Synopsis
the hero MikeEnslin is a horror novelist Mike will mystify their jobs as their daily actually a downright atheist. In order to complete his new book, Mike decided to find a "haunted" room to stay for ten days, and he finally chose the most eerie Dolphin Hotel (Dolphin Hotel) room 1408. The hotel manager tried to persuade Mike not to take the risk with 56 bizarre deaths in that room over the years, but Mike didn't care and insisted on his choice. And after moving into room 1408, one piece of bizarre paranormal phenomenon made Mike completely change his outlook on life of ghosts and gods. The real experience of a lot of horror and thrillers has really accumulated material for Mike's new book, but the crux of the problem is that he has to get out of that room alive first...
Theatrical version ending:
Mike set the room on fire and was rescued by firefighters, he told Lily that he had seen it Daughter. But Lily refused to believe him. Later, the two lived together again, and Mike began to write novels again. When he was packing his things, he found the tape of that night, which played the conversation between him and his daughter. Lily heard Shocked, Mike has a weird smile on his face. The movie ends.
Director's Cut (unrated version) Ending:
Mike sets fire to the room and dies. After the funeral, hotel manager Olin gives Mike's belongings to Lily, Lily doesn't Accept and leave. Olin opens the box himself, turns on the tape recorder and hears a conversation between Mike and his daughter Katie. The movie ends with Mike's ghost living with his daughter in a scorched 1408.
Ending three: Mike sets fire to the room and dies in flames. Published Club owner Sam returned to the office after the funeral and found a package sent by Mike at the California Post Office. When he opened it, it was a complete stack of draft novels, with the cover saying "1408, by Mike Enslin".
Outcome Four: The Movie with a similar outcome, except that: Mike after hearing the recording, Lily decided not to know about it
feel this film is a more refreshing psychological horror film, screenwriter unique way, and runs through strange always. The film not only exposes the frailty of human nature, but also returns the kindness of human nature. Through the layers of the film, the inner world of the characters is slowly dissected out. The protagonist Mike's beloved daughter died of illness, his wife left, and he had no intention to take care of his aging father, and the demon in the room also took advantage of this to launch a psychological war with Mike. There is a saying that details determine success or failure. The movie leaves us a lot of room for our own imagination, but it has explained all the necessary plots, but these explanations are very vague, and it is these remaining problems that make it highly suspenseful. To watch this film, you must first understand its two purposes: there are souls in the first human world; there are demons in the second room. The teacher of the school is Mi You who understands this and misinterprets it.
I think everyone should have something they didn't notice or didn't understand.
The first mystery, what happened to the manager? Mike went to the beach to surf. At that time, he was lying on his back on the surfboard and saw a gray plane flying over his head, and the gray plane was dragging a long banner. Mike tried to look at it, but the second half of the note was pierced by the sun. Mike's eyes, so he didn't see clearly, and at this moment, he accidentally turned over and fell into the sea, and someone rescued him. Later, when he returned home, he received a postcard, which said: Do not go in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel. Afterwards, Mike went to the hotel to book a room. When he asked, the front desk clerk entered his name instead of 1408 on his computer, and then the manager left a message: I'm here to meet this person. And all the wonderful confrontation between the manager and Mike in the office behind. It seems difficult to connect these several, in fact, the hotel has no intentions. The postcard was sent by the manager. The manager knew that there must be ghosts in the house. He also knew that Mike was very curious, so he chose him. This is the reason why the manager left a message. He knew that Mik would come, but he let Mike in. What about Semo? We all thought that the manager was trying his best to save Mike in the office and not let him die, but it was wrong. He was testing whether Mike was the guinea pig he wanted. Dissuade him by pretending to use alcohol and confidential hotel information. When Mike thought he had beaten the manager and got the key to 1408, the manager had actually accomplished his plan. The students couldn't help but ask, isn't this manager bad? Wrong, he's a good guy, he even managed to save Mike after he was trapped, he chose Mike because of his excellent survivability and asked him to solve the mystery of the demon room. As soon as Mike made a mistake, the manager came to answer, but the manager thought too simply, how could the devil be controlled by him as a little human?
