Stephen King is the king of horror movies because he holds a series of fried films called kings in his hand. Among them, "The Shining" as a horror film field has been surpassed by few people, and has become a memory of an era.
In addition to the subconscious horror of the psychological source and the classic shots of blood rushing out of the elevator, "The Shining" contains more social and historical significance that can be deeply explored. Therefore, with the unique coldness and confusion of the Cold War period, combined with the shadow of ancient Indian culture, the slight innuendo of the Cthulhu civilization, plus the decadence of the economic recession in the real world, and the resistance of personal characteristics to social activities, etc. For all the reasons, "The Shining" can scare the audience in the horror movie genre for decades and become a classic recognized by generations.
Now that horror films are getting weaker and weaker, Uncle Stephen King is still active in the front line of frightening the audience. In this year alone, his hand-produced works include "The Clown 2" and "In the High Grass." In the series of "Pet Cemetery", there are still two well-known TV series "Castle Rock" season 2 and "Mr. Mercedes" season 3. The raging process and the huge number, on the contrary, appear to be a bit tepid as the sequel to the sequel to the horror film "The Shining", "Sleep Doctor".
"Doctor Sleeping Dream" was inspired by Stephen King, a supplement after a stroke of the pen, so I lost the passion and vitality of the original creation. The original novel is too modest and neglected by readers. After all, the story of "The Shining" came to an abrupt end after Jack was frozen to death in the icy hotel maze. Although the previous director, Kubrick, a generation of masters, left a profound aftertaste to the film, further making the audience's back cool. However, Stephen King's original book actually wants to end.
However, because of the audience’s request, he wanted to see the ending of his son Danny, who has the same "shining" physique as Jack. Uncle Kim reluctantly wrote a sequel, and concentrated his efforts to arrange a special for Danny. The story of how the physique gets along and helps others with his special physique gives Danny a better ending.
So, obviously, "Doctor Sleeper" is obviously weaker than "The Shining" in terms of congenital conditions. In addition, "The Shining" has been fermented and reprocessed by the master-level Stanley Kubrick, and the director of "Doctor Sleeper" is a new director Mike Fever who is still looking for style and has not found his own way. Lanagan (the most well-known work so far is the horror drama "Ghost Invasion"), and now the market is too commercialized, and there has been a lack of soil for the birth of cross-age masterpieces. Therefore, various deficiencies are inherent and acquired. As a result, the son is not as good as the father, and the dog's tail continues the established situation.
The story of "Doctor Sleeper" takes place thirty years after "The Shining", when Danny, who was riding a tricycle and rushing around in a ghostly hotel, has grown into a middle-aged adult. After seeing the tragedy of his father and the negative impact of his own ability, he chose to bury his ability and pretend to be an ordinary person.
For this reason, with the help of the boiler worker who was killed by his father in the hotel, (in the original book, the boiler worker rescued the trapped Danny and his mother. But Kubrick became crazy in order to highlight Jack’s ability Harmful, the boiler worker was arranged to die under Jack’s axe.
Therefore, in order to pay tribute and respect to Kubrick, the boiler worker was designed to be in a "shining" state, living in Danny's subconscious mind. .), Danny learned to bury those fears in his memory into closed spaces set up one by one, and then pretend to be ordinary people to live. However, this ability and the powerful darkness of the hotel are still haunting his life. Especially after the death of his mother, Danny further lost his life goal and became an alcoholic and decadent middle-aged man.
And the one who maintains his will to survive in the end is a newborn girl with a "shining" physique, Aiba. Abba maintains an intermittent connection with Danny through unconscious soul links. In the connection, seniors learn how to get along with their own abilities. However, Abba’s abilities are significantly greater-she can not only predict some large-scale deaths in the future, such as 911, etc., but can even be different from large-scale "shining" physique figures.Soul link at the same level.
