A long time ago, it was recommended by Big Brother Wanwan, and it is one of the few horror movies that I may have watched seven or eight times ten times.
The content of the film is actually very simple. The male protagonist is a writer who visits a ghost land, a haunted hotel, a lighthouse, etc., but his popularity is not high. It is worth mentioning that his "The Long Way Home" is mentioned. Many times, I have asked him if he will publish a similar style of narrative book? There are also criticisms that the father in the book is a bastard (the role of the father in the book is the male protagonist himself, which also implies that the male protagonist has always wanted to get rid of his misses for his daughter, but the process of thinking about his daughter again and again)
One thing to say, although he is a writer, but the particularity of his profession, on the one hand, he can feel the excitement of visiting ghosts (the male protagonist himself also said, I believe there are no ghosts in the world, and those haunted places are all to attract popularity. A gimmick made), on the other hand, you can stay in a hotel, saving a bunch of room charges.
With the development of the plot, the male protagonist lives in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel. The hotel manager Olin tries to persuade hopeless. Not only does he reveal that there are cases of unnatural death in room 1408, but he also presents a collection of good wine, but the male protagonist is determined to live there. 1408, okay, let him live with him. Olin didn't dare to move when he arrived at the elevator. It could be seen that people who didn't want to enter didn't want to move for one second or more. Next to 1408, there lived a mother with a baby, and there were leftover plates at the door.
Stepping into 1408, oh, it's quite luxurious, with small refrigerators, murals in the living room and bedroom, and a bathtub in the bathroom. The male protagonist smoked a piece of toilet paper and looked at the street scene in the master bedroom. Suddenly, the old-fashioned stereo sounded behind him, and there was someone in the house! I searched and searched for friends, but I didn't find a friend.
Made a mistake, come again!
The beginning of the film is a rainy night. The gloomy music is accompanied by the cries of believers. The male protagonist, Anslin, drives slowly over. The fanaticism of believers "The gate to hell is opening ahead of us. The flames of eternal damnation are always ready to seize. Our soul" (here is a foreshadowing, which will be mentioned later), the male protagonist took the map and found that he had gone the wrong way (also one of the foreshadowings) [The corresponding 1408 here is itself a gate to hell, and it was the wrong way. The road also corresponds to the lyrics on the radio behind "There are so many roads for us to choose from", but the male protagonist Anslin took the wrong road and came to the gate of hell] and came to the Tears Beach Hotel. The stories and supernatural events here, of course, their real purpose is to hope that the "maid suicide incident" was created out of nothing by Anslin's mention of their haunted hotel. The male protagonist stayed for a night in peace and nothing happened.
The next day at the bookstore signing ceremony, Anslin also bluntly mentioned that the so-called haunted inns, tombs, and lighthouses are all means and methods by the store owners to save the bleak business economy, while a female reader took the His previous book "The Long Way Home" questioned whether the character structure of the father-son relationship described in the book is complete or not.
The male protagonist drove to the beach to enjoy surfing. He looked up and saw a plane flying over with a banner. At this moment, a huge wave hit, Ansling was photographed into the sea, and he was washed up on the shore after drowning. After going to the post office to get a pile of letters and flipping through them in a cafe, a "Dolphin Hotel Room 1408" caught his attention. Anslin called to make an appointment at the hotel, and found that the hotel staff told him that room 1408 was not available, which whetted Anslin's appetite. Anslin began to look up 1408's story online and sought legal aid to try to force a hotel stay. New York is a sad place for Anslin, possibly related to his wife Lily, but the film doesn't mention it much.
Anslin took a taxi to the Dolphin Hotel. The splendid hotel was very grand. There were crowds of tourists coming and going. Anslin walked to the front desk and mentioned his reservation information. Lin was very happy and discussed with Anslin not to live in 1408, but Anslin insisted on staying. Olin offered to let Ansling enter and leave his office at will and provided him with information on a total of 56 deaths that occurred in 1408 to write in a book and a bottle of wine in exchange, revealing that he was also Anslin's. One of the readers, who also mentioned the plot in "The Long Way Home", bluntly slammed the father in the book for being an asshole, and Anslin agreed, but finally asked to stay in 1408, Olin compromised, and warned him , although Anslin believes that there are no ghouls, ghosts or anything in this world, but 1408 is a very evil room. (You can feel the uniqueness of the room from the very deep position where the key is placed in the key cabinet)
Anslin and Orin took the elevator upstairs together. He asked Orin why he didn't close room 1408. Orin's answer was "Pretend that nothing happened, just like there is no 13th floor [because there is no 13th floor, 14th floor" In fact, it is on the 13th floor. The number 13 symbolizes evil in the West, and the sum of the room number 1408 is exactly 13. On the 13th floor, room 13 is extremely evil.]" Olin went to the elevator and asked Ansling again. Don't go in, but Anslin still went his own way. While walking through historical documents, he witnessed more and more unbelievable death cases. He bumped into the sofa in the center of the elevator entrance, and the elevator door slowly opened. No one came in and out, looked down and found an even more outrageous death "My brother was eaten by wolves in the wild", getting closer and closer to 1408, a messy dinner plate was lying on the ground, and flies were parked on it, a mother pushed Walking into room 1409 with a stroller, the baby was crying.
