Alistair said that if Ben did not agree to be his last willing soul, he would continue to haunt Gabbie and Travis. However, I get the feeling that after a while they would no longer be scared of him, just fed up XD
This dude, he is something coded, and I love it, like I genuinly felt so much like him.
The way he rambles, the way he is damn passionate and how he hates speaking to people except that small group he does like.
Like he literral prefers to deal with the ghost tormenting him, than to talk to one of his neighbours, one of his biggest fears is a bed and breakfast for god's sake, I just love him so much.
Like i genuinly love him, even in the start, where he is clearly in a bad place due to loosing his wife, like even then I identified so much with him.
The way he just tries to ignore everything, the way he denies being in a bad place to others, and may projecting a bit, but it felt like he was also lying to himself.
But even then he continued Alyssa's tours, the thing she loved so much, even if he didn't believe in that.
And the way he grieves, I just love how healthy the portrayed it, and the fact that they didn't resort to make him this aggresive and angry black man, like yeah, he is gruff, but he is still a person who is grieving.
The way they also didn't really force a romance between Ben and Gabbie, because like there is just so much going on, and I don't thing any of them is ready for that, because Ben just started actually procesing his grief and has support for the first time in quite a while after the death of his wife, and Gabbie who also lost her husband a year ago, but also how she is clearly focused on her son at the moment.
I do ship them, but I like the fact that they are clearly giving them time to actually develop a romatinc relationship.
Also the fact that Ben seems to genuinly care for Travis, but not in the "I want to get with your mom" way, but in a genuine way, like he sees Travis as Travis, not just as Gabbie's son.
And it may just be me, but I do feel that the movie in more than one scene, is a sort of alegorie? One of people reaching out to prevent their friend (Ben) from ending his life, because the last soul must be a willing soul, aka someone who willingly takes their life.
And everytime Ben's grief is talked about one character or the other makes sure to reassure him, that it's alright to grieve, and that thye are there for him.
Some parallels between Alistair Crump and Travis:
1) Alistair lost his mother at 9 years old, and Travis lost his father, and is also 9 years old
2) Alistair cried at his mother's funeral, but instead of encouraging his son to continue to grieve, his father called him weak for showing that kind of emotion. Travis, on the other hand, had yet to grieve properly for his father, but Ben - being like a father figure - encouraged Travis to express those feelings of sadness.
3) Alistair was shunned by everyone else in the community, and Travis experiences that same kind of isolation at school with other kids bullying him.
The biggest difference between the two is that, unlike Alistair, Travis had people around him who cared about him, who did not put money and greed before the benefit of a child.
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