The Shining - Horror seeps into your bones

Ottilie 2022-04-21 09:01:02


Lonely and empty.
Lonely house, lonely people. People will become depressed in loneliness, and the 80-year-old Vision Hotel in "The Shining" seems to have matured, and it is equally depressed during the five-month winter closure period every year. In 1970, the winter caretaker here chopped his wife and two daughters into pieces with an axe and stacked them neatly in the room before committing suicide. Our hero heard the story and confidently said, this will not happen to me. body, but really not? The answer is obvious.

This is the work of the film master Kubrick, adapted from the horror novel of the horror novel master Stephen King. This film does not have many bloody scenes, but it is one of the most terrifying horror films in history. Its horror is A little bit seeps into your spine, stores it quietly in your body, and then surprises you, controlling your nerves and breathing.

What scares you? I believe that running in a gloomy and huge empty room with your eyes blocked would be a good answer. The original scene created by Kubrick in the film always follows the people in the play at the same height as the characters ghostly, following them walking, running, and stepping on toy cars in solitude. A large piece of the audience's perspective is blocked by the people in the play , only the scenery next to it keeps retreating, the repeated footsteps and the sound of the toy car moving echoes in the large empty room, and then superimposed with the sudden sudden screeching, then the horror has slowly accumulated in your heart. .

The actor's performance is the most important horror prop in this movie. Jack Nicholson's ferocious face alone is enough to make you horrified. After watching the tidbits, you will know that he brushes his teeth before every performance. The camera is ready for the unstained white teeth, her face is distorted, and the whites of her eyes occupy most of the eye sockets; the skinny, match-shaped mother has a pair of ping pong eyes and long hair with Sadako, screaming in horror The face twisted in the middle, like a live-action version of a screaming mask.

The color of the film is bright and dazzling, with red, blue, yellow and green colliding together, as permeating Kubrick-esque eerie and eerie as "A Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Unlike other films, Kubrick's films will not fade with the passage of time. Although he has been imitated by countless latecomers, he is still the one standing at the forefront today and has not been surpassed.

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The Shining quotes

  • Jack Torrance: What are you doing down here?

    Wendy Torrance: [sobbing] I just wanted to talk to you.

    Jack Torrance: Okay, let's talk. What do you wanna talk about?

    Wendy Torrance: I can't really remember.

    Jack Torrance: You can't remember... Maybe it was about... Danny? Maybe it was about him. I think we should discuss Danny. I think we should discuss what should be done with him. What should be done with him?

    Wendy Torrance: I don't know.

    Jack Torrance: I don't think that's true. I think you have some very definite ideas about what should be done with Danny and I'd like to know what they are.

    Wendy Torrance: Well, I think... maybe... he should be taken to a doctor.

    Jack Torrance: You think "maybe" he should be taken to a doctor?

    Wendy Torrance: Yes.

    Jack Torrance: When do you think "maybe" he should be taken to a doctor?

    Wendy Torrance: As soon as possible...?

    Jack Torrance: [mocking/imitating her] As soon as possible...?

    Wendy Torrance: Jack! What are... you...

    Jack Torrance: You think his health might be at stake.

    Wendy Torrance: Y-Yes!

    Jack Torrance: You are concerned about him.

    Wendy Torrance: Yes!

    Jack Torrance: And are you concerned about me?

    Wendy Torrance: Of course I am!

    Jack Torrance: Of course you are! Have you ever thought about my responsibilities?

    Wendy Torrance: Oh Jack, what are you talking about?

    Jack Torrance: Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first. Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and "trust" in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a "contract," in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a "moral and ethical principal" is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?

    Wendy Torrance: [swings the bat] Stay away from me!

  • [Repeated line]

    Jack Torrance: [as he chases his son with an ax] Danny, I'm coming!