When I entered the room, I found that it was no different from an ordinary hotel room. I was lying on the sofa with a tape recorder and described the decoration of the room. After the mural style, I opened the window and described the scenery outside the window.
At this moment, the sound on the head of the bed suddenly sounded, and Anslin was startled, and the back of his head hit the glass window. "We are just beginning to enjoy life, white ribbons and vows, so many paths for us to choose", Oslin found. There were two more chocolates on the head of the bed, which indicated that there was someone in the room, but I couldn't find it. The toilet roll had been manipulated by someone, and a figure flashed by the ceiling mesh window. The temperature in the room was getting higher and higher. He checked the temperature control device and found that there was a problem. He called the front desk. The first reaction of the front desk was to ask him if he wanted to check out. Anslin suggested that he only needed to help repair the temperature control device, and the hotel agreed. While waiting for the repairman, Anslin turned on the tape recorder to cheer himself up. He turned off the lights and took the infrared device to search every corner of the room. The mottled bloodstains reflected the past. The picture of the boat is skewed. The gloomy light and the stuffy room made Ansling stare at the painting and had an illusion, but fortunately, the knock on the door interrupted all this.
It was the repairman who knocked on the door. After the repairman opened the door, he stood around the door and looked around but refused to step into the room. He instructed Anslin to repair the thermostat remotely. Anslin turned around and wanted to tip the repairman, but the door was empty. Anslin The probe only saw the back of the repairman leaving in a hurry. Anslin closed the door in a daze, and thoughtfully picked up the wine on the bedside table, poured it into a glass, and reclined by the bed to drink. Suddenly the sound rang again. The familiar music frightened Anslin, spilled the wine, Anslin turned off the stereo angrily, but the stereo suddenly started timing, and the time was one hour. , Anslin remembered Olin's words "No one can live for an hour in 1408", accompanied by a burst of tinnitus, Anslin couldn't hear any sound, opened the window and couldn't hear any sound, turned his head to go back to the room, the window suddenly fell and clamped He grabbed Anslin's hand and rushed into the bathroom to take a towel to wash the wound with water, but the tap suddenly burst out with hot water. Anslin went back to the bedroom and wrapped a cloth around his hand. The sound rang again. Anslin angrily pulled out the plug, but the timer didn't At the end, the phone rang, the other end ignored Anslin's request, and was transferred to Olin, but couldn't get through. Anslin realized that the situation was not right, and hurriedly packed up and prepared to leave, but the key was interrupted when the door was opened. , Anslin took out his tools and opened the lock, but the door handle was broken again. If he couldn't open the door, Anslin thought of running to the window for help. In the room facing the window, there was a man sitting on the sofa with a dark face, smoking a cigarette. Anslin screamed desperately to attract his attention, but gradually found that the person across the window was imitating his every movement. Anslin picked up the lamp and lit his face, only to find that the person opposite was him, he saw him Someone behind him was slashing at him with an axe, but unfortunately the person opposite the window had already been chopped down. When he turned his head, he found that someone was also slashing at him with an axe. Anslin rolled to the corner and found that there was no one there. , He took the lamp and threw it downstairs, but the lamp disappeared when it was close to the ground. In desperation, he heard his daughter's voice. Anslin began to panic and picked up the tape recorder to remind himself that it was all It was a hallucination, and suddenly his eyes noticed a camera in the grid top window, guessing that it was all Orin's conspiracy, maybe it was a hallucination created by Orin drugging him in wine or chocolate, the TV suddenly turned on, The picture flickers and gradually stabilizes. Anslin once lived happily as a family of three. Anslin gradually accepted it. When the TV was turned off, he picked up the wine again, turned around and saw the three-dimensional image of the person who had committed suicide by jumping off the building, and suddenly heard 1409 next door. The baby cried, he wanted to ask the mother next door for help, but the baby was getting louder and louder, The noise made Ansling have a splitting headache, so he picked up the chair and threw it towards the wall, finally calming down. Then he heard a voice from the bathroom. Anslin came in and found that it was his father. His father said to him, "The present you is the past me, and the present me is the future you." Anslin realized that he was not His father returned to the bathroom in a trance.
