What is it about imbeciles that find puddles of mud so compelling?

Okay, so if you understood the film than your assertion that it "doesn't make sense" is kinda contradictory, don't you think?

The film is about a woman losing her mind. Her precious baby fell out of a window because she was too busy *beep* Deep down she blames her husband (the one that was she was having sex with, William Defoe). Both in grief, they decide to go to their summer home where they spent a few summers with their baby son. Little do they know, isolation would be their downfall. they both to a degree hallucinate- but the wife completely goes bonkers. Not just the isolation- but also her husbands snide "psychotherapy"- (he works as a therapist/psychologist).

Eventually- she begins to view him as a monster - an antichrist so to speak. Deep down- he knows she feels this way. He just understands that they must move on.

By the end she finally loses it and starts trying to kill him. He reminds her of insanity and the role it has played in history (witches). There's some other stuff /symbology thrown in around here (crow under the hill / was what she actually heard- not their son -last time they were here). The film starts to hint that the land they are on is actually "cursed". However - this could all be within the couples psychosis- I mean by this point HE is in extreme pain and hallucinating - seeing foxes deer and crows appear and even speak. He finally manages to kill her- and burn her body. At this point the film shows the land transposed with a burial sight. While walking away through the woods - he sees a bunch of blurry faces approach him - hinting that his wife fell into the curse of the land- and that he will pay. Again, this could all be a near death hallucination.

So on paper it seems much more like a horror film but the way it was put together was psychological. We get perspectives of the couple -whom are going insane- which throws a lot of people off. She was a fine mother - even though she blamed herself - always thinking about that time her baby was crying and she couldn't find him (a crow was under the hill--- PS- it was the same damn crow- dormant for a year). So film is ambiguous in terms of its conclusion. Purposely.

It is certainly a depressing movie- one could say over the top ( I would say the blood ejaculating was unnecessary). But it is pretty well acted and put together in an interesting way. It does make sense. It does have a story. 7/10