I never said it was a good film. It's just weird to me how a lot of people are being haters mostly because not a lot of people understand it, and it's a simple plot. It was a "year later" probably because thats when he felt ready to be able to go back to a cabin that meant a lot to his wife---and she said she wanted it to be for Christmas. It was clearly summer at the beginning of the film and in the flashbacks. Everyone is making it out to be more complicated than it really is. I said "a couple" things were clever. The whole thing wasn't some crazy mess just because some people don't get it.
Proving that the film, while not being a great one actually does make sense and has a couple clever psychological hallucinations isn't me giving it tons of praise. It's just annoying when people are such haters because they don't get it. And it's even spelled out for everyone in more than just the script. I even said in my "whole description" that I would have bought it more had the meds been something different. I definitely have my own complaints, and the lead actor was pretty bad. The kids were better. It's a simple plot, parts of it were executed cleverly and most of it was boring, and yes far fetched because he would never hallucinate like that with that kind of medication. However I do appreciate psychological thrillers/horror films so I give it credit for not just being a haunted house. Because it wasn't. There was one spirit and that was the mom. The ending can be up for interpretation though as far as thinking whoever pulled back the curtain was the spirit of the mom or not. That makes more sense than it just being a randomly haunted house which would also be stupid and negate what the actual film is supposed to be about.
And yes all his flashbacks were probably of the day she died---which also makes sense. When you ask howcome it never explained why they never went away I don't know what you mean by mean.
I do think the film could have taken many different directions----as it was going, I thought of a lot of different things it could have been, but it all would have been cliche. I don't find movies that end up being a dream or hallucination a cop out---but it's psychologically interesting. Like Vanilla Sky, great film yet everyone thinks the ending is a cop out. I for one got goosebumps, because how effing creepy is it that he didnt know he was dead and they hooked him up to something he can dream in for the rest of his life but not have any control over. It was an interesting film.
However, just because I am saying it makes sense doesn't mean i don't agree with you in that it's not a great film. But I've seen way worse horror movies.
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