Question about the shinning

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wazawski

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just watched the shinning...decent movie...i could see how it was way scary back when it came out but not so anymore....but what i didn't get was what was the deal with all those people they were seeing? were they actually real or just in his head? cause how did he get out of the kitchen where he was locked by his wife?
 
not to split hairs but its just one "n", "the shining." and i forget the details of the movie cause i havent seen it in a while but i think the idea is that he does actually interact with the people or person who used to work there way back in the day, who sorta convinces him to go apeshit himself. also he's obviously crazy
 
Nope, it's about the film, The Shinning. A band of pirates ride around, killing people and eating their shins.
 
no, its about the shining, a stephen king novel-turned-movie starring jack nicholson. you guys are silly.

the outside of the lodge in the movie, is timberline lodge on mt. hood. jusa lil trivia
 
The idea is that the place is haunted. As the black dude says in the beginning, buildings can have The Shining too, and this one certainly did. As a result, Jack's character sees the spirits and is driven insane by them, until eventually he becomes one of them. The story of the family being slaughtered doesn't repeat itself, he becomes THE person who slaughtered the family, which is why it shows his photo with all the other spirits at the end.

On a sidenote, I thought it was cool how in every shot Stanley Kubrick has the camera panning extremely slowly to create the objective POV from the ghosts perspective.
 
here's the plot, if you missed my post earlier

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i didn't know that and the shining scared the shit out of me a while back so i went to hood and i walked up from the main lodge and saw timberline and almost crapped my pants

i assumed the place was in some remote shithole
 
ok...well we were just talking about his in english for some reason

so first of all, the lady basically loses his son for a bit (cause he's all like "redrum, redrum, redrum"), and she also loses her husband. then she starts to see things. his signifies how apart from the world she feels. now, the reason for the animals is because the hotel was built on an old indian burial ground. in practially every scene there is some sort of reference to indians. and then the lady goes so out of her head that she sees the blood pouring out of the elevator which i'm guessing symbolizes all the deaths of the indians. but idk...do some reading online. i'm sure there's tons of things if u search like "the shining analysis" on google or something

what's pretty awesome though is that the hotel is the Timberline Lodge near Mt. Hood
 
You can overanalyse anything, which is obviously what you did with the whole natives thing.

What someone else said about the hotel having `the shining` and Jack becoming the guy who killed his family is correct. The blood is just to symbolize the death of the family before them... its just the same thing as those creepy twins and the chick in 237 (is that the right room number? i forget)...

The indian burial ground thing is just a stupid reference at the beginning to give an explanation for the hotel having the shining/being haunted
 
Anyone read the book? I thought it was interesting that they changed the ending for the movie even though the book's ending was much more movie-friendly (whole place blows up). Maybe the logistics of actually making it look like the building was blowing up were too much of a hassle.
 
io wait...my bad. i haven't seen the movie in a while and all i really remember is starting from the when the child says "redrum" over and over again. but the guy was her husband right? or maybe i'm thinking of some other movies...or just dreamt that or something. idk
 
1. Jack is the kids son and the chicks husband.

2. They are a family.

3. They go and live in the hotel for the winter

4. Turns out the people living there before Jack's family got pwnt by the dad with an axe.

5. Jack slowly goes crazy

6. Turns out that hotel is haunted

7. Jack tries to kill everyone, fails

8. You see a picture at the end of the movie, and in that picture (old black and white thing from a long time before the time in which the movie is set) you see Jack, with the name of the guy who killed his family in the same hotel in the same way ages ago. (thats where it gets weird and confusing)

9. End

10. ???

11. Profit
 
it's just to show that all the previous dads become jack figures when they live in that house...they go nuts and kill their family, it's not the same guy doing the same thing each time but his character is the same throughout the families that cycle through
 
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