THE SHINING
Film Review
Father
vs. Family
The Shining is one of the exciting
I’ve ever seen. This movie is not just horror but suspense and has a family
lesson. The shining challenges me to create a film someday that have a package
moral lesson to the viewers. Starting this day I am already a fan of Stanley
Kubrick, producer and director and Stephen King who is the novelist of the
shining. The story started when Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) accepts to be
the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel when it’s already winter. Jack decides to
move to the hotel with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and his young son Danny
(Danny Lloyd) the reason why jack to the hotel is he wants to use time to
finish writing his novel. In that day Jack also recovering alcoholic who broke
his son’s arm because he is frustrated with his work.
Jack meet the Head Chef who is Dick (Scatman
Crothers) he has also “The Shining” it is a special power of mind of a person.
Dick discovered that Danny has ability like him and they can communicate only
in mind, both of them have a power to see the past and future. Danny got
started to tell Dick that he has an invisible friend named Tony that live in
his mouth.
A minute ago Wendy decided to contact
with the One Station but winter hits the hotel and the phones knocked out of service
because of snowstorm but Wendy use radio and it is short wave radio and she is
thankful that a guy in the station answer her call and she informed that they
are in the hotel. When she goes back to his husband he noticed that there is
something wrong with his husband and also the hotel. Dick also call to the
station that he needs to contact to the family Torrance in the Overlook Hotel
but when Jack hear the phone ringing he destroy it.
Dick feels uncomfortable because he
knows that there’s something wrong with Torrance because the ability reflects
him and he feels that Jack Torrance is not already in his mind. Dick decides to
travel to Overlook Hotel and check up the family. On the Hotel jack not on his
mind, he already wanted to kill his family and Danny saying REDRUM to her
mother while he is writing it on the center of the door using red lipstick.
Mr. Dick got to the Hotel but Jack
kill him after that Jack keep on calling the name of Danny his son but Danny
run outside the house and got to the maze but the only way that Danny’s
solution is to stop running because his father following his footstep and his
solution is to mislead his father and go back to the starting area of the maze
where the Hotel was build. Finally, when got to Hotel her mother is waiting for
him and they ride to the car and Jack Torrance died to the maze because of cold.
The technique of the Director of this
film is so effective because every scene of the movie there is a title. At
first I thought that this movie is boring but when I hear the music it sounds
interesting for me and Danny the young son of Jack is so very good actor even
though he is young he knows how to act very well the director choose the actors
and actress carefully. Jack’s scenes with the ghosts at the bar and in The Cold
Room were representations of his inner dialogue. This movie is an original it
doesn’t have a similarity to other movies. I know Kubricks has knowledge about
movies but this film is awesome. He is really a good director; in terms of the
shots of the film he has so many strategies. The cinematography of this movie
is so good the ultimate different of this film is at the beginning of the movie
Director Kubrick used long shot and at the end he used zoom in on one of the
many black and white photos that line the hotel walls it is so effective
because you can feel scared in unconditional ways.
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