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Starr
Just Passing Through
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Post subject: The "Hands" in the hospital. |
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Missing since: 23 Dec 2009 Notes left: 23 Last seen at: Purgatory
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I didn't see this in quicklinks, but I'm sorry if this has been posted before...
Anyways, the room where you get dry cell batter in the hospital. There are "hands" right below it and when you examine it, James says something like: Are these hands searching for something? Or are they a sign of pain?
Can anybody tell me what they think the "hands" painting thing symbolizes/represents/the significance please? I've always wondered about this.
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Mis Krist.
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Missing since: 27 Aug 2003 Notes left: 12943 Last seen at: The Wand'ring Wood
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Well, James really did need those batteries in the end...
ETA @ 10:42 - Man, I have no memory of writing this post. Uh, well.. the hands could be clawing their way out or they're all bent and scraggly to signify, well, torment. I don't think there's really much thought needed here. Just hands on the wall. Connect them to James, to Mary, to both or all of the characters if you want. I personally think it's just a nice artistic representation of the gravitas found within the game, like the woman painted on the door (to which you have to add rings).
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simeonalo
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Missing since: 27 Jul 2009 Notes left: 3535
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I'm pretty sure it signifies how James actually needed those batteries, like how the hands were "grabbing" on to them.
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Burning Man
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Missing since: 15 Jul 2003 Notes left: 2368
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Konami has alluded the hands to be the souls lost at Toluca Lake.
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Starr
Just Passing Through
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Missing since: 23 Dec 2009 Notes left: 23 Last seen at: Purgatory
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I've actually never thought about that^^^^^ excellent theory.
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carneeval
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 26 Apr 2009 Notes left: 444
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A bundle of things seem to point towards James's guilt towards killing Mary (Things about sin, being hung for crimes, ect) This could be another pointer towards his subconscious belief of what he deserves for killing Mary, suffering and such. Just a theory though.
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Most people say Henry's a pervert because of looking through the peephole to Eileen's room, but here's the thing: Your not required to do that, it's the players choice.
So whose the pervert now ?
((Apparently you can OD on Green Tea...And it's painful.))
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Mephisto
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Missing since: 12 Feb 2009 Notes left: 8073
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It's like "the sinners (hands) are trying to reach the salvation" (the battery, the light). That's what I thought anyway, since James comments by looking at it again that it looks like a symbol of suffering.
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Aric - The Reaper
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Missing since: 20 Jun 2009 Notes left: 525 Last seen at: Silent Hill - Otherworld
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the hands can be of those lost souls, searching for light or forgiveness, James' suffering or trying to grasp reality
_________________ Lost within this town, Silent Hill. It is cursed...much like me. This letter... this feeling.... What darkness lies within my heart? - Silent Hill 6: Reaper - By A.R.
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QuestionSleepZz
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Missing since: 03 Jun 2009 Notes left: 537 Last seen at: New York
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Isn't that about the time you re-meet Maria?
Mary DIED, the batteries DIED, maybe its hinting about the whole rebirth thing going on with Maria...or not lol
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Sergiy
Hope House Careworker
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Missing since: 27 Nov 2009 Notes left: 698 Last seen at: Room 312
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The hospital in general, is pretty Hand oriented, there are rings, hands on the wall, hands on the door, it takes 2 pairs of hands to open the fridge,,,,
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Aric - The Reaper
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Missing since: 20 Jun 2009 Notes left: 525 Last seen at: Silent Hill - Otherworld
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hands hands hands. Or they could me trust and love
_________________ Lost within this town, Silent Hill. It is cursed...much like me. This letter... this feeling.... What darkness lies within my heart? - Silent Hill 6: Reaper - By A.R.
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carneeval
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 26 Apr 2009 Notes left: 444
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Aric - The Reaper wrote: hands hands hands. Or they could me trust and love
Suffering trust and love O.o?
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Most people say Henry's a pervert because of looking through the peephole to Eileen's room, but here's the thing: Your not required to do that, it's the players choice.
So whose the pervert now ?
((Apparently you can OD on Green Tea...And it's painful.))
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Returbuliz
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 03 May 2009 Notes left: 302 Last seen at: Iran
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Representing Mary's hands reaching out while she was being suffocated with the pillow by James.
James finds the flashlight on a mannequin wearing Mary's clothes, then the batteries there, & the hand reaching out of the door in Alternate hospital; I think they're somehow related.
_________________ Not dead which eternal lie, stranger eons death may die
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Mephisto
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Missing since: 12 Feb 2009 Notes left: 8073
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Quote: Representing Mary's hands reaching out while she was being suffocated with the pillow by James.
How could it represent Mary's hands? A normal human being haves only 2 hands (I'm not saying that those that haves only 1 aren't normal) and in the wall there's like 5 or 6 hands if I'm not wrong.
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carneeval
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 26 Apr 2009 Notes left: 444
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Well, they actually have a valid point. Over time James's guilt has ate at him even though he lost conscious of it, it could be representative of that, although Mary was sick and probably didn't have the strength to fight back.
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Most people say Henry's a pervert because of looking through the peephole to Eileen's room, but here's the thing: Your not required to do that, it's the players choice.
So whose the pervert now ?
((Apparently you can OD on Green Tea...And it's painful.))
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Aric - The Reaper
Gravedigger
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Missing since: 20 Jun 2009 Notes left: 525 Last seen at: Silent Hill - Otherworld
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Mary reaching out for him to stop or to save her, many different reasons and all very good points. Turst, love, suffering, remorse...
_________________ Lost within this town, Silent Hill. It is cursed...much like me. This letter... this feeling.... What darkness lies within my heart? - Silent Hill 6: Reaper - By A.R.
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Returbuliz
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 03 May 2009 Notes left: 302 Last seen at: Iran
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Mephisto wrote: Quote: Representing Mary's hands reaching out while she was being suffocated with the pillow by James. How could it represent Mary's hands? A normal human being haves only 2 hands (I'm not saying that those that haves only 1 aren't normal) and in the wall there's like 5 or 6 hands if I'm not wrong.
What I meant was, it symbolically represents...
_________________ Not dead which eternal lie, stranger eons death may die
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Mephisto
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Missing since: 12 Feb 2009 Notes left: 8073
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^I know it's symbolically, but it still doesn't make any sense. At least for me, sorry.
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AuraTwilight
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Missing since: 01 Aug 2006 Notes left: 11387 Last seen at: I'm here, and waiting for you
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In symbolism, you can have as many limbs as you want. Look at Buddha, sometimes he pulls a Vishnu.
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BlackFire2 wrote: I thought he meant the special powers of her vagina.
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Returbuliz
My Bestsellers Clerk
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Missing since: 03 May 2009 Notes left: 302 Last seen at: Iran
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Mephisto wrote: ^I know it's symbolically, but it still doesn't make any sense. At least for me, sorry.
The hands we're talking about, have something in common, in my opinion, & that is 'reaching out'.
So I guess that makes them symbolic in a way, or perhaps (well, definitely) the Alt. hospital door hands have more meanings to them. I'm just pointing out the one that makes sense to me. There are many more explanations to them.
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