How did Jack Torrance go crazy?

"The Shining" tells the story of writer Jack Torrance, who took his wife and children to accept a job as a hotel janitor in the winter in order to find inspiration, but was driven crazy by hallucinations. ?

The reason why Jack goes "crazy" in the movie is because he is under tremendous psychological pressure. However, there is insufficient preparation and careless explanation of this point in the movie, so that many people who have watched the movie will think that Jack is "crazy". "Very fragile", "crazy" and a bit unreasonable. However, in the novel, Stephen King uses more than half of the text to present "pressure".

Jack's father is an alcoholic and has serious domestic violence tendencies. He once beat his wife, Jack's mother, to serious injuries at the dinner table. Therefore, Jack's Tongnian is relatively miserable, and he has always been afraid of becoming someone like his father.

However, he still loves to drink very much. He once broke one of Danny's arms because he lost his manuscript while drunk. It can be seen that there is something in his body that is difficult to control. The element of violence exists, and all of this is the foreshadowing of his final "crazy" state.

In addition to the constant instigation of Jack by the concierge "Evil Granty" who personally killed his wife and daughter in the Overlook Hotel, Jack's own schizophrenia was also caused by him picking up an ax to kill him. The main reason for his wife and son Danny's "madness".

In this film, Jack's image is split many times due to his different identities. These splits complete Jack's dual role identification.

First, the split of the father's image: the father is a very important role in the initial stage of children's growth. Children often regard their fathers as "heroes" and "gods" and dream of one day becoming like their fathers. people. But as children grow up, the absence of father's love often causes potential anxiety in children.

In the movie, his son Danny once messed up his manuscript and was violently treated by him. Through the conversation between Jack and Grandi, Jack accepted Grandi's hint that he should discipline his wife and son well, and finally realized "replacing his own self with an external self" by raising an ax to his wife and children. The corresponding thing is The split of the father figure.

The second is the split of the writer's identity: Jack in "The Shining" also started writing after being fired from his job as a teacher. A quiet place to write a book, Yuanwang Hotel just met his wishes. In order to write, he did not play with his son, refused to talk to his wife, and even got angry when he thought his wife interfered with his writing.

In Eph. According to Lloyd's psychoanalytic theory, anything with a prominent shape is a symbol of maleness. Writing with a pen has always been regarded as a male privilege. However, Jack could not write a manuscript. The so-called manuscript just repeatedly wrote "All work and "No play makes Jack a dull boy" (All work and no play makes Jack a fool). He lost the privilege of writing until he went crazy.

The horror atmosphere and plot created in "The Shining" It doesn’t seem to be anything particularly outstanding today, but it has still become a classic among similar films. The main reason is that the horror world created for us by this film does not stimulate our senses through some spectacle, but Through the display of visual language, we can explore something deeper.

Jack's madness makes us think about our own lives. In the face of unresolved pressure and loneliness, "Jacks" are absolutely unstoppable. This is not an isolated case. How to learn to relieve stress and actively and bravely deal with loneliness and suffering is the more profound aspect of this film, and this is also the reason for its enduring popularity.