This is the most fasinating film made by this director. It starts out with us being introduced to the torrence family that will be living in the Overlook hotel for the winter. Right away we find out that Jacks son is telepathic or something of that sort. We also are told that the hotel manger killed his family and himself. The Torrence family lives fine for the first few weeks and then strange things go a foot at Overlook hotel. Jack and his son Danny start seeing ghosts and what not throughout the hotel. Then Jack goes mad and starts to attack Danny and Wendy. The summer caretaker has a dream murder at the hotel and he rushes back to see whats up. Jack kills him and chases his son into a labrynth where jack gets lost and we see him the next morning forzon to death. then kubrick cuts to a picture at a new years party in 1920 and we see jack in the center smiling.
the weird thing about this film is that it is not about ghosts at all. Its all abouts The film is trying to show us how alchol abuse can turn a person into a monster. we see how Danny gets frightend when his dad loses it. Kubrick used mirrors when ever a ghost was present. given us the idea that maybe jack is not seeing ghosts but is just losing his mind and is just talking to himself. The picture at the end was a huge mind blowing event. what does the picture tell us. in the end it only leaves us with more questions then with answers. i feel like it is saying that jack was just absorbed into the history of the overlook hotel. and that everyone who was in the picture went mad just like him.
2 comments:
Well Matt I never really thought about how alcohol can do that to a person in context of the movie. I didn't really even think about alcohol as playing a part in the movie very much. I do think that you missed a part of the movie with Danny seeing things because that was a very stange whole set of circumstances
Good call on the alchohol. This movie has been eating at me, because i can't understand it for the life of me. That's a really interesting explanation, but i still don't think it fits. Cuz how would the waiter know who he was? i think he was just able to morph both the past and present to make a pasent, and it screwed with everyone. The part where the old woman comes out would be explained by the kid trying to contact the black guy with the shinning cuz it screws with the pasent.
Post a Comment