Postcard?

I don't think it was revealed in the movie who sent the post card. Its one of those mysteries that is left to the viewers imagination. He was given plenty of opportunities to stay away from the room. The obvious warning in the post card. Olin insisting he take another room. The elevator door opening by itself before getting to the room. The thermostat not working. The operator asking if he wanted to check-out. All these things happen before the timer started counting. In my opinion once the timer started he was screwed.

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I thought it was Samuel L Jackson sent the postcard

I think that It was the Room that send the postcard.

Enslin had so many things in his life he had espaced and never really dealed with; The dying of his daughter, his failed marriage, father-son relationship.

I like to believe that the room has always been a place that makes u confront your failures in life and deal with them. And when he finally was ready to move on with all those things, He got away (died or got away from the room, depending on the ending).

So, I don't think that room is completely "evil". It is like a purgatory that burns away the scars deep beneath your skin.

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Who cares? I wish I'd received a creepy postcard urging me to watch this movie. I would have been spooked enough to avoid it and spared 112 min. of overwrought acting, strident music, and horror cliché. John Cusack indulges in voiceover monologuery, or otherwise speaks to himself on camera, more than any actor (with the possible exception of Morgan Freeman). They should collaborate on a film with a static set and dueling commentary. Two voices vying to lull me into slumber as the screen produces nary a flicker of expository image.

I would say that the room, somehow, knew things about Cusack's character and manifested the postcard so that Cusack would come and stay in the room and be its next victim.

This seems to be one of several instances in which the room taunts Cusack's character. The woman with the stroller in the lobby and later in the hallway, the repair man, the opening elevator doors, all things meant to taunt Cusack and to further engage his stubbornness into staying in the room and killing himself or being killed by the room.

Well there is a line near the end to the effect that the haunting thingy encourages free will. I took the postcard as the first trial and the first chance to exert free will. The devil had principles in this movie.

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