The sharpness of film criticism

The Shining is a horror film produced by Warner Bros., directed by stanley kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd. The film was released on May 23rd, 1980.

Brief introduction of shaping ...

? Jack torrance, a writer, decided to take over this luxurious mountain hotel in order to find inspiration and get rid of the frustration at work. There have been rumors that the last manager of a mountain hotel went insane for no reason and committed suicide after brutally killing the whole family. Jack Torrance, who was absorbed in writing, took a fancy to the remoteness and seclusion of this hotel, and decided to take his wife Wendy and his son Danny with him despite the advice of his friend Tony. They made new plans in their new home, and Jack also designed a lounge for himself to concentrate on his creation.

? Even though their plans are good, Jack can't concentrate on writing when he moves into his new home. He began to go in and out of restaurants, bars and other places, and all kinds of fantasies kept appearing in his mind, bloody and real. Jack also saw the ghost of the former manager. He kept enticing Jack to kill his wife and son. His wife Wendy came across Jack's manuscript paper and began to pay attention to Jack. Wendy found that Jack, who is becoming more and more abnormal, makes people feel inexplicable fear.

? At this time, misfortune came again, and Wendy found their son's consciousness more and more chaotic. In desperation, Wendy decided to ask others for help. Jack was vicious when Wendy picked up the radio. He broke not only the radio, but also the snowmobile. He was so vicious that he killed Tony who came to visit them and raised a crazy axe to his wife and son.

Film review: transferred from another version

The word "sharping" is translated from the original "shining". Many film critics say that it means the sixth sense in this movie. I don't entirely agree with this. I have watched this film for more than ten times, giving the word "sharping" a more accurate definition-remote sensing ability. We know that the sixth sense is usually used to perceive what may happen in the future, or to help people make the right choice in an emergency, which can be said to be relatively intuitive. Remote sensing can not only travel through the future, but also reproduce what has happened. It is by no means equal to simple intuition, it is produced by the mutual stimulation of subjective ideas and objective environment, which is equivalent to the advanced reaction of the subconscious to some extent.

After understanding the meaning of sharping, let's review all the details of the film from the beginning. It is worth mentioning that the flowing shooting angle is used many times in the film, and the light and shadow effect is excellent.

At the beginning of the film, the protagonist Jack came to Yuanwang Hotel to interview for the position of manager. The person in charge told him about a tragedy that happened here on 1970: Charles Grady, a former administrator, hacked his wife and daughter to death on a winter day and shot himself. The camera switches and Jack's wife Wendy and son Danny appear. From the beginning, Danny knew in advance that his father's interview would be successful. This is the first time that Danny's Sharp has been launched.

When the person in charge showed Jack's family around the hotel, Danny's Shaping opened for the second time. He saw the twin sisters who had appeared in his dream before at the gate of the game room. With doubt and a little fear, Danny mentioned room 237 in front of Dick, a black chef who also has sharping.

Then, the director showed the development of the plot to the audience in the form of a diary.

1, one month later

Jack woke up in the morning and told Wendy that he had known this place before. In the afternoon, Wendy took Danny to play in the hedge maze. Jack was outside, but he saw Wendy and Danny from the maze model on the table.

2. Tuesday

The weather forecast says Denver will face a snowstorm soon. Wendy went to tell Jack the news to remind everyone to get ready early, but when she said she interrupted her writing ideas, Jack flew into a rage. He also made a so-called "new rule", that is, don't go in and disturb him casually in the future.

3. Thursday

The events of this day are particularly simple and profound, except that Wendy and Danny are playing in the snow, and the camera is fixed on Jack's face for a long time. His eyes were dull and strange, and he had a mysterious smile on his face.

4. Saturday

Wendy tried to communicate with the outside world by radio, but she succeeded. In order to prevent accidents, she kept the radio on. Danny sees twin sisters for the third time. What's more, he saw the blood spatter when the two sisters died. Danny's keenness was activated for the third time. It tells Danny that what he saw is not true.

