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Title: 'The Shining'
Release Year: 1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers.
Plot: Jack Torrance moves in the Overlook hotel with his family to take care of it while it remains closed in the winter season. But although his initial intention is finding peace to write his novel, as different paranormal events occur, he starts to lose his mind and eventually tries to kill his wife and son.
Review: 'The Shining' didn't have easy beginnings. When it was released in 1980, it wasn't met with critical acclaim and Stanley Kubrick received a Razzie nomination for Worst Director. Through the years it gained a cult following as the film was reassessed as a horror classic.
I truly can understand why it didn't meet expectations when it was released; it was long, complex and some of the supernatural events did not have an explanation and people didn't understand the film well. I did also struggle with the difficult plot twists and time impossibilities and ended asking myself: does the story even have sense? And it's at that moment when I think that the film suceeds; while making the audience suffer to understand the hows and the why the film catches it, in the same way that the Overlook hotel trapped a Jack Torrance that 'had always lived there'.
Hello, Danny. Come play with us. Come play with us, Danny; Forever, and ever... and ever. The unforgettable scene featuring 'The Shining twins'
Anyway, even if they had problems with the plot, I don't understand why they couldn't praise Jack Nicholson's performance. It's the best work that I've seen of him and obviously deserved more than a Saturn Award nomination. His wonderfully acted and marvelously portrayed Jack Torrance leads a film that creates a universe where you can lose yourself, in the same way as Jack lost himself in the haunted hotel maze... and never escaped. Was he there from the very beginning? Why was there a photo of him at the principal hallway dated 1921? Are he and Grady the same person? Is the dead woman in the bathroom Grady's dead wife? And the twins... are they his daughters? Why does the elevator open to reveal a blood cascade? Why is Danny able to perceive the hotel's 'Shining' and why does he start whispering 'REDRUM' (Murder written backwards)? Those are enigmas yet to be solved.
I truly can understand why it didn't meet expectations when it was released; it was long, complex and some of the supernatural events did not have an explanation and people didn't understand the film well. I did also struggle with the difficult plot twists and time impossibilities and ended asking myself: does the story even have sense? And it's at that moment when I think that the film suceeds; while making the audience suffer to understand the hows and the why the film catches it, in the same way that the Overlook hotel trapped a Jack Torrance that 'had always lived there'.
Hello, Danny. Come play with us. Come play with us, Danny; Forever, and ever... and ever. The unforgettable scene featuring 'The Shining twins'
Anyway, even if they had problems with the plot, I don't understand why they couldn't praise Jack Nicholson's performance. It's the best work that I've seen of him and obviously deserved more than a Saturn Award nomination. His wonderfully acted and marvelously portrayed Jack Torrance leads a film that creates a universe where you can lose yourself, in the same way as Jack lost himself in the haunted hotel maze... and never escaped. Was he there from the very beginning? Why was there a photo of him at the principal hallway dated 1921? Are he and Grady the same person? Is the dead woman in the bathroom Grady's dead wife? And the twins... are they his daughters? Why does the elevator open to reveal a blood cascade? Why is Danny able to perceive the hotel's 'Shining' and why does he start whispering 'REDRUM' (Murder written backwards)? Those are enigmas yet to be solved.
'Here's... Johnny!', the line that is now a part of film history
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