A reinterpretation of a typical western thriller

Rickey 2022-01-25 08:06:39

The protagonist in this film, a character with multiple social roles such as "father/husband/son", started a series of self-recognition processes in the room 1408. Through this process, he reached a certain level The liberation of the story is such a story. Or the story behind the story is like this, the skeleton of the story is like this.

And Stephen King and the screenwriter and director, are such an ordinary story. Deconstruction, reconstruction with surreal methods, giving ghosts, gods and fantasy as flesh and blood into the skeleton of ordinary stories, and interpreting them.
So what we see, the skin of the story that we touch spiritually, is what it looks like now.- -A horror/thriller film.

After the identification, I personally think it is worth watching. It belongs to a typical western thriller writer. As a first-person narrative perspective, generally speaking, films that intend to explore deep feelings will be like this. This film does not involve There are too many things in the ideological field, and some emotional things, such as father-daughter love, father-son love, the relationship between the protagonist and his wife, etc., have not been discussed in depth, and there are no religious things. God, heaven and hell are not designed. In-depth discussion and I can feel that the director did not intend to delve into the film in terms of the quality of sound effects. It is still trying to stimulate the senses. At the end of the film, there is a superfluous appearance of the protagonist being burned. It can be characterized as a pure commercial film. There is not much debate about commercial films. The so-called "good or bad" is necessary or not. This kind of film only needs to go to a high-quality theater to scared the shit out and relieve the

debate on whether it is enough to be a bad film. Personally, I think it is not necessary. A thousand Shakespeare in my eyes

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  • Mike Enslin: [describing the room] There's a sofa, a writing desk, faux antique armoire, floral wallpaper. Carpet's unremarkable except for a stain beneath a thrift-store painting of a schooner lost at sea. The work is done in the predictably dull fashion of Currier and Ives. The second painting is of an old woman reading bedtime stories - a Whistler knockoff - to a group of deranged children while another Madonna and child watch from the background. It does have the vague air of menace. The third and final, painfully dull painting, the ever popular "The Hunt". Horses, hounds and constipated British lords. Some smartass spoke about the banality of evil. If that's true, then we've in the 7th circle of hell.

    [turns off tape recorder and pauses, then turns it back on]

    Mike Enslin: It does have its charms.

  • Mike Enslin: [talk into tape recorder] Hotels are a naturally creepy place... Just think, how many people have slept in that bed before you? How many of them were sick? How many... died?