Maestro Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Horror movie 'Shining' What is the message?

" Shining " which Steven King 's novel of the same name made into film by Stanley Kubrick is a man who is supposed to be a manager of a hotel that will be closed in winter will be crazy and will try to murder his wife and daughter It is a horror movie. A movie that describes the message put in such a shining is published on YouTube.

The Shining: Ending Explained


Speaking of shining, this crazy Jack's face is impressive ... ...

After Jack's wife Wendy and his son Danny ran away, an impressive cut also entered in the last of the movie.

In the picture of 1921 decorated on the wall of the stage Overlook hotel, there is a human being who seems to be Jack reflecting with a smile. It is an important factor to understand the shining that this person who is unlikely to be jack chronologically has meaning to the movie.

It is the theme of "History and linkage of violence" that is underlying in shining.

Jack finally freezes outdoors ... ...

By inserting the cut of the picture at the end, "If Jack in 1980, which is the time in the movie, is a resurrected person in the picture of 1921, it will play again even if it freezes Give the audience the imagination "Is not it?"

Jack's resurrection means that blood flows by violence.

Even in the movie, Jack says there is a scene depicted as "reborn existence".

"It feels like I was here before even though I am stupid, but there is a time to feel" deja vu "," the scenes Jack speaks ... ...

In a scene where you talk to Lloyd, a ghost bartender, Jack says "I love Lloyd for a long time" and so on.

Jack is in Shining, not the only being reborn ... ...

It is the same as the hotel waiter Grady.

Grady told Jack, "You have been the manager here forever" and will help Jack recognize himself as a reborn.

In the hotel there is a sight that the present and the past intermixed ... ...

The atmosphere which can not escape from violent past history is created.

Jack is in the picture of 1921 ... ...

It is already one of history.

The main theme of the shining is that it can not escape from the huge power of the chain of violence.

While the family heads to the hotel, the story of Wendy's " donor corps " also implies a theme behind the scenes.

This incident that the settlers who were shut down by the snow and had fallen short of food ran to the human carnivorous ... ...

It suggests that environmental isolation creates cruelty.

In addition, the overlook hotel was built was land deprived from Native American ... ...

The massacre that occurred between the indigenous people and the settlers Americans long ago is not unrelated to the chain of violence flowing in the story.

Jack has an aversion to native American, and is hitting a ball against a native American painting.

Also, my son Danny and ...

It is the United States flag that means wearing red or blue worn by his wife Wendy.

The United States flag is also appearing in the story.

The history of America itself has the history of violence behind.

Jack is drunk in a chain of violence, but fails to kill Wendy and Danny.

However, according to the last picture, "The chain of violence has not ended yet, it seems to me that Jack will revive again."

Moreover, the hotel which is the stage is like a labyrinth ... ...

It reminds me of a huge labyrinth appeared in the legend of Minotaur . The king continued to offer a sacrifice in the labyrinth ... ...

In Shining, Danny succeeds in escaping from the labyrinth like Teaceus who defeated Minotaur in legend. By this, the sacrificial chain was cut off.

In the movie, the spiritual problem of Jack is drawn as if it triggered the incident, and the characters hardly notice the hotel's evil intent.

Jack has a lot of stress and is lunged down by a lonesome hotel ....

Although the chain of violence triggered, Jack itself is emphasized in the movie that it is an evil existence.

Jack tries to harm her family ......

Wendy and Danny are depicted as moral beings, which is a contrasting existence.

Also depicted as Jack's dark side is alcohol dependence.

Jack is alcoholism ... ...

In the past I also had Danny injured.

Alcohol will release Jack 's repression and let it follow violent instincts.

In addition, the shining of the movie is different from the original novel by Mr. Steven King in many places.

In the original, there are many sympathetic descriptions in Jack, and it goes to the mercy by the wicked intention of the hotel ... ...

In the movie, the problem that Jack himself is rather emphasized.

Also there is a difference in ending. In the movie Jack is frozen in the maze closed by the snow, but it ends ......

In the novel we explode the boiler and make the hotel flame up.

"There was a difference in opinion between me and Kubrick," King said, and he seems to be dissatisfied with the development of the movie.

In addition to the history of the chain of violence continuing from the time of the settlers in the shining of the movie, he also focuses on issues that are in the human mind, such as Jack's own violent tendency and alcohol dependence.