5. Monday

Danny and Wendy are watching TV. Danny suggests going to his room to get his fire truck. Wendy told him not to wake his father. When Danny walked into the room quietly, he found that Jack was not resting, but sitting by the bed. Jack picked up Danny and said something to him. Jack repeatedly stressed how much he loved Danny. This passage may be the only slightly warm picture in the whole movie, although Jack's way of speaking and facial expressions are getting more and more weird and scary.

6. Wednesday

Danny is playing in the hotel corridor. Suddenly a ball rolled in front of him. He looked up and saw that the door of room 237, which he had been deeply afraid of, had been opened. Driven by curiosity, he still went in.

Wendy, who was checking the boiler at this moment, suddenly heard Jack screaming wildly. She ran to wake Jack who was struggling in a nightmare. Jack told her, "I just had the most terrible dream of my life." I dreamed that I killed you and Danny. I not only killed you, but also cut you into pieces ... "At this moment, Danny came in from the outside without saying a word. Wendy is confused. When she approached him, she found a big bruise on Danny's neck. Wendy remembered that Jack dislocated Danny's arm because of drunkenness a few years ago, and she couldn't help but get angry and scold Jack.

Jack walked into the hotel and ballroom in confusion and irritability. At this point, he urgently needs alcohol to anesthetize himself. "Whatever it takes, even if it costs my damn soul." Looking up, he saw Lloyd, the bartender, standing in front of him and having a few drinks. Jack's accumulated anger and grievances finally broke out. He accused Wendy and Danny of having an impact on his life and future, and things were out of control.

Just then, Wendy panicked and told him that there was a crazy woman in room 237. She was the murderer who pinched Danny. Jack went into room 237 and saw a naked woman coming out of the bathtub and kissing him. Jack began to kiss her, only to find in the mirror that the woman in his arms turned out to be a terrible rotting corpse. He ran out without thinking, but he hid everything from Wendy.

At the same time, Dick, a black chef who also owns sharping, also foresaw that something bad would happen in the hotel, so he began to try to get in touch with the Jack family through various channels.

Wendy asked Jack to take her and Danny down the mountain, and Jack became very angry. He's gone, and he's drunk in the bar where he went to the ballroom.

A grand party is being held in the ballroom at this time. Jack was knocked down by a waiter with a glass in his hand and covered in eggnog. The waiter carefully wiped Jack in the bathroom and inadvertently revealed his name to Jack as delbert Grady. Jack immediately realized that the waiter in front of him was the former manager who killed his wife and daughter. The waiter denied it at first, but at Jack's insistence, he finally admitted it. Besides, he tells Jack that Danny is trying to lead a stranger to the hotel with his sharp pen. Of course, this stranger is Dick, a black chef. He has been trying to contact them, but in vain, he decided to go up the mountain to find out for himself.

At this moment, Danny suddenly called a word "redrum" strangely. Jack cut off the radio and destroyed the snowmobile for downhill.

7: 00 or 8: 00 a.m.

Wendy couldn't bear the mental torture and decided to have a showdown with Jack for the last time on whether to go down the mountain. Holding a baseball bat, she carefully walked into the hall of Jack's daily work, only to find that all Jack's works-a large pile of paper-repeated a sentence in different formats: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The endless work bored Jack. At the same time, Danny in the other room saw the bright red "redrum" on the bathroom door again. Wendy was surprised and scared, and Jack suddenly appeared from behind her like a ghost. Jack began to press Wendy step by step and asked her why she never thought about her future and career. During the quarrel, Wendy knocked Jack unconscious with a bat and locked him in the storage room.

8: 00 or 4: 00 p.m.

Wendy found that the radio and snowmobile were destroyed. I'm thinking hard about how to get off. Suddenly, Danny shouted "Ray Drum" again. Wendy woke up from her dream and found that Jack ran out of the storage room at some unknown time and was frantically banging on the bedroom door. Frightened out of her wits, Wendy hurriedly pushed Danny out of the bathroom window, but she couldn't get through. Jack finally knocked down the bathroom door, and Wendy cut Jack's hand with a knife. At this point, Dick has come to the mountain, and Jack turns his attention to attacking Dick. Wendy finally survived and went out of the bedroom to find Danny. At this time, Wendy saw all kinds of visions: a man dressed in a naked bear costume, pretending to be a white KJ; There are many skulls in the ballroom and waiters who are bleeding and drinking blood. Wendy ran out of the hotel in despair. In front of Dick's snowmobile, she saw Danny, who had made a big circle with Jack and ran out of the hedge maze. Desperately, the mother and son climbed on the snowmobile and finally escaped from the wrong place before Jack found them. Jack froze to death in the maze that night.

