As the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's representative horror film "The Shining" 39 years ago, "Doctor Sleep" has received widespread attention since its inception. But after all, "The Shining" is a movie that changed the definition of horror films, and it is also one of Kushen's masterpieces, and as far as its ending is concerned, it doesn't need any sequels to cause the possible situation of a dog-tailed sequel, so "Sleeping" While getting attention, The Doctor is not well regarded by most people. It turns out that skepticism is indeed correct.
"Doctor Sleep" tells the story of Danny Torrance, who escaped from the Peak Hotel with his mother for more than 30 years. With the help of his friends, he suppressed the afterimage of the hotel incident that kept flashing back to his mind, but he couldn't suppress Shining impact on him since. So Danny seeks solace in a small town where he also finds a place for his abilities, using it to appease the fears of people dying of illness. When he bonds with another extremely powerful "The Shining" owner, Abra, he has to face the fears that haunt him for too long and return to the Hilltop Hotel.
The opening and last half hour of this film reproduces most of the classic scenes in the previous film almost exactly one-to-one. Danny walking around the hotel on a wheelbarrow, room 237, the resurrected female carrion in the bathtub, hand in hand in the corridor The twins, the mirrored "REDRUM" on the door, the red rum pouring out along the crack of the door, the door of the room that was chopped down by an axe, the snow maze outside the hotel...all of which mark tributes and memories.
But Doctor Sleep is just a second-rate vampire psychic-themed movie without the final half-hour homage to The Shining classic. Although it is indeed based on the original book, the setting of the villain Rose and her friends played by Rebecca Ferguson is really ridiculous. They are a long-term absorption of the "Shining" ability of children to achieve the purpose of longevity Weird organization. The people in this organization are like a group of vampires, they will jump at the sight of Shining Qi and use it as a source of life support. Not only that, but even the perception of "The Shining" has been rendered as an almighty superpower, so that in this 151-minute film, nearly two hours should be in fantasy movies. The plot of the magician's fighting method, all kinds of psychics, sucking aura, hurting people through the air ("Shining") or something.
"Doctor Sleep" also has a lot of deficiencies in the audio-visual language, the most obvious of which is the use of the soundtrack. Even though part of the film uses the original classic theme melody from "The Shining", it is the soundtrack. Perfection highlights the roughness of the soundtrack, the heartbeat that is used too frequently, and the annoying accent that sounds suddenly without any sense of horror. Even people like me who have never dared to watch horror movies can hardly agree with such a soundtrack.
These low-level settings make this film completely disconnected from the psychological fear that Kubrick wanted to express in "The Shining", filling it with superficial horror style that has not even been successfully expressed. It completely loses the essence of a classic movie, which also makes the perfect reenactment of the last half hour seem awkward and out of place compared to the first and second scenes. The director did not stick to his own style, nor did he inherit Kushen's philosophy well. If this film is only adapted as Stephen King's original work, it may be said that it is indeed a wonderful horror film, but because it is inevitably related to The Shining, which has already been adapted too much, both in and out of the movie ” is related, then it is doomed that the style of the sequel to the master’s work is split and far apart.
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