Returning to the room, he began to think about when he last slept. During his thinking, he saw a crack in the wall and blood was flowing. He opened the window to stimulate himself, but the bottomless abyss made him horrified. He checked the door. The route map after that, calculated the distance between the window and the window of the next room, turned out the window and started to creep along the wall to the next door, but when he reached the corresponding position, he couldn't see the window, and he found that there were no windows all around, and he fled again. Going back to the room, I glimpsed the road map behind the room. There is only one room in 1408. There is only one wall from the door, and the window has also become a wall. The room has changed from warm to cool, and the bedroom window has even disappeared. Turning on the tape recorder, he even mentioned "It's strange that there is no window in the bedroom", which made Anslin collapse. He gradually saw his daughter lying on the hospital bed, and the scene of him comforting his wife. He called out his daughter's name—— Katie. Suddenly the light dimmed, and when he heard his daughter's cry for help, he groped for the light switch, and a man with an ax appeared in the mirror. He was so frightened that he turned around quickly, but there was no one there. His laptop was connected to the Internet and he asked Lily for help, but the sprinkler in the room suddenly sprayed water, and the computer was flooded. Holding the crying baby, he asked her for help, but only then did he find that the woman below was his wife Lily, and she was complaining to the former him, Lily downstairs looked at Anslin on the skylight, and he continued in fright Climbing forward, I saw the former dispute between myself and my father. The two broke up. My father also looked up at Anslin on the skylight. Anslin continued to climb, and suddenly found a mummified corpse. The mummy suddenly twisted its body. Crawling towards Anslin, chased by the mummy, Anslin returned to 1408. He became insane, fantasizing about confronting Olin in front of the refrigerator. When he came to his daughter's skirt, just as he fell into contemplation, the living room was already white. It turned out that the living room was covered with snow and the temperature of the room reached below zero. On this side, another person played himself and wanted to get Lily involved. Suddenly the house shook, as if he was on the sea. He looked at the previous oil paintings, and the ship painting also turned into a shipwreck. , The pirate on the deck was the man with the axe. He picked up the leg of the chair and smashed it at the boat. The huge waves hit him and he was submerged by the water.
After waking up, he found himself lying on the beach, then passed out again, and woke up again. He was already in the hospital, Lily was beside him, everything that happened in 1408 seemed to be a dream, he lived a normal life, and the investigation turned out that 1408 The secret, but found that the news of the person who committed suicide in 1408 turned into another address.
And when he wrote all this into a book and went to the post office to send the parcel, the post office person turned his head and found that it was the person from the Dolphin Hotel who was going to help him with his luggage. Suddenly, the group of workers in the renovation picked up the hammer and began to smash the wall. , Anslin found himself back in 1408 in this trance, but it was already in ruins, his daughter appeared in the dark, Anslin hugged, but unfortunately her daughter died in his arms, the sound rang again, Kai Di turned into a pile of ashes, the timer counted down, Anslin lay on the ground and returned to the room, the audio started to count again, the phone rang, and the front desk of the hotel called, so that Anslin could choose to spend an unforgettable hour over and over again. , you can also choose the express check-out service - suicide. The slings were all over the place. He couldn't see himself in the mirror. In the living room, the grave reserved for him was even dug. Anslin picked up the phone and refused their check-out service. The phone also gradually melted after being reminded by a friend, but when he regained his senses, the phone was left intact, he picked up the cloth and wine, and burned with 1408 in the fire.
Although Anslin died, he disappeared into this world together with 1408. Olin watched Anslin's memorial service from a distance, and took Anslin's relic tape recorder to his wife Lily, but Lily refused, Olin himself turned on the tape recorder in the car and listened to Anslin's dialogue, his smile gradually disappeared, because Anslin in the tape recorder became nervous, Olin also heard the voice of his dead daughter calling for his father in the tape recorder, and the tape recorder stopped abruptly here. It stopped, and the little girl outside the car was looking for her father's call. He adjusted his rear-view mirror and found that Anslin, who was burned beyond recognition, was sitting in the back of the car, which frightened Orin. With a jump, he watched the father lead his daughter away gradually, relax slowly, and drive away slowly. In room 1408, Anslin's ghost also heard the call of his daughter and gradually disappeared into room 1408.
