I completely understand Jack Torrance' anger.

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 1999)

After reading some of the comments, I wasn't able to realize how some of these people didn't understand how Jack went insane. I understand how and was deeply moved. All summer long I am cooped up with my parents without the alleviation of my anguish from my friends. If someone deep down dislikes or hates the people they live with and hold it in too long, they will slowly deteriorate. Jack hated Wendy because she was simple and she took his alcohol away from him, or he leads himself to believe that. There was never love there in the first place.
I would also like to mention two mistakes that I think are worth mentioning. When applying, Jack mentions that he had been on the wagon for four, or possibly five, months. One month later in the story, he mentions the same number of months when it should have been one more. The second mistake is a technical flaw. In the opening scenes with the aerial camera following the bug on the sidewinder, out of the corner of the screen you are able to see the helicopter's shadow. This is when it first shows the car. The reason I mention this mistake is because Kubrick later acknowledges it in FULL METAL JACKET when the characters are flying in a helicopter one of the shots is staring at the helicopter's shadow from the helicopter. Kubrick always did have a terrific sense of humor.