father doesn't look like the stereotypical abuser: drunk, bellowing, and full of rage. He puts on a good facade of being a normal caring father, which is why he has gotten away with the abuse for so long.

And Sara's feelings are conflicted. As much as she hates him for doing those things to her, she loves him because he's her father, and she wants to be a good daughter. So she pretends along with him, because she loves him and she thinks she is partly to blame, that if she were a better daughter, none of it would be happening.

You really need to try to pay attention to what you're watching. I'm guessing you were daydreaming about your new shoes while pretending to watch.