It is more than I expected

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2004)

A couple of weeks ago I decided to spent a night at home watching a movie, and as my brother had just lent me The shining, I thought it would be a great idea to remember some childhood's fears that this particular kind of movies used to provoke in me. But to my surprise, those feelings of horror were substituted by an amazing necessity of living the film. I mean, at ten you do not go further than the explicit images you see, but now I felt it more: I tried to imagine how it would be to live without the things to which we do not usually give importance, but that become vital when you are deprived of them. It also must be desperating that your mind goes blank if you are a writer and are not able to write anything.
Apart from the most `normal' aspects of the film, there is a sobrenatural side according to the mental powers of the child, the ghosts of the two children, the naked woman in the bathtub and all that people in the ballroom. All these things, except for the kid's powers, did not frighten me as much as the others. It is true that ghosts and all that stuff are frightening, but it is more to become insane without apparent reason. It was like trying to be in the place of Jack and thinking that you can go crazy too.
To sum up with, I think this film means much more then the obvious, and if anyone watches it, a feeling of:'it could be me' may appear.