Can someone explain the Silent Hill movie to me?

Question

I watched silent hill last night, and it was really good. But nothing made sense to me. I understood that the other world came from that girl being burnt. But everything else was really confusing. Can you explain it to me? Wikipedia doesn't help.

Answer 1

Here's how I looked at it:



Contrary to popular belief, no, they're not dead at the end. To elaborate a bit further, I'll explain my take on the movie (get comfortable, it's pretty long). First things first...



There are three different dimensions in the movie**:



- The real world: What we see up until the car crash outside of Silent Hill; the dimension that Chris and Officer Gucci are in



- Foggy Silent Hill: A dimension created by Alessa resembling Purgatory; a place of imprisonment for the cultists and a place of refuge from the real world for Alessa



- Dark Silent Hill: A dimension created by Alessa resembling Hell; a place of punishment for the cultists inhabited by monsters, a representation of Alessa's revenge



**Note - Foggy Silent Hill and Dark Silent Hill are not actually Purgatory and Hell. They're only Alessa's versions of them.



Rose isn't able to get back to the real world because Alessa doesn't want them to leave. Both the foggy dimension and the dark dimension were created by Alessa, so she controls who gets in or out. Remember what Dahlia said to Rose near the beginning of the movie: "Only the dark one opens and closes the door to Silent Hill."



Chris (the father) and Officer Gucci (the cop) don't experience what Rose and the others do because they are in two different but parallel dimensions. Chris and Officer Gucci are in the real world and Rose, Cybil, Sharon and the cultists are in Alessa's alternate dimension. That's why they can be in the same place at the same time and not see each other (e.g. - When Rose runs past Chris and he smells her perfume, and in the end when Rose makes it "home" and Chris can't see her).



And as for the ending, here's the deal...



There are three parts of Alessa:



- Alessa (the burned girl/scarred woman in the oxygen tent)

- Sharon (Alessa's good side)

- Dark Alessa (Alessa's evil side)



Sharon and Dark Alessa are basically manifestations of the two sides of Alessa - the good side and the evil side. As for how Alessa created these manifestations and the alternate dimensions (foggy Silent Hill and dark Silent Hill), it can only be assumed that she possessed some kind of supernatural power, as evidenced by the wilted flowers in her hospital room and her hurting the nurse. Alessa's power was awakened by her growing hate as she suffered in the hospital after being nearly burned to death by the cult. That being the case, this is what happened:



1) Remember that scene during the slaughter of the cultists when Rose tells Sharon to close her eyes and Sharon hesistantly opens them, only to see Dark Alessa staring her in the face? Contrary to what most people think, Dark Alessa did not take over or possess Sharon. It was in that moment that Dark Alessa (Alessa's evil side) reunited with Sharon (Alessa's good side), and became a new and complete reincarnation of Alessa.



2) Alessa's "pact" with her evil half (Dark Alessa) that we saw in the flashback not only ensured that she would help her exact her revenge, but that Alessa, after making herself "whole" again, would also have a second chance at life with a new - and surely in her eyes, better - mother: Rose.



3) In the end, Alessa's plan worked - she got her much deserved revenge on the cultists, Dark Alessa and Sharon recombined and created a newly "reborn" Alessa, and she ended up with Rose (who either isn't aware or just doesn't care that this little girl isn't "her Sharon" anymore) as her new mother. Now with Sharon's memories of the outside world to work with after reuniting her two halves, Alessa could extend her alternate dimension and create a world just like the one Sharon and Rose lived in, where they can stay forever. In other words, Alessa doesn't want them to leave her alternate dimension and in her eyes, for good reason. The real world is where Alessa was hurt, abused and humiliated. In the real world, she felt unsafe, unloved and that the people are untrustworthy (especially men, considering that the absence of her father was the source of her torment, in addition to her horrific experience with the school janitor). Alessa wants to live out the rest of her new life with Rose as her new loving mommy in her alternate dimension, where she's in control and she feels safe. Unfortunately for Rose, this means that she is essentially trapped in Alessa's alternate dimension indefinitely.



If you still have a few questions, be sure to check out the unofficial FAQ over at IMDb:



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/board/thread/148368590



Hope this helps. :)

Answer 2

The little girl was really an alternate reality of the girl that was burned to death. The alternate World was created by her and the woman who led the cult. They got trapped in that World because the little girl looked at the alternate version. That's why they got home at the end, but they weren't really home. If I knew what you didn't get about it then it would be easier to try to explain. I mean sorry but for me it was rather easy to understand so it's hard to sit and explain it when just writing this.



ADD: I wouldn't exactly say that Sharon was born, remember she was adopted from an orphanage. I think she basically came in to existence to bring someone to Silent Hill to change that World. Considering how old she should be as the alter-ego it doesn't have an easy answer. Remember that the movie is somewhat based on a video game and it might help explain some of the problems. As I said at the end the mother told Sharon not to look/watch/whatever the exact word was. She turned her head and looked, and you see the alter-ego NOTICE this. To me that trapped them in Silent Hill as it gave her a chance to "posses" Sharon as well.

Answer 3

From what i was told ( from someone who played through all the games multiple times) was that rose and her child were killed in the car accident. The burnt world of silent hill is actually Hell and rose must make her way through the different levels of Hell to get her daughter. The reason that her husband can smell her while he's in silent hill is because she has not yet passed over and he can 'sense' her. Now at the end when she gets revenge for the little burnt girl, where she kills everyone, she is deemed 'worthy' at the end when they go home she is moving on to heaven. If you look at the end of the movie again you can see how bright the room is(like the light at the end of the tunnel). I hope this helps

Answer 4

Silent Hill, 2006. A woman goes in search for her daughter, within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill. Based on the video game.

Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden and Sean Bean.

After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.