Interesting "The Shining" and a meaningless life

Cara 2022-04-21 09:01:02

"The Shining" is a work worth remembering in the history of cinema, and it is also a classic masterpiece in the history of horror films. Compared with the cold and treacherous Japanese horror and the terrifying bloody scenes of Europe and the United States, "The Shining" has bright colors, and the blue sky and white clouds, green trees and red tiles outside the hotel are refreshing; As it appears, Kubrick wants to express his ambition to explore human nature and human society in any unconventional subject (science fiction, horror), so The Shining deliberately uses the seemingly bland shots and slightly mysterious elements in the first half. The narrative, step by step, leads people to the dark valley of psychology. Self-isolated in the winter hotel, the hero is depleted of creativity and just type "All work no play make Jack a dull boy" on the typewriter all day, I insist on this shot This is the real scary first point in the film. Previously, the possessed soul, twin sisters, the emergence of blood and water (which was later parodied by Zhou Xingxing in "Kung Fu") and the silent low-position shooting (a child riding a bicycle) are all foils, although these foils themselves eventually become classics. And this shot finally let us know the heart of the hero, that has bid farewell to normalcy and went crazy.

The following plot is not so much the horror of the story itself (don't forget that the original script of the movie is Stephen King, the king of horror novels), but rather reveals the horror of human hearts, and I even read the "others are hell" from it. Literally - of course, I don't think existentialism should pay for the interpretation of the film, but I think this expression is so apt to express the misunderstanding, estrangement and even the terrible development of blood and blood between relatives. The source of this series of horrors is closely related to the previous proverb and the cold relationship between people brought about by the existential pressure behind that proverb. In addition, it is worth mentioning that "The Shining", which has finally become an ethical discussion film, was almost entirely filmed in the hotel, and the cost was low. The tone of the narrative is also deeply pessimistic.

After writing this, I found out that horror movies do not only exist on the screen, or in the mind that Master Ku can never understand. Horror movies turned out to be our life now. The National Day holiday has just passed. We have experienced the adjustment of classes for the previous two days, working on Saturdays and Sundays (if we do not consider the stupidity of the Golden Week arrangement, I still support this class adjustment programmatically, after all, it will allow us to After seven days of rest, I can be a person with the same IQ as the monkeys who are in the middle of the night. After three days of rest, I came across the monthly exam arranged by the school, invigilated three exams, and began to mark the papers. There is no special explanation for this kind of examination. Of course, we can interpret it as one of the measures to "provide education to the satisfaction of the people". The problem is that two weeks before this uniformly arranged exam, our freshman year had just held the exam for the beginning of the school year. When I was sitting in the examination room and changing the test paper, I thought of that proverb with a heart, but I didn't know who the "stupid and stupid" was, and I didn't know if I should use madness to express the education of this madness The final resistance of the environment - a student from Nantong who is also engaged in education (or test-taking) said that he is crazy.

Front-line teachers can come up with a correct conclusion with their toes: taking exams two weeks apart is really stupid.

Please forgive my rashness, it turns out that our life is not a horror movie - because I just remembered that after school started, it was probably for Teachers' Day (note, this may just be a reason that I made up, and there should be no reason in more cases ), the school stipulates that the head teacher should visit all the families in a short period of time, and the whole city's middle schools are doing this. After the current director came to power, the millions of projects of Yangzhou education have been vigorously carried out. Various figures are stacked like wonderful flowers, all kinds of whimsical ideas have sprung up, and all kinds of tongue-in-cheek words have scrambled for each other, but the teachers and children are suffering.

I figured it out, compared to The Shining, the film we teach life is not a horror line, but an absurd line; the tone is not bright, but the voice is very high. Moreover, its cost - whether it is the actual education funds and fees, or the human and brain power consumed, is far from cheap. At this price, if the motherland can produce one or two Nobel Prize winners in a few years, I will also recognize it; what I am afraid of is that the production of Little Jack by the dozen, and the absurd film will turn into a Chinese-style horror. , Kubrick knows underground, must be ironic.

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  • Santino 2021-10-20 18:58:18

    Women, you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

  • Nikki 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    Five stars! The script and actor skills are both quite a solid horror movie! Most people can only see pictures in their dreams and rarely see words. The dream manifests the subconscious mind. Kubrick is a master at using images. The images in "The Shining" use a lot of metaphors. When fans watch it, they feel like they have entered a lucid hypnosis. The rich elements of fear in the images unconsciously Implanted deep in the consciousness of movie fans.

The Shining quotes

  • [Wendy and Danny are having a race through the hedge maze while Jack works]

    Wendy Torrance: The loser has to keep America clean!

    [free of litter?]

    Danny Torrance: Alright!

    Wendy Torrance: [later] Whoo, we made it! I didn't think it was gonna be this big, did you?

    Danny Torrance: nope!

  • Jack Torrance: [to Lloyd] I just happen to have two 20s and two 10s right here in my wallet. I was afraid they were going to be there until next April. So here's what: you slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass and some ice. You can do that, can't you? You're not too busy, are you?

    Lloyd: No, sir. I'm not busy at all.

    Jack Torrance: Good man. You set 'em up, and I'll knock 'em back - one by one.