Spoiler alert- if you haven't seen Tully don't read on! But if you have, what did you think?
I just watched it- with my new baby beside me (in several sittings, pause, rewind etc).
I thought they depicted those early days really well- the feeding, the nappies, the sleepless nights. Much more realistic than a lot of Hollywood movies! But I've a few thoughts and bear with me as I'm fairly sleep deprived myself...
So Tully is imaginary, brought on by sleep deprivation and possible pnd?
- Every night Marlo leaves the newborn downstairs- but shouldn't the baby be in the room with them??
- If 'Tully' wasn't really bringing the baby up to her every night, did she actually feed the baby at all? Was she going up and down the stairs all night?
- Who cleaned the house and made the muffins? If Marlo did it, when?
- How is her husband able to watch her crumbling with absolute exhaustion and do nothing at all to help? How does she let him away with it and never even ask?
- She says it's ages since they've had sex but if the baby is so new would she not be in too much pain anyway?
- Why did she take her car on a night out drinking? (they seem to do this in every American movie). I know she was severely sleep deprived but it just seemed like something she was used to doing
- Everyone keeps saying her son is 'quirky' but none of them seem to realise it's autism or something similar- neither parents, teachers or any of their friends