I've never owned a geo metro or lived in the northeast or ridden a tram. The crazy thing is that all these friends had names and lifelong shared memories and just really detailed lives and personalities- and they never existed. The next morning waking up from a couple hours of sleep, I finished loading the last few things from my apartment into my Geo Metro and saying somber goodbyes to the guys, promising that we weren't dying amd that we'd visit and stay close forever. The night was wild parties at local bars, a heated fight between two of my friends that devolved into sappy bro love, and breaking up with my long time girlfriend and her confessing she was already seeing someone else. Once I was living in a Boston-esque city in a townhome and about to leave for college out of state, and my three childhood best friends took me out the night before. I have really elaborate dreams sometimes. The first time I read the story, I was very much reminded of this scene from 1408.
He mourns for his wife and children who never existed but still existed to him. He led a different, full life in the dream and now awakens to find it wasn't real. The lamp grows larger and wider and its shape consumes him, and the man awakes from his coma. Then he realizes the house he's in isn't real, nothing around him is real. Eventually he realizes the lamp isn't real. His coma-wife leaves him and takes his coma-kids to his coma-mother-in-laws. He doesn't get off the couch, he doesn't eat. He spends days in-dream just staring at the lamp, transfixed. The longer he stares, the worse he feels about the lamp, the more certain he becomes that lamp does not belong.
He stares at it trying to figure out what's wrong with this lamp. Something about it, the shape, the shadow it casts, it's off. Then one day he's enjoying his living room, and notices his lamp doesn't look right.
There's a pretty well known Reddit story where a coma patient details his time in a coma where he met a woman, got married, had kids, and settled down. I had seen the theatrical cut, which I prefer over the directors original variant, but it's a small gripe. The only weakness I can think of is the very end. On top of this, John Cusack absolutely kills the role of a bitter, sarcastic, protagonist, and Samuel L Jackson has a small but strong role as well. I'll admit I'm a fan of horror that spends most of its time building than actual scares, but there's some shock moments here that I've been thinking about for a decade since I first saw the film. The contrast between the hero who thinks he knows better - and actively trying to figure out the "game" - and the mundane nature of a hotel room being in control is great. Multiple scenes throughout take you from comfortable places and then rip the carpet from underneath when you least expect it, and then re-introduce those elements in a way that's really unsettling. The way this movie builds a sense of dread is absolutely the best I've seen. Latest Discussions Turning Red The Batman Texas Chainsaw Massacre Roland Emmerich Jamie Dornan Robert Pattinson (2017)įor those who haven't seen it, the premise is a cynical horror writer receives a tip to stay overnight in a NY hotel room.