And with the deepening of Aiba's exploration in this field, she has also discovered the gloom of this field. In the dark, there are "the shining" people slaughtering the same kind, by devouring the "shining" abilities and soul energy of others, to maintain their eternal youth and achieve the purpose of prolonging their survival ability.
For this, Albana asked Danny for help. The two people unite to fight the evil "shining", but their power is relatively weak. In order to wipe out the entire evil group, Danny returns to the nightmare land 30 years ago and uses the huge darkness of the hotel to eliminate This group of "shinlings" who mutilated the same kind. If the sequel
and "The Shining" are unclearly related to "Doctor Sleeping Dream" as a separate horror movie, it is a qualified or even bright work. It is a pity that he has a predecessor that is too famous. Stanley Kubrick, as a master of the 1980s, processed and added the original work so that it can be used as a B-level film to enter the room and become a memory of the century.
As a sequel to "Doctor Sleeper", it relies too much on the previous work to a large extent and loses its own goodness.
In "Doctor Sleeper", the beginning and the end of the hotel, even in order to show his inseparable direct blood relationship, before the finale, once again rebuilt the hotel scene and many details of the year, still flashing back with The youthful state of the two parties that year was reproduced in the illusion.
Actually, "Doctor Sleeper", which is separated from "The Shining", is somewhat weak. One reason is that this is not the era when horror movies are rampant. Too many audio-visual factors have piled up comic superhero themes, and the overall audience's viewing taste has been elevated to an era when the senses are fully mobilized. The psychological shock of the traditional calm experience lost most of the audience.
Second, without the blessing of a master-level director, the editor's ability to reprocess the original works has become weak, making it difficult for ordinary popular books to enter the elegant hall. There is a fundamental difference between "The Shining" and "Doctor Sleeper". Under such circumstances, attracting the audience through the gimmick of "The Shining" is the only advantage of the establishment of "Doctor Sleeper", but this advantage is also a fatal weakness in the eyes of audiences who really like "The Shining".
As a result, the fragments and bridges in "Doctor Sleeper" that restore "The Shining" more than 30 years ago have become their original sin in many cases.
The narration is too slow, the story seems weak, and the plot is long!
In terms of production, "Doctor Sleeper" is neat and somewhat lengthy. The first half is about Danny's living state, about Abel's self-development, and the explanations about evil shining people cross each other, but the three of them are parallel and not contrary to the sufficient intersection of the ducklings, so in terms of perception, they are slow and lengthy. In the middle of
, when Abel discovered that the evil faction was massacring the same kind, the little girl Abel and Rose's offensive and defensive each other was a gimmick, but the connection with Danny seemed thin. In the end, the strength of Abel and Rose was out of balance, and Danny's sudden addition to the situation seemed insufficient evidence. Moreover, the three-stage preparation before the final battle seemed too neat and lacked enough intense conflicts.
Especially in the final stage, the decisive battle in the hotel is actually not fierce enough. Think of Spielberg's intervention in the plot of "Ready Player One" for just over ten minutes. The atmosphere is tense enough, the conflict is fierce enough, and even the jokes are set extremely appropriately. As a new-generation director, he is good at slowly setting up baggage in long stories (this is concentrated in the nine episodes of "Ghost Invasion", which has enough time to adjust the rhythm.), so the early foreshadowing is too long, The short-term exposure at the end is obvious.
However, Stephen King still gave Danny an opportunity to save himself and save others-he was using the darkness in the hotel to eliminate the evil Shining, and he did his best to let Abel go, and then Take advantage of the problems of heating boilers all the time, and put the whole hidden danger to the torch!
Therefore, Danny passed on his ideas to Abel, using the soul form to maintain the purity and positiveness of the "shining" form. Abel, who is still young, will become the main inheritor of the super-powered form of "The Shining".
Therefore, running in the name of a "doctor" who can sacrifice himself to cure diseases and save people, "Doctor Sleeping Dream" is also another oneIt's only warm enough.