Even after watching this film many times, I believe you still have many questions. As I said, the basic element of a good horror movie is the suspense setting of success. Maybe you will say, but there are many problems in this film that cannot be solved. Shh! Don't say that, or I believe Kubrick, a sly old fox, is secretly laughing at us in heaven! I dare not say that I 100% understand every detail, but at least the key part, I think I can answer your question. In fact, it is not difficult to understand this film, as long as you master three key links:

First, understand the historical background of the United States from the westward frontier movement to the Indian massacre. I made a rough search, and the two major events started and ended in1early 9th century and1late 9th century. Through these two campaigns, the United States got rid of the poor hat and set foot on the list of world powers.

At the beginning of the film, the person in charge of the hotel mentioned that the foundation of the hotel was the cemetery of Indians in those days, and even it was attacked when it was being built. /kloc-in the 0/9th century, the western frontier movement and the policy of genocide were being carried out. By the beginning of the 20th century, when the hotel was built, these two movements had basically ended. You can imagine how many Indian bones were buried under this glory!

Some film critics think that Jack was cursed by the dead Indians and retaliated against white Americans by killing his relatives. Of course, there is some truth in this statement, but my point is that Jack is actually a microcosm of the colonists who moved westward in the western frontier movement, and his wife and son can be regarded as a portrayal of the Indian aborigines who were killed that year. Why? There is one of the most obvious hints in the film: at the beginning of the film, when Jack was driving with his wife and children to the hotel, he talked about a group of "Dona people, colonial organizations in the Fan era", who were buried in the snow in the nearby mountains. At first, I didn't know what this "Fan Age" really meant. But in the end, when Jack first went to the bar in the ballroom to get drunk, he once said two words to Lloyd, the bartender: "The white man's mission is …", and the other sentence was: "I came back after suffering in the van for five months …" Maybe many people didn't notice these two words at all, especially the last sentence. I didn't understand it repeatedly at first, and I didn't understand why I suddenly came. " Stayed there for five months? Later I tried to find the answer from the word "truck". Looking up the English-Chinese dictionary, one of truck's solutions is an open truck. At this time, I suddenly realized that this coincides with the "caravan era" mentioned in the title, but the translator has no connection with the context, and the translation before and after is asymmetric, which has caused a misunderstanding. Understand this, and then check online, it is easy to find that the so-called "carriage era" is actually synonymous with the pioneering movement in the western United States, because most pioneers who moved westward liked to use open trucks as transportation at that time, so this statement was made.

By then, I believe the audience can easily understand why I said that Jack represented the colonists who went west in those days. However, he was only a writer at first, and his career was rather bumpy. Why did he suddenly become a microcosm of the colonists? This is my second point.

Second, who owns Sharpin in the film?

Of course, many people think I am an idiot. Of course, this movie clearly tells us that Jack's son Danny and black chef Dick both own Sharpening. This is certainly good. But what I want to say is that there are two roles with sharping hidden in the film.

First of all, if the audience has carefully watched the film at least three times, or carefully scrutinized the details of the film I reviewed above, it is not difficult to find the following suspense: Why can Jack feel the position of their mother and son in the maze from the model on the table? Why did Jack dream that he killed his wife and children the day before the accident, and he really started chasing them the next day? Why can Jack see the bartender when he goes to the ballroom to get drunk, but Wendy can't? Why did Jack approach Room 237 and see a naked woman, but actually a rotting corpse? Why did Jack meet Grady when he went to the ballroom for the second time? Yes! Jack has a bright spot, too! His sharpness is used most and most strongly in this film. As mentioned earlier, sharping is the product of interactive stimulation of subjective consciousness and objective environment. As the name implies, the strength of Shaping's ability is directly proportional to their influence. Now, based on this understanding, let's analyze the whole process of Jack from check-in to madness, which is very logical:

