"The Shining" (also translated "Illusion" or "Gloom") in 1980 looked like a pure horror film on the surface, and the film critics at the time did not show much kindness to this film. But perhaps it is precisely through this film that allows us to see Kubrick's most direct and thorough criticism of American society. In winter, the hero Jack takes his wife Wendy and son Danny to guard the empty house in a large hotel in Colorado called "Overlook" (the word also means "ignorance" or "tolerance"). Soon after arriving here, Danny saw a lot of strange things, the most terrifying sight to him was like blood pouring from a gate pouring out of the elevator door and flooding the corridor. He also saw the apparition of twin sisters who had died under the axe. Jack slowly became crazy and wanted to kill his wife and son. He killed the black chef who came over. Finally he chased his son Danny with an axe. In the deep snow-covered labyrinth, Danny concealed his footprints and fled back to his mother, while Jack was lost and froze to death. "The Shining" is a film that needs some annotations, because it does have something Kubrick hinted to the audience. To put it simply, we can regard it as a film about genocide. The film exposes the truth about the massacre of Indians by American whites, and at the same time shows us the evil results it brings. Although this criticism is always subdued below the narrative level, Kubrick uses the most unmistakable symbol in many places. When he first arrived at the hotel, the black chef took Wendy to visit the hotel. In the very spacious storage room, I saw all kinds of food on the shelves. Among them, a flour with the trade name /Calumet0 is particularly eye-catching. In fact, this trademark is a kind of pipe used by Indians, and it is a symbol of peace on many occasions. For example, as the saying goes, smoke the calumettogether means to get along with each other in harmony. In addition, in this hotel, we can see Indian decorations, such as wall hangings, carpets, etc., which appear as backgrounds in many important scenes. Soon after the film began, the hotel manager Haroun told Wendy: The location of this hotel turned out to be an Indian cemetery. I believe that when they built it, they must have to deal with the attacks launched by the Indians! Obviously, this The magnificent and well-stocked hotel has become a symbol of American society here, and the most cruel and bloody things have ever happened here. Some people know these facts and ignore them, Some people simply forget that this happened in their own country. So the name of this hotel also implies that the average Americans "ignore" and "tolerate" this historical fact. This hotel is like this country, built entirely on the blood and corpses after the killing. And this kind of killing is still going on to this day. That was the black chef who died under Jack's axe. His body fell on the floor painted with Indian patterns, showing us that blacks, like Indians, also became victims of fascist violence. At the end of the film is a slow push shot, pushing from the empty hall to the 21 photos hanging on the wall. The shot gets closer and closer, and finally falls on a photo of Jack standing in the front row, and then moves down. We saw the text on the photo: "July 4th 1921 Prom, Yuanwang Hotel". July 4th is the Independence Day of the United States, and various forms of celebration and carnivals are held across the country. However, for Native Americans like Indians, this Independence Day is obviously meaningless. As for what happened in the hotel, only Danny saw it. His mind has not been enlightened, nor has it been polluted. However, it was for this reason that he was chased by his father's generation. In the paranoia of evil thoughts, the parents put the children in the shadow of death. The twin sisters who appeared repeatedly in Danny's hallucinations died at the hands of their father's former hotel caretaker. The killing continues, but it is also constantly forgotten by people. He was chased by his fathers. In the paranoia of evil thoughts, the parents put the children in the shadow of death. The twin sisters who appeared repeatedly in Danny's hallucinations died at the hands of their father's former hotel caretaker. The killing continues, but it is also constantly forgotten by people. He was chased by his fathers. In the paranoia of evil thoughts, the parents put the children in the shadow of death. The twin sisters who appeared repeatedly in Danny's hallucinations died at the hands of their father's former hotel caretaker. The killing continues, but it is also constantly forgotten by people.
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