The Shining

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2017)

Growing up with a best friend in love with Stephen King, we made it a must to see this film. Stanley Kubrick chose to bring King's novel to life in a terrifying film that gave me chill after every scene. Movies that have a mind blowing ending or even parts that do not make any sense and then come together at the end are my absolute favorite. Stanley Kubrick was able to capture the beautiful work that made all of us scratch our heads and even today we still question and theorize. Jack Nicholson, who plays Jack, is a writer who slowly becomes possessed as he and his family live in a hotel over the winter off season. To slowly see Jack go from bad to worse with no explanation was intriguing. His wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall, was confused as to why her husband was changing into a psychotic man and was afraid of her and her son, Danny's, life. The true relationship between mother and son is loving and nothing can break their bond after the events at the Overlook Hotel. The macguffin within the film is room 237. No one knows what happened in their and it is never explained. The audience just knows that something important happened in room 237. Although when Jack enters the room, he sees a naked woman in a bright green bathroom that is blinding if you watch the movie in he dark. Jack then realizes he is losing it and runs from the room as he sees the young attractive woman turn to an old hag. When strange and the most confusing/scary scenes some on, Stanley Kubrick lights the room, and he shot to blind the viewer. It is to act like a new world. In the improvised line, "Here's Johnny", by Jack, It has a Wes Anderson feel to it because it is straight on and bright shot. Finally, the ending scene where it slowly zooms in on the photo of Jack in a party at the Overlook Hotel in the 20's, It only leaves the audience questioning what is going on and then makes the search as to what it was even more fun. Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson and others made a great effort to bring confusion in a good way to the audience.