"Doctor Sleeper" with the sequel to the title "The Shining" has been released. How do you say it? If you compare "Doctor Sleeper" and "The Shining" directly, it feels difficult to compare.
The status and achievements of "The Shining" today, coupled with director Stanley Kubrick, made "The Shining" a masterpiece of art, and "Doctor Sleeper" as a pure sequel to "The Shining", Obviously it is difficult to climb the peak of the horror film originator in the history of "The Shining".
In addition, if you haven’t watched "The Shining" or if you have forgotten about it, the threshold for watching "Doctor Sleeper" will be higher because the plots of "Doctor Sleeper" and "The Shining" are very connected, but everyone Don't worry, I have already done an in- depth analysis of "The Shining" 4D earlier. If you have n't watched it yet, go and see it.
So let’s look at it from another angle. From the perspective of the original author, Stephen King, "Doctor Sleeper" is closer to the original novel. The style is very Stephen King. The film removes the mysterious and suspenseful tone of "The Shining", let alone heavy metaphors and Irony, faster pace of narration, more bizarre imagination.
Having said that, "Doctor Sleeper" is more suitable for the audience of fast-paced life today, and the action scenes are more intensive and exciting. It is undoubtedly a commercial blockbuster. But putting aside these established Hollywood hits, "Doctor Sleeper" itself is a very high-quality work. Even though I watched it with high expectations, the film still did not disappoint me.
"Doctor Sleeper" is more than two and a half hours long, but it doesn't make people feel tedious and boring, and the narrative is always online. Because of such a long film length, there is more time to show the growth and transformation of Danny's characters, and more time to completely shape other characters.
In order to let everyone better understand my analysis, I will start the storytelling mode. The following all involve spoilers, 3, 2, 1.
The background of the story of "Doctor Sleeper" is placed after what happened to Danny's previous hotel, the shining shadow in his heart has been haunting him, and some of the spirits of the hotel have been haunting Danny not willing to leave. But Dick, who had saved Danny and his mother, turned into a spirit body and continued to be Danny's shining mentor, teaching Danny to lock these wraiths into the box.
Danny, who had self-enclosed most of the shining abilities, began to feel depressed mentally. After he became an adult, he followed his father Jack and started drinking to kill his life, becoming a homeless man with nothing to do. Danny later came to a small town, and with the help of a kindhearted person Billy, he got a job cleaning in the nursing home. By chance, Danny could know who the nursing home was with his shining ability. About to pass away, Danny himself has done the job of comforting those who have passed away.
On the other hand, there is a shining cult in this world. They specialize in consuming the shining powerful children and have achieved the effect of immortality. By chance, the cult boss rose discovered that she has been the most powerful of the shining so far. The girl Abra, and Abra also wanted to try to prevent the Shining Cult from continuing to be charcoal. On the other hand, Abra and Danny have been shining aerial pen pals since they were young. When Abra was difficult to rival the shining cult, Abra asked Danny for help and the two shining pen pals met.
At first, Danny wanted to continue to escape and did not want to help, but Dick finally appeared to teach Danny, let Danny assume the greater his ability, the greater the responsibility of the shining superpower, Danny decided to help Abra, overthrow and kill Most people of the Shining Cult. When only the coach Rose was left, Danny used poison to fight the poison and guided Rose to the once full of Wraiths in the Overlook Hotel. Finally, Danny unlocked all the Wraiths in the hotel. After killing Rose, he used the boiler to burn the entire hotel.
However, Danny also sacrificed himself in this duel and turned into a spirit body to wait for Abra. Frankly speaking, after watching "Doctor Sleeper", I always feel that I watched the movie version of "Stranger Things", especially the part in which Abra took a baseball glove to sense it, which is simply a remake of "Stranger Things".
But having said that, Stephen King’s "Doctor Sleeper" novel was published in 2013, and the first season of "Stranger Things" was a script developed only in 2015, so it is really not clear who imitated who really needs to trace back. But for the Chinese culture, in fact, many of the shining's sayings and superpowers in "Doctor Sleeper" can be summarized by our Eastern ghosts and gods. For example, the essence of people with powerful shining is Yang Qi for us. Well, then the people of the cult are actually ghosts in the underworld, who come to the world to absorb yang energy.
