Shh! Hold your tongue and tell you a ghost story

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We are used to seeing domestic gory plots and the same scary techniques. Let’s change our taste and watch a high-end foreign classic movie - "The Shining". "The Shining" is a movie adapted from the novel of the same name. The novel was published in 1977 and is a classic thriller. The movie was put on the screen on May 23, 1980. It has been 36 years now. It is a quite old film, and of course it is an absolute classic. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of horror master Stephen King. Next, I will take you into the world of "The Shining".

"The Shining" means a special ability of supersensory precognition, but I personally think that this ability only plays a role in setting off the atmosphere in the film and creating a sense of tension! Let’s briefly talk about the plot:

The protagonist of the story, Jack, is an unemployed college teacher who found a job at the Yuanwang Hotel in the mountains. During the long winter, Jack, his wife and son will stay in the hotel for several months. He planned to go big and make a difference in writing. While guarding the hotel, the atmosphere gradually changed, and abnormal things finally inevitably happened.

Many people have a feeling that they don’t understand it after watching it. It feels inexplicable. I watched it no less than ten times before I felt I understood something a little bit. Later, I went to read the original work and finally figured it out. Understand, the characteristic of the plot of the film is that we feel that there is no logic and it is a mess, but if we look closely, we will find that the entire film is in the form of a diary from the moment Jack takes his wife Wendy and son Danny to check into the hotel. Let the plot unfold for us.

Day 1: In the morning, Jack told Wendy that he seemed familiar with this place. Later, his wife Wendy took their son into the hedge maze to play, and Jack saw Wendy and Danny in the maze model in the hotel.

The next day: The weather forecast informed that Denver was about to face a snowstorm. Then Wendy went to tell Jack the news, intending to remind everyone to prepare early, but Jack said that she interrupted his writing ideas and got angry. He also made a so-called "new rule" not to disturb him casually in the future. (This old man has a very explosive temper)

The third day: Things on this day were particularly simple and profound. Except for Wendy and Danny playing in the snow, the camera focused on Jack for a long time. on the face. His eyes looked dull and weird, with a mysterious smile on his face (this old man probably had a split personality).

Day 4: Wendy tried to communicate with the outside world by radio, and she succeeded. To prevent accidents, she left the radio on. And Danny saw the twin sisters for the third time, and even worse, he saw the tragic scene of the sisters' blood splattering when they died. Danny's Shining is activated for the third time, and it tells Danny that what he saw is not real.

Day Five: Wendy and Danny were watching TV, and Danny asked to go to the room to get his fire truck. Wendy asked him not to wake his father. But when Danny entered the room quietly, he found that Jack had not rested, but was sitting on the edge of the bed. Jack picked Danny up and said something to him. Jack repeatedly emphasized how much he loved Danny. This sequence may be the only slightly warm scene in the entire film, even though Jack's way of speaking and facial expressions become increasingly creepy and terrifying. (No one has such an expression while holding his son)

Day 6: Danny was playing in the corridor of the hotel. Suddenly a ball rolled in front of him. He looked up and saw what he had always been deeply afraid of. Who knew who opened the door to room 237? Driven by curiosity, he walked in anyway. At this time, Wendy, who was inspecting the boiler, suddenly heard Jack's frantic yelling. She ran over and woke up Jack who was struggling in the nightmare. Jack told her, "I just had the scariest dream in my life. I dreamed that I killed you and Danny, and not only killed you, I also cut you into pieces..." (I guess this is That's what he really thought)

At this time, Danny walked in from the outside without saying a word. Wendy was confused and approached him only to find a large bruise on Danny's neck from being pinched. Wendy thought of Jack's accidental dislocation of Danny's arm a few years ago when he was drunk, and she couldn't help but get angry and cursed Jack. (Angry Birds, ahem, this is not an advertisement, this is a metaphor)

Jack walked into the hotel ballroom in trouble and annoyance.

