The Shining (1980)

Today is May 24, 2020. The film was released on May 23, 1980.

It’s been 40 years since the film was released and today saying “I like The Shining” is the same as saying “I like Louis Armstrong” - everyone loves The Shining 😁

‼️ There will be spoilers ahead, if you haven’t watched it yet, run and watch it and then read on.

Of course, the film is ≠ the book.

The great Stephen King came up with a story that was terrible in its essence, but very kind in its manner.

– You are just a mask, Danny replied. – You don’t have a real face. You are not yet as dead as the others, and therefore the hotel needs you. But when it's all over, there will be nothing left of you at all.

The great Stanley Kubrick made a truly scary movie with a slight hint of a happy ending.

And it’s scary in this film not when a woman comes out to attack you, but scary when a child goes to pick up a fire truck from the room where his father is sleeping.

The general idea of ​​the book is picked up correctly, but pushed to the limit.

When a family is locked in an isolated place, all understatements and ideological decisions are taken to the point of absurdity. Self-isolation opens up moral boils and highlights the difference in values ​​between different family members.

A boy's imaginary friend appears after his father once dislocated his shoulder.

After this, family conflicts are perceived more harshly than any bullshit.

And of course a mask or a contract with a net force.

The father drinks a strange drink (in a bar where there is nothing..) and his consciousness becomes cloudy.

Naturally, we understand that the father gives his soul and is possessed by a spirit that wants to leave everyone in this hotel forever.

Mirrors are an important element of the film.

They reflect the duality of the world and the character.

The radiance, like the influence of the hotel, are forces of an unusual nature and they are mirrored by the human mind.

Exactly the same allusion is used in the environment.

Contrast Denver (north) and Florida (south) 😄

In the weather forecasts that the heroes see on TV.

Well, at the end of the book the hotel is destroyed - the series of murders stops.

He circled the barn and directed the snowmobile back on their own trail. The Overlook by this time had turned into a huge torch reaching into the sky. Impressive gaps appeared in the walls, and truly hellish flames blazed inside. Hot, dirty streams of melted snow ran through the surviving gutters.

In the film - no.

And one more funny moment...
The cook who came to save the mother and child in the film dies.

In the book he remains alive.

If we draw an analogy to other film adaptations of Stephen King’s works, then in Pet Sematary (2019) the neighbor who told the main character the secret of the cemetery also subsequently dies due to the fact that he said something that was not necessary.

In The Shining, the cook also talks about the room... the same one.

A legendary film that does not lose its relevance and problems over time.

Family problems have been and will be the cause of conflicts even without the outside influence of spirits and sinister hotels

In this regard, “The Shining” will scare more than one generation of children and their parents. 😅