Knock At The Cabin (2023) VS Book The Cabin at the End of the World

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00:00 Intro
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01:14 The Movie Ending
3:00 The Book Ending
06:01 Key Differences
13:45 Messages & Meanings
23:47 My Ending & Theories

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@serenacelestine
12.06.2025
Just a key thing to add about the Trolley Problem: the trolley is going to hit the group of people if the subject chooses not to act. So inaction is still technically an action, even if you feel more removed from the consequences. Similarly with the family here; they can choose to stand by until time has run out, but that is still a choice in itself.
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@goblin_corpse
03.04.2025
I really wish I could get on with Tremblay's books, he always has such an interesting premise but I just don't gel with his writing style. I hope that this adaptation does well so more of his stuff gets the big (or small) screen treatment, that way I can scratch my Tremblay itch (ew) without having to read his stuff. 😅😂
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@jtru0
03.04.2025
I read the book decided not to watch the movie. Poor little Wen. Glad she survived the movie version! Ha. I agree this story needs an ambiguous ending.
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@Charmer2011
03.04.2025
fell asleep in cinema watching this crap
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@VolcanoGroupie
02.04.2025
This video is why I appreciate you and your channel so much - you put in the extra effort to read the novel and then meticulously compare the film and book. Thanks so much!
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@masteronionnorth2341
02.04.2025
Saw the movie earlier.
I liked it overall although I thought some scenes felt glossed over and rushed. I didn't like the ending, especially the diner scene...

The apocalypse should have been more ambiguous. The TV coverage while horrific was also.. Kinda of empty. Felt off to me.
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@norbertoaguiar2284
02.04.2025
I enjoyed the movie. It's fucking wonderful to see gay characters leading a movie and portrayed as normal people with a family. I just did not like the ending. I agree. I like the idea of it ending with them getting away, driving off into a backdrop of ominous clouds and lightning and fade to black and leaving it ambiguous. I was convinced they were all completely unhinged mentally ill fanatics and it was creepin me out so much and triggering. Great video and ideas Emma.
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@deanchaudhri8781
17.03.2025
I thought the book was 5 stars but the movie i have to give 3 stars - it felt a lot less tense, and a lot more surface level and just fell a bit flat - i think they couldve made this movie a lot more disturbing and deep but decided to make it more basic to appeal to a wider audience :/
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@danielsweet858
17.03.2025
Thanks as always Emma! 🙃👍
Enjoyed the movie (very much) & will check out the novel.
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@mikenri6
17.03.2025
How i took it as : Sodom and Gomorrah were two legendary biblical cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sin. They are mentioned frequently in the prophets and the New Testament as symbols of human wickedness and divine retribution, and the Quran also contains a version of the story about the two cities. The legend of their destruction may have originated as an attempt to explain the remains of third-millennium Bronze Age cities in the region, and subsequent Late Bronze Age collapse. ..MY TAKE--> THE TWO GUYS REPRESENTATIVED WICKENESS ...mike n ri
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@mikenri6
16.03.2025
EMMA" I do ENJOY your vids..keep em coming, mike n ri
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@chloemai29
16.03.2025
think i might have to read the book after watching this today! i enjoyed the movie on the whole but just felt like i wanted more the whole time… i know they were leaving it ambiguous for a reason but i almost wish they’d showed some of their visions for what was about to happen to humanity to really amp up the stakes?? i thought the ending was a bit disappointing too, and i didn’t really understand why all those people were sitting so casually in the gas station seemingly unbothered by everything that had happened?!
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@mikenri6
16.03.2025
oh oh, doesn't great parents say: don't talk to STRANGERS and STAY away from STRANGERS , emmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm , mike n ri
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@MegaMac464
15.03.2025
I have to say I really prefer the movie ending to book by a mile. I think there are so many stories already about killers or crazy people that use religion as a justification for their mental illnesses and things like that, but there are very few stories where the religious aspects are actually undeniably true. I think removing the ambiguity allows us to ask deeper questions. Think of the perspective of our two surviving characters: how will they possibly go on like this? Living in a world where they know the existence of a god who constantly asks humanity to prove its worth over and over again by torturing a select few to decide the fate of them all. And even more questions arise when we think about what that means to god. Why does god behave the way it does? Is the god that watches over us the god that also created us? Or is their more to that as well? In the book if we never get an answer to was it real or was it not then that becomes the only question we ask, and doesn’t allow us to go deeper into one choice or the other. Also as a side note I’m extreme glad the movie did not kill Wen because I can not for the life of me see how that serves the story in any way and feels like something done for shock value
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@mirofarrakis
15.03.2025
I saw this tonight, and as I was leaving the theater, no joke, the song playing on the radio when I started my car was "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
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@dm8595
15.03.2025
Excellent comparison and deep dive into both. 100% with you on the ending. It absolutely should have ended with Andrew and Wen leaving, cut to black. I would’ve liked Eric to live too, but Wen surviving made me deeply happy and forgiving of the movies greater foibles. I was so devastated and angry when she was killed in the book it ultimately felt like a pointless read to me by the end.
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@truthandreality8465
10.03.2025
Another bad British garbage junk propatainment movie impossibly reset into an American setting, like the phony British author of the bad British book, that NO real existing person will ever see or hear of. It doesn't work and it doesn't make sense, especially impossibly set into an American setting of all places, but the movie "industry", propatainment, is famously and notoriously empty and dead so this kind of British transplant fiction doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.!!!!!!!!
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@yourmotherwasahamster8875
10.03.2025
Thank you thank you for suggesting Tremblay's "Head Full of Ghosts" as it was the scariest book I've read in decades!
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@passagesstaffdayprogram7556
10.03.2025
Thanx for breaking down the differences between the book and movie, if M Night Shyamalon's films all connect with each other then i have a theory that the diner at the end is the same diner at the end of Split
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@alexs1803
03.03.2025
As a gay guy this book adaptation made me so sad.
The book made me feel seen because at its core we were following the emotions and love of two gay dads and their daughter.
I felt like the adaptation regards this aspect which just made me
so sad. At the end of the movie I had more sympathy for the intruders than our main characters. And of course they cut out the cute male affection we get in the book.
This story is not about the fucking apocalypse or if it is real or not! Or at least for me it wasn’t. Why did the writers and m night shamalan change it in this way ? The ambiguous book is way better than the movie for me. I wish I never watched the adaptation since the book means so much to me.
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@Bookfidelity915
03.03.2025
I thought the same thing about Leonard being a bartender. Honestly, I thought that either the group was in on it (Leonard being the bartender, Redmond the one who assaults, Sabrina the one who healed him at the hospital, throw in Adrian somewhere), or they were all playing a part in Andrew's mind because they were actually in a car accident on the way to the cabin (Daddy Eric is very distracted in that driving scene). I really didn't want Wen to be the one that dies in the book. I literally gasped when I read that part. I had started the book, watched the movie halfway through and was surprised to see the second half of the book was completely different.
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@brianng8350
03.03.2025
Thanks for the additional video since I did not read the book.