Interestingly, the movie has 4 different endings, all of which are already filmed.
Ending 1: Mike set fire to the room and was rescued by firefighters. He told Lily that he had seen his daughter du. But Lily refused to believe him. Later, the two lived together again, and Mike also started writing novels again. He found the tape of that night, which played the conversation between him and his daughter, Lily was shocked to hear it, and Mike had a weird smile on his face. The movie ended.
Ending 2: Mike set fire to the room and died in a sea of flames. After the funeral, the hotel manager Olin gave Mike's belongings to Lily, but Lily did not accept to leave. Olin opened the box by himself, turned on the tape recorder and heard the conversation between Mike and his daughter Katie. The movie In the end it was Mike's ghost living with his daughter in scorched 1408.
Ending 3: Mike set fire to the room and died in a sea of flames. Publishing house 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 stack of complete novel drafts, the cover reads "1408, by Mike Enslin"
Ending 4: This ending is similar to the theatrical version, the difference is: Mike decided not to let Lily know about it after hearing the recording.
Overall, the design of this movie is still very interesting. The male protagonist Anslin himself is a writer who visits ghost resorts, but at the same time he is a staunch atheist. He is not a person who is not afraid, but Choose not to believe in the existence of ghosts.
Almost all haunted places come to him just to bring a ray of life to the bleak economy, but the existence of 1408 completely changes his view of everything, because 1408 really has demons.
When he first entered 1408, the unremarkable classic layout of the hotel made him think that the Dolphin Hotel was another hotel that wanted to use his book to gain popularity, but what happened afterward made him unimaginable and made him an atheist about himself. All were shaken.
·Painting
The three paintings on the wall are "Noble Hunting", "Sea Vessel" and "Bedtime Story". "Noble Hunting" reflects the sense of achievement and pleasure obtained by the noble class by hunting animals with tools. Natural pressure. "Sea Vessels" is also a picture that symbolizes human beings conquering the sea (nature) through the invention of boats and galloping on the sea. "Bedtime Story" is a way that people have advocated since childhood to go to sleep peacefully. Listening to fairy tales or fables gives children a beautiful idea. What Anslin saw in the hallucination later was that in "Noble Hunting", thunder roared, hounds barked, and horses were frightened (Thor). In "The Vessel of the Sea", the boat is photographed by a stormy sea, and there are people on board with strangely dressed hammers (water ghost costumes), and in "Bedtime Stories" everyone looks in horror at a nursing mother whose nipples are bleeding , while the baby in his arms is like a vampire. All the parties under pressure in the original paintings are all reversed. He even made up the dialogues and screams of the characters in the paintings.
·Number "13"
There are many numbers "13", and Western religions are very taboo against 13. Room number 1408; the room is on the 14th floor, many hotels skip the 13th floor and go directly from the elevator 12 to 14, but the room is actually on the 13th floor; the key box in the hotel is "6214", which also adds up to 13; first The number of deaths occurred in 1912, adding up to 13; the location of the hotel at 2254 Lexington st, NYC, 2254 added up to 13.
·liquor
The $800 bottle of wine that hotel manager Olin gave Mike was called "Les Cinquante Sept Décès". French for "The 57th Death". It is not difficult to forget that there were 56 deaths in the history of 1408. Implying that Mike is the 57th.
Personally, I think that no hands or feet have been touched in the wine, but the alcohol itself can cause hallucinations. In addition, people are in a tense atmosphere, Anslin may have hallucinations, but part of it is still from room 1408 itself.
·Room 1408
It was indeed "extremely evil" as Orin said, but how did Orin know that no one could survive an hour at Hotel 1408? The room itself does not kill anyone, but reflects the most vulnerable and most unremembered experiences of the characters to carry out mental torture, thus prompting people to commit suicide. For example, Anslin did not show filial piety to his father, In his answer to his father's phantom, he also realized that when he was old, he had no children to take care of and would die alone, just like his father. The quarrel between Anslin and his wife Lily showed that the relationship between the husband and wife was not in harmony. For his daughter Katie, he was more reluctant and guilty. He watched the disease take away his daughter, so in room 1408, he still had The opportunity to hold his daughter, even if it is fake, is temporary, he wants to have it for a moment, and then room 1408 takes his daughter from his arms again, which is also the last pillar to break Anslin.
"Burn me to death" is written on the wall of the room, as if the last trace of the devil's conscience may also be the way to make fun of the male protagonist to commit suicide. It is not clear whether to burn the room or burn himself. 1408 hinted again and again that Anslin let him commit suicide, and shattered any thought of escaping or asking for help, desperate.
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