What about all the other paranormal shit with the kid?
Yes but it really couldn’t do shit without Jack’s slow descent into insanity.
Can you blame him for going nuts?
A bright, ambitious young-ish man, out of work and desperate for money, who unwittingly fell into a guilt-riddled relationship with a needy, simplistic victim and took on the enormous responsibility of raising another man’s son with her. He can’t drink, he can’t relax, he is clearly starved for male companionship, and he’s slowly wasting his life barely satisfying the endless emotional needs of Shelley Duvall and shouldering the financial burdens of raising her special needs son.
Now he has an opportunity: a chance to hold down a pleasant, respectable job AND make his mark on the literary world in one fell swoop.
But he can’t. It won’t change a thing. The job won’t get rid of Shelley Duvall’s whispy wimpering needling voice.
The book won’t give him a son of his own, or cure Danny’s bizarre temperament.
He is trapped like a rat, pacing around his prison with nobody for company but his obligations and responsibilities and not an ounce of freedom for himself.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
So he snaps, and while he does it there’s a hostile entity lurking about to push him further than he ever thought imaginable; to really shake him up, and to offer him all the good things he’s been missing in life. All he has to do is remove those two little pesky obligations and he’s home free.
Came to post this. This video unironically ends all Shining debate. All of the pieces fit and once you watch the movie with this perspective, literally all of it makes sense.
Yes but it really couldn’t do shit without Jack’s slow descent into insanity.
Can you blame him for going nuts?
A bright, ambitious young-ish man, out of work and desperate for money, who unwittingly fell into a guilt-riddled relationship with a needy, simplistic victim and took on the enormous responsibility of raising another man’s son with her. He can’t drink, he can’t relax, he is clearly starved for male companionship, and he’s slowly wasting his life barely satisfying the endless emotional needs of Shelley Duvall and shouldering the financial burdens of raising her special needs son.
Now he has an opportunity: a chance to hold down a pleasant, respectable job AND make his mark on the literary world in one fell swoop.
But he can’t. It won’t change a thing. The job won’t get rid of Shelley Duvall’s whispy wimpering needling voice.
The book won’t give him a son of his own, or cure Danny’s bizarre temperament.
He is trapped like a rat, pacing around his prison with nobody for company but his obligations and responsibilities and not an ounce of freedom for himself.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
So he snaps, and while he does it there’s a hostile entity lurking about to push him further than he ever thought imaginable; to really shake him up, and to offer him all the good things he’s been missing in life. All he has to do is remove those two little pesky obligations and he’s home free.
it was supposed to be about alcoholism but kubrick took that mostly out so now it's just about nothing
i didn't read all that but boo fricking hoo. he is self employed and gets paid to stay in a resort. he has a great wife and kid and nothing to worry about.
the things boomers cried over really are incredible.
Kubrick said the ghost letting Jack out of the fridge was meant to explicitly confirm that yes, the hotel is evil and haunted and it's not just in Jack's head.
The hotel is evil and possesses/temps/manipulates other "evil" beings. Jack sexually assaulted Danny when he was younger and was immediately influenced by the hotel which slowly turned him crazy. Same situation happened to the previous caretaker.
You guys who think she is bad will literally never find happiness
You cannot recognize quality. This is a quality woman. She is far more feminine and maternal than any woman you are likely to find and all you can do is shit on her. You will marry some awful modern woman because you don't even recognize what a woman is supposed to look like
You know this movie only works in Europe because if it was based in America then Wendy would have shot Jack dead with her ccw the second he went crazy and that would be that.
In the book, Dick Hallorann, the chef, tells Danny that he can sense a little bit of the Shining in both his parents, too, but Danny is much more sensitive. That's why both Jack and Wendy see the ghosts as well at times. Also, in the end (I may be remembering this wrong, it's been a long time since I read the book), Wendy and Danny are in Florida with Hallorann. The Two adults are talking while they watch Danny fish off a dock.
Also, Jack doesn't intentionally sabotage the radio. He hears his father's voice coming from it and destroys it.
Yeah, I think that's also the case. Jack and Wendy maybe have a mild form of the Shining, but Danny's overwhelming Shining ability wakes the spirits up and it becomes so powerful that both parents start seeing things too.
No, he was just literally going insane
What about all the other paranormal shit with the kid?
The kid was just a fricking moron and scatman cruthers probably touched his penis in the boiler room.
