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Personally, I think this movie is not above my expectations, or even a little below my expectations. Let me talk about the part that I think echoes:
1. Cannibals: Those wizards specialize in killing people to absorb souls. I think a group of soul-sucking (how is it a bit like Harry Potter's Eater of Souls?) immortal wizard-like folks are a bit unimaginative and feel like they know what to expect (maybe I'm being too tricky). Back in The Shining, Danny talks about cannibals when he goes to the hotel with his parents. This is an echo, but I don't understand what the meaning is.
2. Danny's lingering nightmares when he grew up echoed The Shining.
3. In the end, Danny was burned to death in the hotel, which is also an account of his past memories, and there will be no next generation of Jack to take care of the hotel (in fact, this cycle was broken in The Shining, because Danny's second Personality Tony saves Danny and Wendy, breaking the cycle of wives and children being killed by their husbands.)
Next, let's talk about why it didn't meet my expectations.
1. The movie begins in 1980, the year The Shining was released, and the year the story of The Shining took place. In addition to the hotel being a magical place during the year, wizards (should also be people with Shining abilities) can't be ignored. This is very psychedelic. The Shining Hotel gives people a sense of spatial isolation (the hotel's empty lobby, quiet can only hear the sound of snow outside the window and the sound of typing on a typewriter) and a sense of time isolation (Jack's family takes over the job of taking care of the hotel is a big deal. half a year), thereby driving people crazy, and the Jack family are all Shining capable people, everything they see is seen through the Shining, and wizards are real supernatural humans (not even humans) .
2. The narration in the middle part of the film is slow (it makes me fall asleep), and there is no clear sense of Shining (the rhythm is clear, the narrative is clear.) The rhythm of the film is highlighted by the speed of the heartbeat and the lack of orchestral music. Tension, but I also have the illusion that my pulse seems to be beating along with it, and maybe Mike Flanagan is deliberately trying to play his own style, unlike Stanley Kubrick.
3. The climax of the movie, Danny took the black girl into the hotel 39 years ago (I was surprised that the heating device in the hotel was in good condition after many years, it can still be turned on, and finally burned the hotel) and confronted the witch Rosie , and finally released all the ghosts in the memory to defeat Rosie, but he was also behind bars. Danny's Shining Box is like Pandora's Box, once opened it can't be closed. After being eroded by the ghosts, Danny almost became the original Jack, chasing and killing the black girl, but the black girl convinced Danny with trust, and escaped smoothly when Danny was awake, and finally became the narrator of this story.
But, having said all that, I don't mean to belittle Doctor Sleep, after all, this movie is not comparable to Kubrick's The Shining. I just said my opinion.
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