His arrogance flairs as he cynically views the post card. The card simply reads “Do not stay in room 1408”. He comes across a postcard with a photo of the Dolphin Hotel in New York City. In an early scene, Enslin is sorting mail in his dreary, colorless home office. The writer sets out to show us just how small we are. We believe we have outgrown the need for God or anything supernatural. We think we know everything there is to know and have become very cynical. The core position of the movie is that man has become arrogant and over confident. In the end he is left with only two options, stay in room 1408 and be tortured for eternity, or take the easy way out and kill himself. He comes face to face with his own demons. He is forced to face his greatest fears and weaknesses. In room 1408 he is tortured by the images in his own mind. Even if they did, there is no GOD to protect us, is there”? He is truly a man who has lost his faith. In the beginning of the movie he claims “I’m not afraid of ghost and goblins, they don’t exist. He has come to the conclusion that there is no afterlife, and no such thing as God.
He ridicules the people and history of every location he investigates. Enslin is a cynical, sarcastic, and arrogant man. In every case he finds the same thing, absolutely nothing. He travels to various locations around the country where people claim to have experienced some form of paranormal activity. The main character in the movie is Mike Enslin, played by John Cusack (imdb). The story is based on a short story written by Steven King and directed by Mikael Hafstrom. 1408 is a movie about a published writer of supernatural phenomena who finally finds what he is looking for, the real thing.
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