How did you analyze the 1408 Phantom Murder Room?

Analysis of the killing power from room 1408

The ability of the killing room is mainly threefold: spatial enchantment (accurate to the second), magic (with time limits), self-deformation and reset (non-resettable aliens)

1. Spatial boundaries

(Accurate to the second): So that the male protagonist who is about to be killed can never escape, a local space substitution is used (so the police come into the room and can't find him). But it can lift the boundary at the moment you jump out of the window and make you really jump out of the building to break and die.

Spatial Boundary: Similar to the space of my classmates in the first parallel world, "Disappearing"

2. Magic

(There is a time limit): Although it cannot be used indefinitely, it can make you objectively hit the magic for ten minutes but feel that after a few days, when the male protagonist mistakenly thinks that he has escaped, he has actually been recruited. (Those who have seen Naruto explain "monthly reading" should be well understood.) ）

3. Self-deformation and reset

(First of all, the phone in the killing room is part of the killing room, not a normal phone at all) All objects in the killing room are manipulated by the killing room, and even their existence or non-existence can be arbitrarily decided.

But the killing room cannot obliterate the objects brought in from the outside, so the lighter, wine, and cloth brought in by the male protagonist are arranged (the male protagonist says: this may not all be real. and I may not even be real. But the fire,that's got to be real.)

Addendum: The water used to extinguish the fire in the final murder room is also true, but it is doomed. The male protagonist first uses flame combustion to seriously reduce the oxygen concentration, so that the fire becomes smaller, and then gets up from the ground, throws the ashtray and smashes the glass, the external oxygen quickly enters, due to the sudden expansion of the combustion reaction gas volume, an instantaneous explosion. The reason why the male protagonist wants to use the explosion to crush 1408 is that he is worried that only the flame may not burn the regenerative room 1408. (An example of a similar physical phenomenon: there are many people who are killed when they open the door from outside after the gas leaks and burns in their homes.)

4. Soul Search and Reproduction

At the end of the film, the tape has a dialogue between the protagonist and his daughter, and room 1408 cannot violate the physical norms, coupled with the positioning of the entire film, it is clear that the daughter's soul is really in room 1408.

So, Room 1408 not only performs a mental scan of the people in the room, but also performs a soul search and forcibly pulls them in.

5. Other capabilities

Room 1408 also has weak physical attack abilities (unable to violate physical guidelines), such as the male protagonist's hand being pinched by a window and scalded with boiling water, both of which are real.

Plot analysis and reflection

1. First of all, do not ignore the bookseller of the protagonist Anslin, who can deceive Anslin by using a handyman as a lawyer for the sake of profit, so that he can stay in 1408, so that he can write horror stories that make him money. From this description, he is also an atheist, and he appears when the hotel manager wants to return Anslin's relic to his wife, and this time to prevent his wife from taking the tape recorder back.

1. Important props - tape recorder. Strange things actually happened on this tape recorder twice, after the protagonist Ann Silin entered the room, the bedroom had a window, and when he returned to the room from the window of the living room, he went to the bedroom to find that the original window position was actually a wall, he began to play back the words he had said in the tape recorder, and suddenly found that there was a sentence that said: "I really can't believe that the bedroom of this broken room has no windows!" But his hand was obviously smashed by this window, and the protagonist was very confused when he saw that he had blood on his hand. The second time is when Olin turns on the unburned tape recorder and hears the dialogue between the protagonist and his dead daughter, which is also real. It is hard to believe that the above paragraph mentions that what the male protagonist brings into the room by himself cannot violate the physical norms, so the question is, why is there a contradiction between this and the last male protagonist discovering this physical criterion and setting fire to the room?

3. I remember Anslin's first book, "The Long Way Home", the content of the book can not be known, but from the content of the movie, it should be an unpleasant experience when he was a child. One reader once said that the father of the book was really an asshole, and when asked if the male protagonist was his personal experience, he hesitated and said no, and after saying it, the dim eyes betrayed him. In connection with the plot behind, it is not difficult to find that the strange events that appear in the protagonist in 1408 are the epitome of the things he came into contact with before entering the room, a father who did not fulfill his responsibilities, the early death of his daughter, the bizarre death report collecting materials to create ghost stories, and the experience of surfing and almost drowning, which formed shadows in his mind, and these shadows were the tools that attacked him in room 1408. At the end of the story, the protagonist discovers that the illusion created by these killing rooms is that they cannot kill him, and the way to kill people in the killing room is to make this hour an infinite cycle (belonging to the mental torture and killing method), forcing the people in the room to have a mental breakdown and commit suicide! This also confirmed Olin's words before he entered the room, and the occupants of 1408 committed suicide in a bizarre way. The protagonist's choice is that he and this strange killing room will end up together, and the final scene will appear. In the end, Anslin finally left 1408 in a ghostly way, perhaps seeing the audience here thought that the story was over, but there was one strange thing that was not burned, that is, the tape recorder, and this tape recorder made Olin hallucinate, and the strange 1408 was not ended by Anslin.

In the end, it is worth thinking about.

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