Silent Hill ???

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Sayeed

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Hi, finally watched Silent Hill last night, first half an hour I thought it was disjointed and didn't involve me at all but then I did enjoy it, does anyone understand the ending though? I had a feeling something like that would happen but still failed to comprehend exactly what it meant? Can anyone enlighten me!

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I found this:

Silent Hill is really purgatory and it sits on the outskirts of Hell. The "survivors" are not really survivors because they are already dead. Rose and Sharon died in the the car accident that sent them to Silent Hill. Rose and Sharon escape the depths of Hell but can not escape Silent Hill because they are dead.
In spoilers - just in case... :)

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Have you ever played the games? Nobody understanRAB the endings in those, and there are alternative endings depending on how you play them.
I would have liked to see the film but was put off by the main character being a woman, they did the same with Resident Evil.
 
i actually cringed in this film, im normally not put off by gore but this was pretty hardcore!

The whole raping your mother with barb wire thing put me off i guess.
 
This is one of my favourite films of the first few years, because it is so visual. Part of the fun is trying to figure out what is going on - for example whether Rose is just hallucinating because of the fumes from the fire.

There is a massive and unsubtle info-dump towarRAB the end which explains most of it.
Silent Hill exists on three levels which I'll call normal, purgatory and hell. Rose and Sharon die the in car crash, and the policewoman dies in a motorcycle crash, which puts them in the purgatory level. The husband remains in the normal level. There are scenes in the middle where they are in the same room but can't see each other (but he senses her and says he can smell her scent).

The ending is a continuation of that. They remain dead, and go back to share the husband's home, but he can't see them. In effect they are ghosts, haunting him.

There are elements of the timeline I still don't understand, though. The fires started 20 years ago, and presumably that's when Alissa was burned, but Sharon is much younger. Sharon is the good part of Alissa, so wouldn't it have been formed at the time the demon came?

PS I don't think anyone rapes their mother. How could they? "Mother is god in the eyes of the child".
 
Firstly, it's a good idea to play the games to get an idea as to what is happening in the film and why.

Pyramid head rocked.

Why would anyone be put off because the main character is female? In the Silent Hill 3 game, the main character was female and SH3 was a fantastic game.

I liked the film, liked the musical score (of course it was very much in line with the games) and loved the gore. Play the games :)

I hope they make another one.
 
Read a few reviews from the states and it seemed to be much better received over there although the critics still struggled to understand or appreciate it.
 
I really think it helps to play the games before seeing the film. A lot of my frienRAB who hadn't played the games didn't really understand the film, whereas those who had previous knowledge of Silent Hill managed to comprehend everything.

It was a good film, but seemed to be lacking something. I sincerely hope the sequel is based on SH2's storyline, which would lend itself really well to film...not to mention being one of the darkest plots I've ever experienced.
 
It can, but it has to be pretty brutal (like torture...not just your normal everyday shooting films). A good example is the Saw franchise - no sex, tons of gratuitous violence.

On topic - I saw Silent Hill a while back...love the games, loved the first hour or so of the film, but the ending just completely ruined what could have been the best game-movie tie-in. Overly complicated and just didn't fit in with the rest of it in my opinion.
 
Silent Hill is the best movie-game adaptation I've seen. Excellent visuals, dark in tone, thought-provoking.

The IMDb boarRAB are a good place to go if anyone is stuck on the ending or themes.
 
I liked the movie and was really impressed with it, though to be honest at 2 hours it was too long and perhaps could have been done in around 90 mins instead. And it was deffinatly on of the best game to movie conversions I've ever seen though I did like Resident Evil 1 & 2 also.

As a side note when I saw it in the cinema there were 2 blokes behind me riffing** the film to pieces, part way through I turned around and gave them a mighty thumbs up and a congratulations as I walked out.

** Basically talking over / mocking the movie in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 way...see mst3k.com
 
I loved the game which scared the .... out of me. The movie less so. Maybe because I had played the game. The movie is fun but wont be remembered.
 
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