Decided to watch this film was directed at John Cusack!
After watching it, I realized that the film had two completely different endings, and that it was actually based on a short story by Stephen King.
But after reading it, I can't help but feel some emotions: John Cusack is old! The acting is still good, but the level of film selection is far from satisfactory! So I started to miss another of his works a few years ago, "Identity", and I was going to review it again.
In my impression, John Cusack is thin, elegant, and gentle as jade, but in the film, he started to gain weight and had fat on his body and face. Although this does not affect my love for him at all, nor does it affect his acting skills, to be fair, he still interprets the psychological process of the male protagonist Mike from cynicism to fear and shock to despair and consciousness, if not for him, I'm afraid I really want to give up halfway, but I still can't avoid disappointment, and I can't avoid taking my dissatisfaction with the plot to him - who made him like me?
"Dissatisfied with the plot" sounds disrespectful to the master. In fact, I do have no feelings for Stephen King. It's unfair to say this, but I can't help it, because I haven't read any of his original books, and I haven't watched many movies, except "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" Impressed, especially for the former, and others such as "The Shining" and "Skinny to Die" are neither scary nor meaningful, so I arbitrarily classified them as bad movies.
Closer to home, talk about "1408". In fact, I was fully prepared to be frightened, because the music in the opening was really aura, so that I originally planned to watch the movie alone and grabbed my husband to be brave, but the lengthy foreshadowing of the first 20 minutes made people less interested, and forced their spirits. Persevering until the hotel manager played by Samuel L. Jackson appeared, how could it still be a cliché: a serious narrative, a pretentious intimidation, a bloody old photo... until Mike went to the long-awaited room 1408: the dim yellow and flickering lights, the scarlet The wallpaper and carpets, the mysterious woman in white passing by, the snacks covered with mosquitoes, the elevator that suddenly opened and closed... are all easy-to-understand routines, and the horror index plummeted. The following plot is a little interesting: after entering the room, Mike has all kinds of hallucinations, all kinds of hallucinations point to the things in his heart that he is most unwilling to face, and Mike tries to escape, of course, he can't escape no matter what. Two of the scenes really got me into the play: Mike called for help out of the window, and someone on the opposite floor responded, but soon found that it was just himself; a desperate Mike took a risk, climbed out of the window, and tried to follow the narrow window edge. Going to another room, but looking around, there are only cold endless walls, no other windows at all, the only way out is to go back to 1408. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, the director seemed to be a little obsessed, and persevered to create all kinds of "horror" things: floods, earthquakes, freezing... When Mike was chased by zombies in the vent, I was already impatient, just waiting for the end of the film .
Although the plot was handled a bit by the director, the theme of the movie is very clear - 1408 is the closed and never open corner of Mike's heart: there is the pain of losing his beloved daughter forever, and the filth between husband and wife. Alienation, unfulfilled responsibilities to his father, disrespect to ghosts and gods, and rejection of God, in short, there is a past that he is unwilling to face but cannot escape. In the hallucination, Mike tried to reconcile with his wife, tried to ask his father's forgiveness, and tried to hold his daughter tightly in his arms again, but everything seemed too late, and the daughter was finally annihilated in his arms... Therefore, I still think the ending is better. After experiencing such mental torture, how much courage and energy do I need to continue to bear it? Most people, including Mike, complete the so-called self-redemption by destroying everything, which is actually more logical.
However, is 1408 only in Mike's heart?
I'm afraid everyone has a 1408 in their hearts. Although it is human instinct to filter unpleasantness and avoid pain, we always live in the beautiful memories that we created intentionally or unintentionally, but this does not mean that the pain and sorrow of the past have disappeared, they are just hiding in the room called "1408" , jumping out from time to time to disturb the seemingly peaceful life, Mike resolutely gave up everything and obtained liberation, then, what about us, if it were us, what should we do to fight against this lonely life?
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