The second mystery, is there really a ghost in the room? There are demons in the room, one of the highlights of the film is that all the supernatural events of Mike from beginning to end have only happened in a small room, and only by watching it over and over again can you understand the mystery. I will prove it. First, the corridor... Second, it's very simple, the alarm clock, not only is it singing and telling the time abnormally, but the manager said that no one can last an hour, and the alarm clock was dedicated to opening that hour for Mike, All time is invalid, Mike doesn't know how much time he has spent, the alarm clock just torments him hour by hour, and every hour it goes back to zero and another supernatural phenomenon occurs, until Mike can't die. The best evidence for the existence of a demon is that after Mike's death, the manager listened to Mike's old friend, the tape recorder, which was Mike's most loyal friend. Even if Mike died, it could truly reflect the situation at that time. , so when the manager heard the voice of the daughter, thought to be unreal, coming from the tape recorder, all was silent.
The third mystery, at the end, why did the actor throw the ashtray out of the window and cause a very strong explosion immediately? It is very simple, and it is similar to the principle of a volcanic eruption. The house is closed at the beginning, and it burns in a closed space for a period of time. At this time, you give him an opening, so that he can get more air. Isn't that so. In addition, there is a phenomenon called "flashing" in the fire. Discovery has said that when the flame burns to a certain extent in a relatively confined space, any factor may easily lead to a similar explosive reaction. But what about Mike smashing the glass with an ashtray? general mirror, Glass is the devil's hideout. From the beginning, several people jumped out of the window in a row, and the ghost was attached to the window. All of these details can prove that, first of all, Mike failed to save himself and tried to call for help in the bathroom. There was a window on the opposite side of the building, and a person was writing on the desk. Mike tried his best to call for help. The person found Mike, but when the person stood up Later, Mike found that he started to do exactly the same action as himself, but the glass on the opposite side just played the role of reflecting Mike. Mike picked up the light and illuminated himself, trying to see if the person on the opposite side was really him, but at this moment Mike on the opposite side A figure appeared behind him, and he smashed the opposite Mike with a hammer. When Mike turned his head in horror, the man really rushed towards him from behind, but after Mike escaped, the figure disappeared again. Pay attention to the details. The person on the opposite side has Mike's face, but the clothes are obviously the clothes of the person on the opposite side. In other words, the glass of the window blocks the image of the person on the opposite side, leaving Mike isolated. And after Mike was trapped in the room, he looked out the door through the cat's eye, and there was actually a thick wall outside the door, which said you will be burned, this is the devil's psychological suggestion to him. And when Mike used his hand to ask his wife for help, another evil Mike's video dialogue window appeared on the screen. He blocked the communication between Mike and his wife, and instead he misled his wife to die together. This is also the devil hiding in the glass. one of the reasons. And Mike saw those ghostly maids jumping off the building, men swinging hammers, etc. through the glass in the bedroom and living room. There is also a warm family video that Mike used to shoot with the whole family laughing and laughing suddenly on the TV, aiming to use the most sensitive and weak emotion of people - family love to make Mike collapse, a warm family video, let Enslin in the previous In the extreme fear, he was moved to tears instantly, how much he missed a complete family, giving people warmth and release, but now he is trapped in a room full of supernatural beings, helpless and lonely , loneliness, in stark contrast to this warm picture, which may be a kind of irony, or a punishment for Enslin's arrogance.
The reason why the film is successful lies in the moral of the film. I explore the meaning of death involved in the film.
There is a clip of actor John Cusack after a nightmare in room 1408, and the hotel manager Samuel Jackson on the other side of the refrigerator in conversation. Samuel Jackson sneered and questioned him, an atheist, why he used his outlook on life to destroy other people's expectations for certain things after death. He weakly defended and rhetorically asked what the other party wanted from him. At this moment, he has personally experienced the fear in room 1408 from the senses, and his reason and spirit are struggling. At this time, Samuel Jackson can be regarded as another spiritual self of the hero.
