so was he dead...............
at the end??
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shareI think he is in hell
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I think it's more a case that his spirit will be perpetually bound to the house. So, if he's not dead yet, when he does die, he will still be living there.
shareIf the novel is anything to go by, this is more or less the case.
In it, the house is the nexus of an infinity of possible worlds, and he was exposed to it for too long; even if it was possible for him to leave at that point, he no longer really cared, as he wasn't able to think about things from a regular human perspective.
You've read the book? I have minor questions that the movie doesn't answer:
He sees a note in his journal to the effect "Get out now", and we later see that he sent that note to himself.
i. Later on he finds two additional notes that say something like "It's too late now." But we never see at what point he wrote those notes. When did he write them?
ii. Why did he bother writing them? He eventually knows the futility of trying to escape the house. Furthermore, he seems to accept that his fate is to be bound to the house. So what was the purpose of alerting himself to the fact that it was too late?
It's been a while since I read it, but as I recall, his notes to himself are written at the same time as the entries in his journal they appear in the middle of, he just doesn't realize he's doing it. I think that also ties into the reason why he writes them - he only realizes what's happening at a subconscious level. When he does read back his journal and finds them, it's already too late.
shareThx. It doesn't add anything to the story per se... just a detail that I couldn't make sense of.
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