One of the Best Thriller Movies Ever

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2018)

The movie The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is a thriller/ psychological horror film that expresses concepts such as isolation. The use of body language and speech makes the movie thrilling and suspenseful. How the effects of isolation for both characters progresses through the movie makes the story suspenseful and interesting to watch what the characters will do next and what else will happen in the plot. The overall acting from the actors is very authentic and their acting brings the story to life. The acting from Jack Nicholson makes his character, Jack Torrance, seem as if he is two people instead of just one. Nicholson's acting in this movie is really frightening and interesting because of his change in body language and the way he speaks of and to his family as he goes insane. The acting from Danny Lloyd (Danny Torrance) and Shelley Duvall (Wendy Torrance) also helps build the suspense in the movie and the contrast from their characters to Nicholson's character makes the movie thrilling to watch. The scenes and shots also helps build emotion, such as the shots of Jack sitting in the chair typing on the typewriter set an eerie feeling to the movie or how the scene where Danny is running away from Jack who is holding an axe makes the audience want to know what will happen next. Something I would change about the shots is how they presented the next scenes with a black screen that either displayed the time, the day, or how many months past because they are just unnecessary and they could have done a smoother transition if they wanted to. Overall, I would give the movie 9/10 because the acting, the cinematography, and the plot makes the movie interesting and worth watching.