In the End of Silent Hill, why aren't Rose and Sharon back in reality? Are they dead, I mean What is going on?

Contrary to popular belief, no, Rose and "Sharon" are not dead. Rose and her husband weren't able to see each other in the end because they're still in Alessa's alternate dimension, while her husband is in the real world. Here's the deal...





There are three parts of Alessa:





- Alessa (the original body)





- 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, it can only be assumed that she possessed some kind of supernatural power (which in addition to the fact that she had no father, would obviously lead everyone associated with the cult to call her a witch). That being the case, this is what happened:





1) Dark Alessa does not, in fact, take over or possess Sharon at the church. Dark Alessa (the evil side) simply recombines with Sharon (the good side), creating a new and complete "reincarnated" Alessa.





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





3) And as for the ending:





Alessa's plan works -she gets her much deserved revenge on the cultists, Dark Alessa and Sharon recombine and create a newly "reborn" Alessa, and she ends 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 to work with after reuniting her two halves, Alessa can 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 - assuming he even existed - 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 her new loving mommy in her alternate dimension, where she's in control and she feels safe. However, this is also how Dahlia's warning to Rose, "Be careful what you choose," comes to pass. Unfortunately for Rose, this end result means that she is essentially trapped in Alessa's alternate dimension indefinitely.





Hope this helps. :)

In the End of Silent Hill, why aren't Rose and Sharon back in reality? Are they dead, I mean What is going on?
There really is not any right or wrong answer to this ending as everyone has their own opinions on it. Like someone has mentioned, maybe we all will know the real reason in SH2.





There a couple of possibilities-- Rose were dead all along the moment she were in that car accident therefore stuck in the SH universe forever.





Or she might have not 'died'. Remember at the end of the movie Sharon looked straight at Alessa-- what could have happened is that Sharon and Alessa became as 'one' again and Alessa is able to start a new life with a new mommy in her own world the way she wanted it be. She got her revenge on Christabella and the other damned townsfolk so now she can start fresh again. That could been another reason Rose and Sharon were still stuck in alternate Silent Hill (Alessa has control over).





I know it is weird but I hope this answer somewhat clear things up.
Reply:If you remember in the movie Daliah said "Only evil will open and close the door to silent hill." Once the "child" that started the whole thing there opened the door to the other plane of exsistance of silent hill she did not let them back out. Its like one realm of a place and another. Example, the scene where Rose is at the school and her husband is smelling her perfume, they were both there at the same time but on different planes of exsitance. I hope that makes sence. She cannot leave the realm she walked into when she went to silent hill. After reading this it still sounds like it doesn't make sence. Maybe someone else can elaborate on what I have said.
Reply:I think the main reason why they can't leave Silent Hill is b/c the little girl got tainted with evil and in destroying her innocence, the doorway back to the main reality closed. That scene I'm referring to is near the end when the demon girl is cutting everyone up and Rose tells Sharon not to look, the demon climbs up the ladder and Sharon opens her eyes and at that moment, her innocence was destroyed from seeing such evil.
Reply:Yeah, I feel your pain. I thought it was a great movie, but it was hard to fully understand just what the heck was going on at the end. But as another answerer stated, I think they'd been transferred into this alternate SH dimension (like hell, really) that they are now apart of.
Reply:I think they're still stuck in the Silent Hill "universe" (parallel world..thingy.)








But we wont know for sure until SH2. ;3