I enjoyed the movie because it was not overly complex. I think that is where Mr Shyamalan's other movies failed because all the surprise reveal or twist just did not stick.

And I loved that Mr Shyamulan gave us definite answers. I hated the ambiguity of the book.

As to what you wished, I think you would have gotten more hate if Leonard and Redmond were conspiring the whole thing - people will say this is "woke" movie and liberal media trying to shove gay lifestyle to everyone. The comparison would be too close to reality. So, I think Mr Shyamalan did the right thing staying away from trigger some people.

As for the butterfly effect, I think that would be more like Men In Black or what Mr Shyamalan would do as a twist and I would have hated it... hahaha... I really like that he kept this movie simple. I understand the ending might not be as rewarding, but as a thriller, I had fun while watching it without thinking about the messages of the movie or the book.
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@ezzz666
02.03.2025
Hi Emma, big fan of your videos writing from spain! Maybe you've watched them but I wanted to recommend you As Bestas and Mantícora, two spanish films nominated to our awards (the Goya), they are not strictly horror but I think you'd like to check them out! love your videos btw
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@Bowl01986
02.03.2025
"If you keep being a family, I'm gonna burn the whole world." No one should have sacrificed anyone ever for that misanthropic (and most certainly homophobic) asshole.
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@hiroforce
02.03.2025
There's another way to look at the movie. Sometimes an event comes up that offers a threat that needs to addressed but it's so strange and so out of the ordinary of experience that a portion of the population just refuses to believe it. For example a global pandemic. Or a climate change crisis. So it's people with knowledge and understanding and they are trying to convince others that something is happening, and they need to take drastic action or it will effect everyone. And the people who they are trying to convince won't believe them until the worst case actually happens. It could have been avoided, but wasn't, because of stubbornness and cynicism.
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@Michael-dt1mv
26.02.2025
A fascinating analysis and comparison of the two stories. I have my own opinions, but they’re not relevant to this comment, which is really a question. Why did the family have to be gay? Couldn’t the same story, ending and all, be told had they been a straight couple?

Several friends have pointed out that one reading that the movie invites is that God set up a situation in which the only way the world can be saved (in the movie) is for a gay man to kill his husband. While it seems to me that other readings are possible, this doesn’t seem like the kind of message that should be sent out into the world, especially in the current political environment. (Not to mention how insensitive it is to a minority that, like many others, has endured so much violence and death to get to where they are today) I’d be very interested to read any (rational) arguments about why the couple had to be gay in the movie and the book. Thanks
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@Blkpants
26.02.2025
I just finished the book. Honestly it devastated me. I cried so hard over Wen I wasn't sure I could finish it. I really liked the movie even if the end was a bit of a cop out.
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@jlannnn1234
26.02.2025
I saw this movie tonight, and ran home to watch this video. Thank you for doing this, you always have such a beautiful and insightful way of looking at cinema. I couldn’t wait to hear your thoughts ❤

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