The Importance of Waiting Out the Candle

I feel like also there's the implication that they were going to stop regardless, right? That he says to them that once the spirit, if it does get into the real world, the strength that eventually fades and it just... It has to go. Do you think that's what happened with the kid? Because the belief of all the other kids is that when he was possessed, they didn't blow out the candle afterwards. Nobody can remember if they did that or not. But I think... It might have just happened. We don't really know, but that might have happened. Anyway, harrowing ending. Also, is this movie a metaphor for like kids doing meth? Or something?

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