Obviously, the protagonist is full of contradictions. It can be seen from the countless mysterious incidents that he has revealed, even though he pretends to be a ghost as his profession, he despises ghosts and gods. He believes in science and rejects the idea that people go to heaven after death, but believes that death is a cold hell. When his youngest daughter was critically ill, his wife once comforted the little girl's heart with the beauty of heaven. He believed that his wife's beautification of death indirectly caused her daughter to leave forever. In room 1408, the male protagonist first saw his deceased father, who was depicted as a pale, lonely, lost old man; in the second half of the film, he saw his daughter again, the room became as cold as hell, the little girl's skin Blue and purple feet covered in blood came over and turned to ashes in his arms. When my father appeared, he said something very important, "You will be like me". This can be understood as the basic concept of death for the male protagonist. His father is dead, his daughter is dead, and he will surely die in the future. Everyone knows that after death there is nothing, and everyone wants to know what it is like after death. The hero is full of fear of death, but he just doesn't believe in souls. The emergence of human beliefs often stems from the unknown and fear of death.
It is difficult to say what exactly this ghost room symbolizes, is it fear, death, or the inherent thought of human beings, anyway, the hero burns it down in the end. To perish together is the most helpless choice for human beings, and it is also a disguised compromise made by the hero. It didn't matter whether he found the answer in the end, what mattered was that he had changed his way of thinking.
In the ending we watched, although the male protagonist died with the room in the end, in the last scene we can see Mike's soul appearing in the scorched 1408. He looked safe, and his daughter's voice came from a distance. Called, he happily went to meet his daughter's soul. At this time, he was reborn in a sense.
On Mike's room and life
actor to open a bookstore in the autograph session, attended only five people. Books such as "10 Haunted Hotels Anecdotes" are only so-called "bestsellers" that cater to readers who "respect the grotesque and cheap thrills." The reader asks boring questions, and the author gives perfunctory and vulgar answers. Pulp fiction without a soul, in the opinion of the screenwriter Stephen King, will not be loved by readers. Interestingly, among the three or five people who only attended, there was a young girl who asked him to sign not a ghost novel, but his first novel many years ago, a novel about the true relationship between father and son, "The Long Return." Home Road". The girl asked him if the plot of the novel was based on reality, and he denied it. Because at this time what he wrote has been completely utilitarian and lost its original sincerity.
When Mike saw his daughter in the phantom and was seriously ill in bed and asked, "If I die, will God be there where I go?" Mike said "yes" out of consolation, and when the camera turned, Enslin said His wife was furious, claiming that her daughter was full of heaven and cloud shit. Mike was alone and did not fulfill his duty to support his father. In the phantom, the father said sadly, "Where is my garden? Where is my son?" When the father saw Mike, the old man looked at his son with hatred and smiled strangely. Say: "I used to be who I am now is you now; and I am now, you will be like this in the future." Once they lose the ability to work, they are waste, so in order to reduce expenses, their children brutally send their own parents up the mountain to be eaten by tigers, allowing them to self-destruct, but they can’t imagine that their young children will witness all this When their parents are as old as their grandparents, they punish their own parents in the same way. Mike's father's words are intended to warn Mike not to lose the most important family relationship in human nature. Connecting these three stories, Mike may have some achievements in his career, but in life he is indeed a loser. The failure of love, the failure of education, he likes being alone has created his distorted character, here we put aside the phenomenon of ghosts, look at some essential problems through this phenomenon, life requires our personality and our passion, however, When you don't care about the world, you won't get sympathy and pity, but people's ridicule and indifference to your ignorance. Just like Mike's persistence, when he tried to escape from this phantom space, what was waiting for him was the lock of the door, and the disappearance of all the guest rooms next door, when he found that only his own room 1408 was left on the floor plan hanging on the door. At that time, loneliness, helplessness, the Bible became a blank sheet of paper, and the gods and ghosts could not be saved. The ice and snow and the downpours that followed all implied that such people would never get what they wanted. At the end of the film, when Mike's daughter Katie "returns" to him (an hallucination), he is so excited, there is no previous blame, abuse and dissatisfaction, at this time he only has endless love and affection. Reluctant to give up, deeply remorseful for the mistakes he has made.
