This movie is not good enough to warrant that much thought or emotion.
Him dying would've been the better ending and given more meaning to Harold's empty life.
It's a wishy-washy cop-out to talk about 'imminent death' (this should ALREADY have killed him, because it WAS typed - you can't retcon it afterwards, because 'imminent death' is already in the book!), and then never bring that death.
It's a lazy, cowardly way to end it after 'shocking' the viewer about killing the character.
Why would the character be REAL anyway, since it's just a character? This hag has both a CURSE of not ever being able to write anything, because it all happens for real (wouldn't it be a great twist to make her a mental patient just IMAGINING she has this power?), and a BLESSING of being basically omnipotent, being able to MOLD REALITY TO HER LIKING and she doesn't ever really use it knowingly to her advantage?
BTW, the whole 'quit smoking' crap was so cringy. If someone smokes, they smoke. Some outsider can't just FORCE them to stop smoking.
Quitting smoking is overrated anyway. It's best to just 'pause' your smoking until you REALLY need it. That way, you're not forcing yourself to do anything too uncomfortable, and you know you can immediately smoke any second you want, so you can relax and that way, you don't HAVE to smoke - just yet. You can smoke 'soon'.
With this tactic (though it has to be REAL, not a gimmick - you have to find something you enjoy better than smoking, like smelling the fresh nature in the morning), you can always prolong your next cigarette 'a little bit', and a second can become a minute, a minute can become an hour, and eventually, the hours can accumulate until you go to sleep.
Quitting is psychologically a 'struggle', a strain, stress and energy drain that only makes your mind more attached to the things you already seemed to have conquered. Pausing is easy, you can do -that- with any bad habit, even if you pause only for 0.5 seconds.
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