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Flaws Don't Dim 'The Shining'. By JANET MASLIN. he hotel chef in "The Shining" is supposed to have remarkable psychic powers, but the movie never explains the strangest of this man's...
SPOILER. The most insanely thorough analysis of The Shining I've ever seen. Forewarning: It's a lot. Like an overwhelming amount of information. I've been combing through it and rewatching the film a few times over several days now, also watching other people's theories on what different things are and what they mean.
- Overview
- The Narrative World and The First Act
- The Second Act
- The Third Act
- Conclusion
In spite of being an enjoyable horror film that evokes myths and fables, The Shining does not present a rigorously canonical dramatic framework. Nevertheless, the three-act structure2 is respected: the first act starts at the beginning and ends when Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck; the second act starts when Jack enters th...
The protagonist of The Shining – hence, the Hero – is Jack Torrance, since the majority of sequences describe his actions which determine for the most part the development of the plot. On a pragmatic level, Jack’s desire concerns completing his tasks, namely writing his novel, being the caretaker, and – in the third act – killing his family and Hal...
In the following sequence Jack goes to the Gold Room (for the first time in the 119’ version, for the second in the 144’ one). This is the Crossing of the First Threshold for Jack, since he enters the Special World inside the Overlook Hotel. The second act has begun. Penderecki’s De Natura Sonoris no. 2, which started in the previous scene (while D...
In a sense, Jack takes the Road Back to the Ordinary World, as in the hero’s journey. Both in the first and in the third act he has no relationship with the ghosts; after escaping the pantry, he relates only to his family and to Hallorann. At the same time, the Special World invades the Ordinary World, since the ghosts become visible to Wendy as we...
Our study is intended as just a first step towards an all-encompassing dramaturgical analysis of The Shining. More research is needed in order to thoroughly examine the psychology of the characters, the progression of narrative events, the film’s relationship with the horror genre, the role of its stylistic patterning (both visual and aural) in the...
Jun 18, 2006 · Reviews. Isolated madness. 142 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1980. Roger Ebert. June 18, 2006. 7 min read. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a recovering alcoholic child-abuser, faces his demons again when he agrees to become caretaker of an isolated hotel. Stanley Kubrick’s cold and frightening “The Shining” challenges us to decide: Who is the reliable observer?
Mar 29, 2013 · Sean Baker’s thrilling film, starring Mikey Madison as a New York sex worker, pushes comic misadventure to the brink of chaos.
May 5, 2016 · What makes The Shining work so well is how adeptly and efficiently Kubrick and co-writer Diane Johnson draw us into King's narrative of domestic violence. Even as Jack Nicholson is touring the hotel, we're being given hints that there's a deep tension in the couple's relationship.
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Jul 26, 2020 · The Shining, indebted as it is to the fairy-tale but also inscribed in a very concrete material environment of late 1970s America, is undeniably a deeply strange, weird film—queer, even, in its twisted sensuousness and hints at non-normative sexuality and incest.