The other super powers of the shining can be interpreted as possessing, out-of-body, psychic and other terms. So when I see the shining super powers of "Dr. Sleeper", I always feel that these super power settings are all familiar, but Fortunately, the imagination of the film is very creative when it shows these shining abilities. For example, the first time Rose went out of his body to find Abra, he first made himself like a GPS satellite, searched in the earth orbit, then turned into a reconnaissance plane, and then turned into a drone to drill into Abra’s bedroom. , But the reverse is that Abra set up a trap and got into each other's minds.
In terms of character creation, Danny is fully interpreted, and even in the branch of the film, Danny’s communication of comforting the dying also makes people feel the issue of death and life.
In terms of the relationship between Danny and his father, Danny also mentioned his father’s abstinence when he was abstaining from drinking. When Danny returned to the hotel, he also ran into his father Jack, who worked as a bartender there. Danny finally had a date with his father. Clear boundaries and no longer follow in father's footsteps. If you have read the "The Shining" novel, you will understand that Jack's father was also an alcoholic, which caused Jack to become an alcoholic under the influence of his father, and Danny is the same. It seems that this fate covers this. The bloodline.
When Stephen King wrote "Doctor Sleeper", he also mentioned that the reincarnation of fate and self-resistance are the themes he really wants to express in "The Shining" and "Doctor Sleeper". If the core of "The Shining" is mainly To express curses and reincarnation, then "Doctor Sleeper" is the confrontation and redemption of fate.
In the second half of "Doctor Sleeper", the film uses a very clever way to show the relationship between Danny's reincarnation of fate, redemption, and struggle. When Danny decided to help Abra, he had already decided the fate of his fate. It was a kind of redemptive reincarnation, because in the movie "The Shining", Danny used his shining ability to ask Dick for help, and Dick returned to the hotel to save him. Danny and his mother, and this time Abra also asked Danny for help, and Danny also used his life to save Abra.
In the controversy over fate, Danny has been fighting against the shadow his father Jack gave him. Danny is giving up drinking and making his life more active. When Danny returned to the hotel, he refused his father's temptation.
If you look at "The Shining" and "Doctor Sleeper" in series, the two works will form a big cycle again, starting at the hotel and ending at the hotel. After Danny returns to the hotel, various tributes emerge in endlessly, from lens language to From the scene to the dialogue to the background music, it can be seen that the director is absolutely shining. If you like the audience of "The Shining", you should be very excited to see these tributes.
And interestingly, the hotel was burned out by the furnace explosion at the end of the "The Shining" novel, and the scene was completed in "Doctor Sleeper" at the end. But of course, "Doctor Sleeper" still has its shortcomings. Among them, the actor who played Jack the most was that Jack Nicholson was no longer the actor. Of course, as far as today’s technology is concerned, it restores the original appearance. Jack Nicholson is not a problem at all. The question is whether they should give you the right to use the portrait, and you can not afford the cost of the film.
Obviously the cost of "Doctor Sleeper" is limited, so apart from Jack Nicholson, the rest are like Danny’s mother, Dick, twin sisters, etc. who once appeared in "The Shining". This shouldn’t be It's expensive, but "Doctor Sleeper" is still all played by new actors. Since I had just reviewed "The Shining" the day before, when I saw the characters in "Doctor Sleeper" change their faces, it was quite a play.
In addition to the super powers of the Shining, the film shows too much but lacks the sense of mystery. It should be said that it is not mysterious at all. This also causes the film to lack the interpretation and thinking space of "The Shining", especially the resistance of the Shining ability. At the climax, I felt like I was watching a superhero movie. In general, what I expected in "Doctor Sleeper" is that the shining supernatural power runs through the main line, allowing everyone to see the action thriller scenes that a commercial film should have, but what surprised me is that " "Doctor Sleeper" still tries to maintain the atmosphere of "The Shining", explaining the mystery in "The Shining", and also three-dimensional the emotional world of the characters in the side story.
If you like "The Shining", like the horror and thriller type, "Doctor Sleeper" should be a movie not to be missed this year.
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