How madmen are made

Marcelina 2022-04-22 07:01:01

An upscale hotel nestled deep in the mountains with picturesque scenery and fresh air. The facilities of the hotel are very high-end and complete. The only disadvantage is that every winter, the mountain roads here will be covered with heavy snow, and the traffic will be paralyzed. The white snow scene in the world can only be left to individual people to enjoy, that is, this hotel hires people to be responsible for guarding the people here every winter.
The beginning of the story is the company's negotiation to find a new caretaker. The interviewee this time is a teacher. As a part-time writer, he hopes to have a quiet place to facilitate his creation, so the two sides hit it off. The hotel in the deep mountains will be isolated from the world for half a year, which is in line with his expectations, so soon the family of three moved into the hotel and began to enjoy the huge hotel alone.

Living alone in the mountains, worrying about food and clothing, picturesque scenery, and isolation from the world, all these conditions are very suitable for the creative environment, suitable for the burst of inspiration, as if this teacher who looks like a writer, the birth of a successful work must be logical. matter. However, in addition to being suitable for writing, such an environment is also suitable for brewing another emotion and giving birth to another kind of thing. In a relatively closed environment here, in such a large space, only my wife and children were by my side for half a year. In those years without the Internet, it was easy to develop depression and then brew madness, and then produce - a lunatic .

In this strange hotel in itself, in this place where tragedies have happened in the past, the first thing is that the child is abnormal, the typical autistic symptoms appear, and the mother of the child who is talking to herself in the face of personality split gradually gradually I started to feel anxious and overwhelmed, but what was even more worrying was the outbreak of my husband. I inadvertently discovered that the works of my husband who seemed to be working hard day and night for many days were just repeated countless times on the thick stack of paper. With the same sentence, I can't help but feel chills down my spine when I read the story here. It can be said that the director used the camera to record how a madman is made, and what the world looks like in the eyes of the madman. An exploding madman becomes the film's final climax. Under the axe, the mother and daughter survive through a maze.

The whole movie can be said to be a work with only three actors, and the playing time of the other actors together is almost negligible. In such a movie with limited roles, the director gradually forged a daunting story through the processing of the picture and the rendering of the background sound effects. The game, the white-haired old man who will inevitably appear in the camera, the old-fashioned and powerful movie star of the "Joker" image that was once considered almost unsurpassable in the last series of "Batman" movies - Jack Nicole Sen's excellent performance has become the most crucial piece of the puzzle. He performed such a realistic performance of a madman, and it was such a crazy performance more than once, which made me think that this old boy must have a crazy heart when he was young, and he can only perform in his true colors. outstanding. Look at the expression on the poster, and then look at the name that the subtitles first typed at the beginning of the film, and it is not difficult to see the biggest attraction and selling point of this film.

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The Shining quotes

  • Stuart Ullman: I don't suppose they told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had in the Winter of 1970.

    Jack Torrance: I don't believe they did.

    Stuart Ullman: My predecessor in this job left a man named Charles Grady as the Winter caretaker. And he came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think were eight and ten. And he had a good employment record, good references, and from what I've been told he seemed like a completely normal individual. But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran amuck and killed his family with an axe. Stacked them neatly in one of the rooms in the West wing and then he, he put both barrels of a shot gun in his mouth.

  • Jack Torrance: Well, that is quite a story.

    Stuart Ullman: Yeah it is. It's still hard for me to believe it happened here. It did, and I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it.

    Jack Torrance: I certainly can and I also understand why your people in Denver left it for you to tell me.

    Stuart Ullman: Well obviously some people can be put off by staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened.

    Jack Torrance: Well you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. And as far as my wife is concerned, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fascinated when l tell her. She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict.