Near the end, the receptionist calls and says "You may think you leave the room, but you never leave the room". Earlier in the movie Mike actually DID leave the room, end it ended up as a mere illusion (aka. he never left the room.)
Now in the end he is packing stuff with his wife, and then he plays the recording and he smiles very evil-y at his wife.
Now if we also back up a bit in the movie, the receptionist says that Mikes wife is on his way, which he complains loudly about.
Sooo, in the end is it supposed to be like he is still in the room, and the wife DID come in to him, so now they are both trapped - or did Mike just go insane, and THAT'S why he had the crazy look in his eyes?
Discuss please.
Well he did get out of the room when he set it on fire, by "nobody leaves the room" he just meant it will always haunt you in memory. In the hospital he was pissed his wife didn't believe that he saw an apparition of their daughter. When they're packing he's playing the tape, and it plays a conversation with his daughter, astonishing the wife.
tl;dl, BITCH I TOLD JOO LOL
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By the way the ending to 1408 was one of the best I've seen in a long time.
In the book he dies
I only saw the original version, in which he dies.
The tape probably means there's gonna be a sequel.
When I watched it on TV, I had seen the original ending. I didn't even know there was another ending until now. I saw the one where he dies at the end.
His wife got told by him, that's the only reason he's smiling that way. There's no murderous rage behind it or nothing.
In the film he dies. In the book he escapes the room.
The film had two endings, one he lives one he dies.
Mike finally "escaped" the room by setting it on fire. Depending on the ending that you saw he either dies a hero and is re-united with his daughter in the afterlife or he survives the incident, escapes and re-unites with his wife in which he reveals, erriely, the paranormal conversation he had with their daughter. It's not a "evil-y" smile but a sort of satisfied expression instead, knowing that he finally had a chance to be with his daughter once again.
They were originally going to go for the ending in which he dies but the test audience said it was too depressing.
The ending in which he died wasn't very good either way, it seemed cheap to end with that jump-scare.
The one where he dies is better, where he lives is too sappy.
I think the one where he dies was better too, but it was so badly executed. I hated it when Sammy J. looked in the mirror and saw that ghost. That ruined it for me.
I saw both endings.
The one you're talking about OP, he smiles because hearing his daughter speak on the tape proves to him and his wife that what he went through actually happened, and it wasn't just an illusion.
The "book" is very short, I still don't even understand why they made a movie. King should be embarassed.
Nah. He makes up for all that with super-movies.
[QUOTE=Calam1tous;21031695]King should be embarassed.[/QUOTE]
He usually is when it comes to film adaptions of his stories.
Also nice bump you made there.
-holy shit wtf-
I am so sorry...
fuck
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