"The Shining" is taken from the transliteration of shinning, meaning the sixth sense and so on, just like the boy Tony in the mouth of Jack's son Danny. Although the film is extremely scary, there is almost no bloody scenes, far away from the "Dawn of the Living Dead" category. The bloody nausea of "The Grudge" is more powerful and deeper than "The Grudge". The horror of The Shining comes from the psychological depiction and the torture of human nature, from the clever design and grasp of the plot, the skillful use of musical language, and the two Starring in the portrayal of Rumu Sanfen, horror inadvertently seeps into your spine.
At the beginning of the film, Danny saw the scene of two young girls, and the seeds of horror have been planted in the audience's hearts; when Jack embraced the decaying corpse in the imagination of Room 237, the element of horror gradually surfaced on the paper; when Wendy rewritten wildly When the drafts of "All work and no play makes jack a dull" were full, everyone knew that terror was about to happen; and when Jack asked Wendy step by step on the stairs, terror attacked him! Afterwards, Jack carried an axe to chase his wife and daughter for a period worthy of the honor of being the most terrifying episode in movie history.
Jack Nicholson’s performance in the film is very superb, and his ugly face alone is enough to make you creepy. His facial expression is more distorted than the clown in "Batman 1", and his psychological portrayal is more than that of "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Asylum". "More tension The performance of the heroine played by Duval is also commendable. The image of the character itself is extremely useful for portraying the helpless, weak, but kind female image. The pale face, prominent eyes and cheekbones are painful. The expression is very contagious.
Music plays a pivotal role in horror films, and this film is no exception. It stops abruptly at the climax and suddenly switches the date under the black screen, which fully arouses the audience's emotions, and the nerves are always in a state of tension.
Particularly praised is the end of the film. Kubrick's film endings are often tepid on the surface, but profound. After Jack freezes to death in the snow, the film directly switches to the prom photo when "Lookout Hotel" was built. The waiter in the middle of the photo looks exactly like Jack. Why is it "exactly like" instead of "Jack" himself? The date of the photo is 1921.7.4. At the beginning of the film, the hotel owner once talked to Jack about the tragedy of 1970. It can be seen that there was a gap of at least 49 years, and Jack could only be around 40 years old at the time, so the "waiter" It won't be "Jack"; and "Jack" repeatedly mentioned his sense of belonging to the hotel in the film, and it is not difficult to return to the theme of "The Shining" or reincarnation. Why is the date 7.4, US National Day. At the beginning of the story, Wendy talked about Indian decorations, and the hotel owner also talked about the hotel site was once a native Indian burial ground. It was attacked by Indians many times during the construction, so National Day was chosen. At the end of the Ball photo, it may be Kubrick’s cynical mockery and an implicit explanation for the cause of the tragedy.
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