What about the skeletons, and the old guy going "COOL PARTY" to Wendy?
danny was raped by his father
Came to post this. This video unironically ends all Shining debate. All of the pieces fit and once you watch the movie with this perspective, literally all of it makes sense.
What if the real hotel were the friends we made along the way.
What about the picture at the end? Did it mean he was in Hell?
his soul trapped with the others
Yes but it really couldn’t do shit without Jack’s slow descent into insanity.
Can you blame him for going nuts?
A bright, ambitious young-ish man, out of work and desperate for money, who unwittingly fell into a guilt-riddled relationship with a needy, simplistic victim and took on the enormous responsibility of raising another man’s son with her. He can’t drink, he can’t relax, he is clearly starved for male companionship, and he’s slowly wasting his life barely satisfying the endless emotional needs of Shelley Duvall and shouldering the financial burdens of raising her special needs son.
Now he has an opportunity: a chance to hold down a pleasant, respectable job AND make his mark on the literary world in one fell swoop.
But he can’t. It won’t change a thing. The job won’t get rid of Shelley Duvall’s whispy wimpering needling voice.
The book won’t give him a son of his own, or cure Danny’s bizarre temperament.
He is trapped like a rat, pacing around his prison with nobody for company but his obligations and responsibilities and not an ounce of freedom for himself.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
So he snaps, and while he does it there’s a hostile entity lurking about to push him further than he ever thought imaginable; to really shake him up, and to offer him all the good things he’s been missing in life. All he has to do is remove those two little pesky obligations and he’s home free.
Fascinating.
it was supposed to be about alcoholism but kubrick took that mostly out so now it's just about nothing
i didn't read all that but boo fricking hoo. he is self employed and gets paid to stay in a resort. he has a great wife and kid and nothing to worry about.
the things boomers cried over really are incredible.
>i didn't read all that but boo fricking hoo
Way to miss the point of the character
>took on the enormous responsibility of raising another man’s son with her.
what
Is that from the book?
Kubrick said the ghost letting Jack out of the fridge was meant to explicitly confirm that yes, the hotel is evil and haunted and it's not just in Jack's head.
The hotel itself is the evil entity
Imagine if in The Shining, Jack said "HEEEEEERE'S JOURNEY!!!" then Any Way You Want It started playing
what if he said
>ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty
The hotel is evil and possesses/temps/manipulates other "evil" beings. Jack sexually assaulted Danny when he was younger and was immediately influenced by the hotel which slowly turned him crazy. Same situation happened to the previous caretaker.
Yeah the hotel has a negative energy because of the traumatic spiritual events, Indian burial ground, and other bad things that happened in room 237
Dude just wanted to write in peace and silence and his fricking awful wife is crying all the time
You guys who think she is bad will literally never find happiness
You cannot recognize quality. This is a quality woman. She is far more feminine and maternal than any woman you are likely to find and all you can do is shit on her. You will marry some awful modern woman because you don't even recognize what a woman is supposed to look like
Yeah she was really cute despite not being conventionally attractive.
I saw the simpsons episode a bunch of times and was disappointed when i finally saw the movie that he didn't write all over the walls
You know this movie only works in Europe because if it was based in America then Wendy would have shot Jack dead with her ccw the second he went crazy and that would be that.
In the book, Dick Hallorann, the chef, tells Danny that he can sense a little bit of the Shining in both his parents, too, but Danny is much more sensitive. That's why both Jack and Wendy see the ghosts as well at times. Also, in the end (I may be remembering this wrong, it's been a long time since I read the book), Wendy and Danny are in Florida with Hallorann. The Two adults are talking while they watch Danny fish off a dock.
Also, Jack doesn't intentionally sabotage the radio. He hears his father's voice coming from it and destroys it.
The idea is that Danny is like a psychic battery and him being in the house powers it into life.
Yeah, I think that's also the case. Jack and Wendy maybe have a mild form of the Shining, but Danny's overwhelming Shining ability wakes the spirits up and it becomes so powerful that both parents start seeing things too.
It's a Steve King story. Every one has an "evil entity" that's just a metaphor for your dad getting blackout drunk and molesting you.
Just read the Stephen King book and related materials or watch Dr. Sleep. If you just want to felate Kubrick, just watch Eyes Wide Shut.
He was possessed by systemic whiteness
>hotel is supposed to be empty
>there's a bunch of people in the bar, a woman in a room, kids playing in the halls, that guy and his gay dogman