At this moment, he desperately needed alcohol to anesthetize himself, "No matter what the cost, even if it costs my damn soul." When he raised his head, he saw the bartender Lloyd standing in front of him. After a few glasses of wine, Jack The anger and grievance accumulated in the body finally broke out. (How depressing this is.) He blames Wendy and Danny for their influence on his life and future, and he gets out of hand. At this moment, Wendy ran over in panic and told him that there was a crazy woman in room 237, and she was the murderer who choked Danny. Jack walked into room 237 and saw a naked woman coming out of the bathtub and kissing him. Jack started to kiss her, but in the mirror he found that the woman in his arms turned out to be a terrifying rotting corpse. He ran out in despair, but hid everything from Wendy.

At the same time, Dick, a black chef who also had the Shining spirit, had a premonition that something bad was going to happen in the hotel, so he began to try to use various methods to solve the problem. Get in touch with Jack's family. Wendy demands that Jack take her and Danny down the mountain, and Jack becomes extremely angry. He walked away and once again went to the bar of the dance hall to get drunk.

A grand party was being held in the ballroom at this time. Jack was holding the wine glass when he was knocked down by a waiter and was splashed with eggnog. The waiter wiped Jack carefully in the bathroom and accidentally revealed to Jack that his name was Grady. Jack immediately realized something and asked the waiter in front of him if he was the previous administrator who killed his wife and daughter. The waiter initially denied it, but after Jack's insistence, he finally admitted it. Moreover, he told Jack that Danny was trying to use his Shining Spirit to lead a stranger to the hotel. Of course, this stranger was the black chef Tick who had been trying to contact them but failed and decided to go up the mountain to investigate in person.

At this moment Danny suddenly shouted the word "redrum" weirdly. Jack cuts off the radio and sabotages the snowmobile going down the mountain. Wendy couldn't stand the mental torture and decided to have a final showdown with Jack on whether to go down the mountain. Holding a baseball bat, she carefully walked into the hall where Jack worked daily, only to find all of Jack's works during this period - a large stack of paper, with a sentence repeated in different formats: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It probably means that the endless work has made Jack boring. At the same time, Danny in another room once again saw the bright red "redrum" on the bathroom door.

Wendy was shocked and frightened. Jack suddenly appeared from behind her like a ghost. Jack began to press on Wendy, asking her why she never considered her future and career. During the argument, Wendy knocked Jack unconscious with a bat and locked him in the storage room. (Hats off to the ladies man) Then it was discovered that the radio and snowmobile had been destroyed. Just as she was thinking about how to get out of the car, Danny suddenly shouted "redrum" again. Wendy woke up from her dream and found that Jack had ran out of the storage room at some point and was banging on the bedroom door frantically. The frightened Wendy forced Danny out of the bathroom window in desperation, but she couldn't get through. Jack finally broke open the bathroom door, and Wendy cut Jack's hand with a knife in desperation.

At this time, Tick had come to the mountain. Jack turned his attention to attacking Tick. Wendy finally survived and walked out of the bedroom to start looking for Danny. At this time, Wendy saw all kinds of things. Strange vision: a white man wearing a bear costume with his butt exposed; skulls covering the ballroom, and a waiter with a bloody head and a bloody head, drinking blood wine. Wendy ran out of the hotel desperately. In front of the snowmobile driven by Tick, she saw Danny, who had already circled around with Jack and ran out of the hedge maze. The mother and son climbed onto the snow desperately. The car finally escaped from this land of right and wrong before Jack found them. And Jack froze to death in the maze that night.

Jack's tragedy in the film was doomed from the beginning. He wanted to be a writer and was working hard to become a writer, but reality gave him too much pressure from his family, relatives, and wife. His virtuousness made him suffer. No matter what happened to him, his wife always faced him with a smile in life, so that he could only bury all kinds of depression in his heart.

