A SIMPLE MASTERPIECE!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2000)

The Shining is simply the most horrifying film I've seen in my whole life. Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer who goes in a hotel with his family(his wife and his son)to be far from the city and to don't get his concentration broken every five seconds. But a long time ago, another caretaker killed his wife and his two daughters with an ax. The whole family already has mental disorder problems(the son, Danny, has an imaginary friend, Tony which is his second personality). The boy sees weird things in the hotel; the two girls that got killed long ago by their father are talking to him. Jack becomes more and more ''psycho'' day after day and finally wants to kill his family... There are lots of details in The Shining that you don't understand the first 5 times you watch it...that's why I bought it. And especially a weird ''time warp''which makes you ask yourself;do the characters have been in the Hotel before? I did not already find the answer. In this film, based on the novel by Stephen King, the horror is intelligent and is not based on blood and guts, Kubrick knew our fears, and he put them together. He is a genius. Jack Nicholson plays his character like a pro(he is!!!) and Danny Lloyd says REDRUM with a very scary voice. By the way, when I realized that REDRUM was MURDER, I told myself that I had a lot more to understand about this masterpiece. Stephen King written the story of Sometimes They Come Back, which is about zombies, which I call a STUPID AND SIMPLE HORROR SUBJECT, the opposite of The Shining's subject. He also written the story of The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption, two excellent movies that are not scary at all. He is definitely an excellent writer. Stanley Kubrick, well, it's Stanley Kubrick. He is the director who made some excellent movies, masterpiece after masterpiece. He takes his time to put us in the most sensational atmosphere possible, depending on the kind of movie. BUT NOW HE IS DEAD!!!AND IT MEANS THAT HE WILL NEVER MAKE ANOTHER MASTERPIECE...AND THAT MAKES ME SAD...But The Shining is still here, and I'll never forget it! I give it 98%(and maybe I am not generous enough....)