Jack used to be a teacher, and his income was not high. Because of his life, he had to change to a writer, and because of his financial situation, he was forced to be employed as a hotel manager. He is eager to find inspiration and write a good work in these five months of isolated and quiet life. In life, it seems that no matter how hard Jack tries, he will never be a good father, just as he complained to Lloyd, the bartender: "As long as I am alive, that bitch … she won't let me forget what happened." Obviously, because of his son Danny's unintentional injury after drinking a few years ago, his wife Wendy has always kept it in mind, and often used it as a blow to his sense of responsibility and self-confidence as a father. On the surface, in order to maintain family harmony and trust of his son, Jack tried his best to give up drinking, and he hasn't touched a drop of wine for five months. In fact, however, Wendy's constant exposure of her scars has deeply hurt his self-esteem. Coupled with the unsuccessful career, his psychology is actually extremely fragile. It is worth mentioning that he stressed that he had not touched alcohol for "five months" and said that he had "stayed in the truck for five months". We can feel that Jack has gradually accepted the objective hints of "Dona Organization" and "The foundation of the hotel is an Indian cemetery" in advance.

As a man, what he needs most is the comfort of his relatives when his career and family are not satisfactory. But obviously, Wendy is not a competent wife at this point. She didn't care about Jack's fragile self-esteem, but hit him intentionally or unintentionally. After seeing the scar on Danny's neck, her first reaction was to scold Jack loudly, regardless of the truth. At the same time, she doesn't know how much pressure her husband has and how to help him ease it. After the accident, she greeted Jack many times and asked him to take them down the mountain. As Jack said, "Have you thought about it for even a minute? Have you considered my responsibility to my employer? Have you considered my future? " Of course, as a mother, her behavior is understandable, but as a wife, her behavior undoubtedly gave Jack a shot in the arm.

Jack walked into the ballroom for the first time on the premise that Wendy couldn't distinguish the misunderstanding. At this time, he was extremely angry and miserable, unable to get the understanding of his family, and his future was bleak. Along with the two hints he had accepted, he saw Lloyd. At this time, he is eager to anesthetize himself with alcohol, hoping that someone will share his helplessness. But there was still a trace of reason in his heart at this time, so Lloyd just gave him two glasses of wine as he wished, without mentioning anything else to him. Jack still longs for the support of his family and has illusions. The beauty he saw in room 237 turned into a rotting corpse, which was actually a process of disillusionment. Of course, another factor is that his subconscious has accepted the psychological hint that the former administrator mentioned to him before to kill his wife and daughter here.

When he entered the ballroom for the second time, he had a big fight with Wendy about going down the mountain and slammed the door. At this time, he was completely desperate for his wife's understanding and comfort. His heart was full of anger, so this time he saw delbert Grady. This shows that his feelings for his wife and children at this time can no longer be compared with the long-standing dissatisfaction in his heart. Grady told him that his wife and children had to be "corrected" for trying to escape from the hotel. Obviously, for Jack at this time, the more his wife and children want to escape from the hotel, the more they want to ruin his future and challenge his dignity as a husband and father, so they must be stopped in time like Grady.

As Wendy found the sentence in Jack's manuscript: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The great pressure made Jack on the verge of collapse. However, it is too late. Jack's subconscious has turned into a "western colonist" who is bent on defending his dignity and striving for his future and honor. His wife and son became obstacles in his eyes, and his mind was completely alienated.

In addition, Jack constantly shows his acumen in other parts of the film. From the beginning, he felt that this place was "deja vu". At this time, his sharping is still vague, not particularly strong, because it has not been greatly stimulated. Later, he saw the bartender, delbert Grady and naked women ... As he was stimulated more and more, his keenness became stronger and stronger.

Another hidden character with Sharpin in the film is Jack's wife Wendy. In fact, Wendy's Sharp is very weak. It was only at the last minute that she was greatly stimulated by her husband's madness and was able to see those strange sights.

Third, Kubrick's word game.

