"The Shining" poster
"The Shining" is a horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in the United States on May 23, 1980. So far, it is still recognized as the number one horror film in film history, and its reputation accumulated over the past 30 years has no horror film that can match it.
Last year, Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" had a large chapter that borrowed the story of "The Shining" completely. "The Shining" has been paid tribute and spoofing countless since its birth, and people's various speculations and discussions about it have brought it to the position of the horror title card. The reason why "The Shining" is so admired is that the director of this film is God.
has an understanding of world film history, and most of them admire a director: Stanley Kubrick. And the most extensive evaluation of him is: If there is a God in the movie, it must be Stanley Kubrick.
There is a verse about this sentence:
After Spielberg died, he came to heaven but was stopped by St. Peter. St. Peter said: "The film director cannot go to heaven." At this time, Kubrick was riding a bicycle. Staggered into the gate of heaven. Spielberg shouted: "Isn't that Kubrick? Why can he?!". The angel replied: "Oh, you said he, he is actually God himself, but he always thought he was a director."
is said to be Kubrick's favorite paragraph during his lifetime.
Kubrick's situation before the advent of "The Shining" was actually not good. Due to the bad box office of "Barry Linden", the shooting of "The Shining" put a lot of pressure on Kubrick. But even so, he still did not lower his standards, and the film thus achieved a comprehensive breakthrough in both conception and technology. Before
"The Shining", horror films had always been a genre that couldn't make it on the stage. They were all shoddy B-level films. and Kubrick relied on "The Shining" to finally get the name of this type. The story of
took place in Colorado, the United States. The male protagonist applied for a winter caretaker in a hotel called "Guanjing". The person in charge told him of a tragedy that happened here in 1970: Charles Grady, the former administrator, hacked his wife and daughter to death one day in the winter and shot himself. The
film Kubrick presents the development of the plot to the audience in the form of a diary, and has repeatedly used the expressive technique of white space to give the audience imagination beyond the plot. The author does not make spoilers about the plot here, but to avoid some viewers watching this film is completely confused, here are three key links:
First, understand the historical background of the United States from the westward pioneering movement to the Indian massacre. The person in charge of the hotel mentioned in the film: The foundation of the hotel is the Indian cemetery, which was attacked by the Indians during the construction. At the time of the hotel’s construction, the western pioneering and Indian genocide were underway. By the beginning of the 20th century, when the hotel was completed, these two movements had basically ended. It is conceivable that there were many buried under the hotel. The bones of the Indians! At that time, white people were proud of their skin color and believed that white people were more intelligent and noble than people of color. In the film, when the male protagonist Jack went to the bar of the dance hall to buy drunk for the first time, he said to the bartender Lloyd: "The white man's mission." The male protagonist Jack himself is an untalented writer. Under the background that whites considered superior at the time, the male protagonist did not have the ability to support his family. It was this self-proclaimed incompetence that paved the way for the male protagonist to lose his nature.
Second, what is the Shining in the movie? In fact, in the film, the director sets that everyone has the Shining, and the Shining's perception ability varies from person to person, but it can be large or small. The Shining can actually be attributed to the subconscious pre-reaction.
Third, director Kubrick’s word game. In the film, Kubrick played word games many times. For example, at first the hotel manager told the former administrator that it was Charles Grady, and the one who appeared in front of Jack was Delbert Grady. While this word game scared the hero, it also scared most of the audience. There is also a word in the play: redrum, in fact, we have to interpret murder in reverse! murder!
"The Shining" is different from other horror movies in the inversion of the characters of good and evil. Whether it’s from the selection of actors, detailed arrangements, or lens design, the film isGive a lot of sympathy to Jack the abuser. The essence of this film is not ghosts, but madness, and the extent to which people’s spirits can be magnified in isolation.
Good movies can make people feel that they are often watched and new. If you like watching movies, then "The Shining" is definitely not to be missed.