Mike lost his last fight with the flood in the room the first time he was in the room, and just when we thought that was the end of the story, the camera went back to the scene where Mike was lying on the surfboard at sea, celestial The gray plane flew over, and Mike read the note clearly, it said room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel. It turned out that everything was just a dream. Mike breathed a sigh of relief. Although the dream was terrible, the nightmare was on him. An important lesson, the daughter is dead and cannot be resurrected, but he must not continue to make mistakes, he must firmly hold his wife and father, and he tries his best to change himself. But just when he thought that a beautiful new life was about to begin, the reappearance of the phantom murderer made him feel the bliss of hell. The cunning phantom murderer first gave people hope, and then dealt a fatal blow. Mike's way of returning to Phantom Space is classic, Mike does the same thing he did before he came to the hotel, except that he never intends to go to that hotel again, he went back to the apartment once before visiting the hotel in his dream, now in reality He stood on the ground floor of the apartment and talked to the person on duty again, but at this moment, the decorator on the ground floor began to pick up the hammer and smash the ground floor of the apartment. The glass was smashed, the walls were torn down, and the carpet on the ground was torn. After everything was dismantled, what appeared in front of Mike was the familiar and terrifying phantom murderous room, and the demon didn't let him escape at all. But then her daughter appeared. At this time, the ghost realized that Mike had always wanted her daughter to exist in another form even if it was a ghost, so she let her daughter turn to ashes in his hands and dealt a fatal blow to him.
This time Mike broke down completely, and then the ghost let him know, either continue with another blow, or he went to see Max. When Enslin was about to collapse, the phone rang suddenly, and a female voice said: "You can choose to spend this hour like this over and over again, or you can use our express check-out system" - suicide, this is how many times before The reasons why ten tenants committed suicide. This "quick check-out system" is really shocking to me, can't stand this kind of torture? Can't stand such punishment? Then you can choose to go to another world, but is this the perfect answer to check out? Maybe you go to another world, and more cruel torture awaits you, because we can never ask our own demons. Shadows are always shadows. He will only gradually shrink as the light grows old, but it cannot disappear. The only way we can defeat him is to focus our eyes only on the light. Maybe this is a kind of self-deception, but at least , we are determined to change. Our protagonist, just as he said to himself "I have lived selfishly all my life, but I don't want to die like this, if I want to go to hell, I want you to be with me", instead of killing himself, he destroyed this rooms. Scholars can be killed but not humiliated. After the collapse comes Nirvana. Mike chose to perish with the ghosts and burn down Room 1408. You can torture a person's spirit as much as you want, but you can't tear up the most precious thing in his heart. This is the bottom line. Ghosts naturally don't understand this, so they end up dying again. You must understand that rabbits will bite people in a hurry.
When the raging fire spread to every corner, when the billowing smoke engulfed every space, Mike was at ease, without any resentment, he said to his tape recorder, "I'm here for work, I don't Back off, here I beat the Dolphins, 10 points". Yes, Mike defeated the dolphins and himself. He understood everything. Here, whether it is reality or an illusion, it will definitely change Mike's life, and it will also deeply affect us sitting in front of the screen.
At Mike's funeral, the manager gave his wife the tape recorder, but the wife didn't accept it. The manager knew the room was haunted, but he was not a ghost. When he listened to the last part of the recording, it turned out to be the conversation between Mike and his daughter. ! This is the best proof that there is a ghost in the room. So Mike was the winner, his wish came true, there was a soul in the world, and he didn't die in vain. Here is also the sentence: "Some bad memories should be remembered." The haunting made him walk with his daughter again.
In one of the film's endings, he has a conversation with his wife, who encourages him to regain his confidence and write a book in memory of his daughter. Humans always have to experience birth, old age, sickness and death, and only novels full of true feelings can truly penetrate the hearts of readers. He was shaken by his wife's words and finally finished writing after the disaster of 1408. In that conversation, the wife said, "Remember that you were always quick to write this," to which he replied, "It was easy to write this." At this time, the book in memory of his daughter should be in his notebook. This echoes the bookstore autograph session at the beginning of the film. After a long life full of pitfalls and forks, he finally found the one to go home.
Taking Mike's cynicism, being attacked and losing his family as the starting point, he starts a series of criticisms of human weakness, self-reflection from the illusory world, and also has educational significance. It is a rare good film.
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