Kubrick is really cunning. He played word games in several places in the film, making the plot more mysterious and complicated:

Charles Grady & delbert Grady

I wonder if the audience noticed that the former manager mentioned by the hotel manager was Charles Grady, and the one who appeared in front of Jack later was delbert Grady. This detail tells us that delbert Grady, Lloyd or a large group of people in the ballroom are not ghosts, but Jack's subconscious figures under countless psychological hints; Ghosts don't get names wrong, only the products of the subconscious mind have this uncertainty. So when Jack saw the bartender for the first time, he immediately called out his name Lloyd.

2、redrum

The word * * * appeared three times in the movie, all in Danny's mouth or mind. I think most of the audience didn't notice the word, or even if they did, they didn't know what to say. Because this word has no subtitle translation, it can only be explained by the audience according to their own understanding of the film. Judging from the frequency and occasion of this word, it must have special significance. What is this?

At first, I tried to use hyphenation. There are two ways of decomposition: red+rum and re+ drum. Rum means wine or eccentricity, but this literal meaning is meaningless, while the latter can be interpreted as "knocking on the door repeatedly", but this pronunciation does not match the movie. It was not until the fourth time I watched the film that I suddenly realized that I had walked into Kubrick's text trap.

I don't know if the audience has noticed, but what appears in Danny's mind is the "redrum" he wrote on the bathroom door, in which the four letters "drum" are upside down. What does this remind us? Yes! Turn the word "redrum" upside down! What is this? -murder! Murder! So the meaning is quite clear. The letter "re" is not written backwards. It can be understood that these two letters need to be emphasized so that they can be connected again as "re-murder"! Murder again! Danny's Shapin is not particularly strong, because he didn't get much stimulation before the accident, but the habit of talking with Tony for a long time made him spontaneously use Shapin to remotely perceive some imminent dangerous things.

Pengche era&; Trucks-Interpretation of Trucks

This point has been stated in detail before, so I won't go into details.

After reading the three points I said above, do you think this film is no longer so difficult to understand? Of course, some small problems can also be explained accordingly:

The scar on Danny's neck can be attributed to the * * * effect of the Shaping family of three: Jack has a trace of "the tragedy of the former administrator" in his heart, and Danny was troubled by "the bad things that happened in Room 237" before. Wendy saw the scar on Danny's neck according to the harm that Jack did to him a few years ago.

Jack was locked in the storage room by Wendy. How did he get out? Shining! Just like the dialogue between the black chef and Danny at the beginning of the film: "There are many people who own Shapin, but they don't know it at all, let alone how powerful it is!" How powerful is Shapin? Again, it depends on the degree of stimulation of subjective consciousness and objective environment.

However, it is worth mentioning that for the interpretation of Room 237, many film critics believe that the number 237 represents the 237-day massacre of Indians in the United States. This statement is groundless. According to historical records, the American genocide policy lasted for about a century, only 237 days, and it was absolutely impossible to reduce the population of India from more than 30 million to less than 800,000.

This film has been regarded as the best horror film in the world since it came out. The playwright's conception is ingenious and wonderful, reaching an unprecedented level. At least it is no exaggeration to say that so far, no similar film can surpass its achievements. At the same time, the shooting technique of this film is also extremely brilliant. The moving follow-up lens and the child's perspective are used many times in the film, especially when Danny rides past Room 237, the look-up lens is quite excellent, which sets off a climax of fear and tension. In addition, the light and shadow flow effect of the surrounding environment itself also gives the audience a strange and cold atmosphere.

Some people say that watching this film is actually watching a man's destruction process. Some people say that this is a history of Indian blood and tears in disguise. As the saying goes, different people have different opinions. A good movie will never stay on the superficial level. Even if you watch it 10 thousand times, you can have a new feeling Why should we forcibly weaken its original appeal?

The scene that the lady saw leaving blank for the bartender was adapted from Stephen King's original work. In the original book, there are two figures at the dance of 192 1. One is a rich investor who has invested a lot of money in this hotel, and the other is a young man who is obsessed with the rich. The rich man teased the young man that he would be allowed to sleep with him if he dressed like a pug and obeyed like a pug.