In the film, when Jack is writing in the hall and is worried about having no clue, the appearance of his wife becomes the trigger, instantly igniting Jack's anger. Maybe everyone will have this experience. When you are extremely frustrated, , when you are extremely troubled and have self-doubt, if others say that you are awesome and powerful, you will feel that they are pitying you and deceiving you. If they say that you are useless and useless, you would like to go up and give them a slap. This kind of contradictory psychology can easily make people lose their minds, because it is easier to give up on yourself than reason, and the subconscious can no longer stop you. At this time, people are often very dangerous.

For his son Danny, Jack must love him. However, as a writer, he dreams of becoming famous, but under the pressure of reality, he has to raise his son and support the family, but he has nothing to do with these. He failed to do so. Although Jack once hurt Danny, his wife Wendy did not blame him too much for this matter. However, raising children is a matter of course for parents, so Jack's irritability comes from his inner guilt and anxiety. , because in his opinion, he has accomplished nothing, and the full-time wife Wendy has become the mainstay of the family, and yet he is looking for this kind of job as a caretaker. At the age of three, he cannot even support his wife and children. These are all factors that caused Jack Causes of psychological depression.

Therefore, he felt that his love for his wife and children was a stumbling block that hindered his creation, so he wanted to destroy them, destroy this ideal family, and return to his ideal state: no responsibility, There is no pressure or burden. He can be proud of his talents and pursue whatever he wants. This is the pessimism of idealists. As we often say, they want to do nothing and want to have everything. This has to make us think that there is no such thing as a pie in the sky, and even if there is, we will not smash it. onto your head.

It can be seen from the banquet in the hotel that Jack wants beautiful women, wants to be ostentatious, and wants to have all luxurious things. His conversation with the bartender is full of contempt for women, and in reality , his pockets are empty, and he is wearing a cheap jacket. In the final analysis, it is machismo that is at work. If Jack can let go, create with peace of mind with a pure mentality, cherish what he has now, and run this family well, even if the days If life is difficult, be happy! But sometimes fate is so wonderful and unpredictable. In the final analysis, it mainly depends on personal choice. No one can say that he can see himself clearly! And Jack can only make us sigh, and finally buried in the snow.

We are in the whirlpool of society, just like Jack, who wants to be successful and famous, and want to live a luxurious life, just like the hotel in The Shining, just like the photo in front of the article, the man in gorgeous clothes The clothes are the centerpiece of the entire party. Compared with Jack's days where he can only sit and type on the typewriter and worry about the response of the manuscript all day long, he is definitely willing to live such a luxurious life.

The really scary thing about The Shining is that we are following the same path as Jack. Not everyone is born with unique advantages. They don’t have to worry about material things and can pursue everything without any scruples. After all, they come from ordinary backgrounds. People are the main body of this world, and the time that belongs entirely to us is those twenty years, or at most thirty years, when we will have families and spend a lot of time raising children. All the obsessions and pursuits of the past will be left behind. You lost your fighting spirit, and finally found that your ideals were realized by others. You began to feel unfair, but you had to accept your fate. You gave half of your life to your children, and you had to act like a normal social person, and your children did not have the Before he knows how to survive, he will indulge in his own fantasy like you before and become a person like Jack. No one can escape from the cruel black hole of reality.

Life is a road of no return. We all hope to reach the peak of life. Who can resist the temptation of the top of the mountain? Everyone wants to stand on the top of the mountain and embrace all the small mountains, but we are all walking on the road to death. The end of life will eventually come to an end, but on the road, you choose to linger in the temptations and indulge in the endless reincarnation. in, unable to extricate myself. Or choose to care about the people around you, cherish everything you have, abandon those meaningless pride, the fame that gnaws at people's hearts, and bravely walk down the mountain to achieve nirvana. However, although we all know that the latter is right, in the face of the cruel reality, we always choose the former, because it is easier to escape because we do not want to live that difficult life. If Jack chooses to walk down the mountain bravely, who knows the outcome? So, bravely walk down the mountain. Maybe the scenery at the foot of the mountain is not as beautiful as the top of the mountain, but who said that the scenery at the foot of the mountain is not as beautiful as the mountain!