"The Shining" tells the story:
In a remote mountain resort in Denver, a large-scale manor-style hotel stands alone. When winter comes every year, the hotel is closed and all the work is done. All personnel were evacuated before the heavy snow closed the mountain. The writer Jack Tarrens (Jack Nicholson) hopes to find a "quiet" place to complete his writing plan, and actively asks to take care of the hotel during the winter closure. The management tells Jack that something terrifying happened in the hotel. Case: The previous caretaker could not bear the loneliness, leading to mental collapse, killing the whole family, and then committing suicide. Jack disagrees with this, so he reached an agreement with the manager to take care of the hotel in winter.
Jack led his wife Wendy and son Danny to this hotel.
At first, everything seemed to be going well. But with the passage of time, the loneliness that this isolated life brings to people gradually spreads between families and is increasing day by day.
Jack’s writing plan did not go well, and serious self-doubt was generated. This self-doubt caused him to tear up all the manuscripts he had written. Annoyed, he blamed his wife’s interference and non-cooperation for the poor writing. People suffocated in a closed hotel unfolded. . . .
There were bruises on Danny's neck, and his wife suspected that it was Jack because there was no one else in the hotel.
Jack, who was extremely lonely and blamed, suddenly heard the noise of people in the hotel. Following the direction of the sound, Jack came to a luxurious and lively hall. A grand party was being held here. Jack was drinking a long-lost cocktail. , And got acquainted with "the last person who took care of the hotel-the waiter-the person who has died" and learned the truth about the death of their family.
Constantly moving house makes his son Danny always have no fixed friends. The lonely Danny can only talk to the fantasy villain Tony who lives in his mouth, and often has terrible hallucinations. For the children, wife Wendy decided to leave the hotel early. But it was strongly opposed by Jack. After a crazy argument, his wife Wendy knocked Jack to the ground with a bat.
Is it an illusion? Still supernatural? If extreme loneliness makes people suspicious of themselves and the environment, then inner evil causes the only rational control to completely collapse.
The abnormal weather made this year’s wind and snow extremely fierce, heavy snow closed the mountain, communication interrupted...In this isolated mountain, in the huge and empty hotel, everyone feels that the danger is coming, and This danger comes from their closest person. Jack finally waved an axe at his wife and son... This
film is changed from the famous horror suspense novel writer Stephen King (Stephen.king) of the same name. Although Stephen King was dissatisfied with the film "The Shining", "The Shining" is undoubtedly one of Kubrick's most successful film works. As a horror film, no one has surpassed it.
Every successful film has a wonderful story. There is no doubt about it. With the help of the film's rich performance skills and unique narrative methods, the viewers are addicted to it. As a commercial genre, horror films are filmed by many directors in Hollywood in Europe and America, including classics. The reason why I think that Cushman’s horror films are unmatched is because I have never seen it before: without resorting to any bloody or even disgusting visual stimulation, just relying on the connection of the very life-like, even seemingly dull, shots. Push your sense of fear to the extreme, leaving you guilty and fearful, and your soul out of your body. Obviously, Kuo’s "The Shining" did it. This is a sensory experience that challenges the limit. It is a kind of fear that slowly rises from the bottom of my heart and gradually permeates the whole body...
If you are just "frightened", no matter how severe the fright is, it can only show that you are just a preliminary stage of watching movies. The reason why a master becomes a master, rather than an ordinary film director, is that the difference is: the master always uses a wonderful story to carry as many themes as possible on its structure, so that the work has more directivity. Of course It also contains the views of the master himself. The master hopes that while we experience the senses, it will cause us to think. So, what are the masters thinking behind Ku’s "The Shining"? Or remind us of something to think about?
While modern civilization is extremely rich in material life, what by-products does it bring to us? And how harmful are these by-products? I think this is what "The Shining" tells us that
we can analyze the main elements in the film one by one.
Father: Jack Tarrens, once a teacher, is extremely disdainful of the bottom of society such as cleaners or coolies. He is in a work crisis and hopes to change the situation by completing the writing plan. Although he hopes to find a "quiet" environment to complete the writing plan, he will never be indifferent to the murder in the hotel, otherwise he will not reappear the image illusion of the "homicide" in the future, but is forced by the writing plan or Due to the pressure of social competition, he had to bring his family and children to this isolated hotel, thereby forcing his family to be isolated from the outside world. The rare wind and snow and the interruption of communication objectively strengthened the effect of this isolation. I wrote a thick stack of manuscripts but repeated one sentence: All work and no play makes jake dull boy (work and no entertainment makes myself a dull person). Does Jack like this life? Obviously I don't like it, but when his wife asked to leave the hotel because of his son Danny's health problems, Jack sternly refused. Does Jack not love his children? Obviously not. There is only one reason: Jack hopes to succeed in his career. So, for success, any price can be paid!
