I saw this movie yesterday and I must admit that John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson have done a terrific job in this movie. It’s a very disturbing film and for a person like me who is running behind "ultimate liberation", it’s a signature nightmare that I live "every day" in and out. I mean the suffocation and helplessness is so genuine. When you have touched the raw nerve and when you start decoding the structures behind the illusion called the "universe", then the haunting starts. You are chased and haunted by the "gatekeepers" and the “sleeping beings” of this world to keep you in perpetual never ending nightmare.
This film also reminds me of the cycle of birth, death and rebirth and it also makes me hyperaware of the difficulty one has to face to break the conventional chain of events and follow the path of true liberation. The empire strikes back, from the day when you start following the path of "truth”.
Coming back to the film, the ending is chilling where you have a "sequence" in which the best that is offered to you (to escape from this never ending nightmare) is a “noose” which shall in fact help you become part of the "abyss" itself.
1408 is a must see. It’s brilliant. Last week I had seen another flick which arouses the raw emotion in you. The Hostel brings out the darkest side of the human psyche. It’s true that human beings can become the devil personified.
Sanjay at Nirvana
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