Why is the movie "The Shining" ranked as the No. 1 horror film?

Before watching "The Shining", I had not known this film for a long time. Because of its reputation as "the No. 1 horror film", I was even trembling during the whole process, for fear that something shocking would suddenly appear. The uncomfortable scenes, however, did not make me feel particularly scary after watching the entire film.

If I only read it briefly, I might not even bother with this NO.1 title.

In fact, this film is suitable for watching carefully several times before you can taste the fear in your heart.

There are many seemingly illogical plots in the film, which also give the audience a lot of room for discussion. For example, when Danny writes "murder" backwards, what does the reflection his mother saw in the mirror mean?

Who let Jack out after being locked up? When he was locked up, the door The direction of the handle is reversed; what is the identity of the black uncle, and why does he have "The Shining" like Danny; is the Shining good or bad;

Who has the wound on Jack's neck? what is left behind; what is the meaning of room 237; why can Danny and Jack see the woman in the bathtub, but mother can’t... There are no answers in the film, and everything is left to the audience to infer.

So there are different interpretations, and everyone seems to make sense.

A horror movie that doesn’t look too scary, leaves so many mysteries, and makes you feel more and more terrifying the more you guess, that’s really remarkable. This feeling can best be described as "terrible when I think about it".

The climax of the film is the black and white photo on the hotel wall at the end. So, Jack became a member of the Evil Hotel?

Some people interpret this movie as a microcosm of the American pioneer era, which seems not inappropriate, because the dialogue between Jack and the bartender in the film mentions "white people's anxiety" many times. , the plot direction and ending also conform to this inference. But people who don’t know American history can simply think that this is just a large haunted house that inflicts mental torture on a family.

No matter which interpretation it is, the director will be so happy that he smiles in heaven. Isn’t this the effect he wants? If you can see through it at a glance, can it still be called a classic?

Only based on human nature, this film also grasped the idea. Wendy and Jack once had a very happy life. Because of Jack’s increasingly depressed economic status, the family moved into this empty hotel. . Jack typed and wrote day after day, Wendy took care of the housework, and the children explored every corner of the hotel. It looked very beautiful.

However, the setbacks suffered in the career cannot be easily solved by changing the environment. If there were no supernatural events in this hotel, and the family lived alone in a large space that was almost isolated from the world, normal people would You will also feel mental anxiety. Without a social environment, it is difficult for people to deal with problems correctly, not to mention encountering so many incredible things.

The scar on her son’s neck made Wendy lose her mind and blame Jack. She did not consider whether the injury was caused by her son at all. The couple gradually lost trust, and the wife faced a man who might have domestic violence tendencies. My husband and later witnessed the crazy words typed on the printer: all work and no play make jack a dull boy, all work and no play makes jack a madman. The wife's mentality is also unbalanced, and the rift between the two leads to a dramatic change later. We see Jack who looks like crazy, Wendy who is frightened, and Danny who behaves strangely.

All these visions constitute a picture of horror that makes people tremble from the bottom of their hearts, rather than the horror that can be seen with the eyes.

The highest level of a horror film is to psychologically break your defenses, and "The Shining" does that.

So this is why "The Shining" can be recognized as the No. 1 horror film by the world. Later, in "Ready Player One", Steven Spielberg paid tribute to "The Shining" The "sea of ??blood" and twin little girls scenes in "The Shining" are also the most visually shocking scenes in "The Shining".