Son: Danny. Frequent moving makes Danny have almost no fixed friends. Of course, he can’t talk about communication. Danny is very lonely and can only talk to Tony, the villain in his mouth, and his parents think it’s just very Usual self-talk. Danny never tells others his inner secrets and terrible hallucinations, including his parents and doctors, because Tony (his heart) would not let him do this (is this still a healthy child?), extremely lonely and autistic Danny is very sensitive (this is a common feature of patients with mental illness), so sensitive that he can perceive other people’s minds and infer other people’s behavior. Black chefs are also very sensitive, so that they have a sense of psychology with little Danny (shinning) This is the commonality of socially disadvantaged groups. Blacks are undoubtedly the representatives of disadvantaged groups in American society.
Wife: Wendy, even with her husband and son, Wendy feels lonely. She hopes to keep in touch with the outside world through wireless communication. She also hopes to leave here early. When she learns that her husband has destroyed the communication equipment, she will only be able to use it. Means of transportation—snowmobile destruction, these remaining tools to keep in touch with the outside world, Wendy’s insecurity has reached its limit. Even her husband can’t make her feel safe. She has to carry a bat with her when she feels threatened. Waved to her husband... the
labyrinth, a large-scale labyrinth, seems to be orderly and distinct, but once you enter it, it is difficult to find an exit. It is a metaphor for modern civilization, and a high wall is like The rules in reality are the same, they are difficult to cross, and objectively they have the effect of isolation.
The hotel, as shown in the movie, is luxurious and has everything you need, and what people actually need is very few compared to what people have. The huge scale is like a person's innate and endless desire to possess, just like Jack said: the feeling of familiarity with the hotel. The big and empty hotel like a maze does not bring people the pleasure of material enjoyment, on the contrary it deepens people's loneliness and helplessness.
Donner Party: also known as the Donner Party, a legend of cannibalism in American history. It happened in the western pioneering period in the 1840s. During the gold rush, 87 people were trapped in Donnerhu. After the food was consumed, he began to eat the people who died of natural freezing to maintain their lives. When the rescue came the next spring, only 47 survived.
Room 237: 23 and 37 are forbidden numbers in the Bible. For Kubrick, who was born as a Jewish immigrant family, he knew the meaning of these numbers.
In the 1950s, the United States conducted a solitary experiment. The test subjects are a group of hired students.
At the beginning of the experiment, in order to create an extreme state of loneliness, the experimenters shut these students in a small room with soundproofing devices and asked them to wear translucent goggles to minimize visual stimulation. Then, let them wear kapok gloves and put a long cylinder on their cuffs. In order to limit various tactile stimuli, the experimenter placed an inflatable rubber pillow under the head of each test subject. Except for meals and excretion, the test subject must lie in bed for 24 hours, so that the test subject enters a state where all feelings are deprived.
As a result, despite the high rewards for participating in the test, almost no one can hold on to this loneliness experiment for more than 3 days. It is said that by the 4th day, the test subject will experience symptoms such as shaking hands, unable to walk straight, slow response speed, sensitivity to pain, and hallucinations.
For the test subjects, the first 8 hours could hold up anyway, after that, some people whistled or talked to themselves, showing irritability. In this state, even if he was asked to do simple things after the experiment, he would make frequent mistakes and unable to concentrate. It is said that it will take more than 3 days after the experiment to return to the original state.
This is why everyone in the film has hallucinations to varying degrees. Although some viewers think this is a ghost film, I prefer it to be a horror film that describes the crisis of human reality rather than supernatural phenomena. Everything is born from the heart. The supernatural phenomena in the film are nothing more than the subjective hallucinations of the characters. : Suspicion gives birth to dark ghosts)
Every film of Ku’s seems to contain the theme of desire and fear. His first feature film is named "Fear and Desire". There is no doubt that "The Shining" is also a theme of this kind. The film, and what Kushner is exploring, is the real cause of human desire and fear.
Loneliness is a common problem in modern society. If "The Shining" is regarded as a live broadcast of the loneliness experiment, then modern civilization is a solitary production line on a larger scale. Frequent mobility, competition, unemployment, order, indifference, isolation, environmental degradation, etc., while modern society is highly rich in material, it also deprives and distort human instincts. These modern civilizations No matter how rich the material is, the damage to the human mind cannot be made up for.
As Kubrick said in an interview: "The greatest good and the greatest evil in the world come from people, but the problem is that people cannot distinguish the differences from each other in order to meet their goals." It is not so much that the movie "The Shining" has brought us. Horror, it is better to say that terror itself is rooted in our hearts, and "The Shining" just digs out terror from our hearts and shows us nakedly. Therefore, the real crisis of mankind sometimes comes from itself. This film, released in 1980, still arouses people's thoughts today?
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