Can Anyone Explain The Shining to me?!


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Can Anyone Explain The Shining to me?

So my freind and I watched the Original The Shining last night, and we're bothe confused as to what the hesk happened in that movie. Like was Danny a possed kid with some weird spirit named Tony living in him??? we did not get that at all... we just kinda made fun of it for a while... but it didn't make sense! What importance does Tony play???? and then, Why does the wife start seeing skeletons in the hotel at the end of the movie?? and where was all the blood that was flooding the hallway coming from??? ok and then the big thing that we couldn't figure out was, why the heck was jack in the picture from the 1920's????? Can someone please explain this to me???


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"The Shining" is essentially a ghost story, and the Overlook Hotel, not Jack or Danny or Wendy, is the main character. It is a magnet for evil, and it it holds within itself all the evil which has ever been committed there. Ordinary people don't sense that anything is wrong, but those with extrasensory perception (called the "shine" in this case) can. Danny shines on the hardest, but Wendy also has the shine. In Dannys case he is guided by a being or spirit which is the Overlooks counterpart (good vs. evil) and is represented in the imaginary friend Danny calls Tony. The Overlook knows it can use Jack to perpetuate the evil there because he is weak; he is the Overlooks kind of guy. Danny and his guiding spirit are, however, a threat to its plans. Ergo, Danny must be destroyed (and seeing that it loves murder it doesn't mind at all if Jack takes out Wendy as well.)

As Jack progresses into madness the Overlook grows stronger, feeding off of Jacks murderous insanity, and that is why Wendy, who doesn't shine nearly as much as Danny, is now able to see what the Overlook projects. The halls of the Overlook never actually ran with rivers of blood and there aren't really closets full of skeletons; they are visual representations of the Overlooks collective violent history.

The picture of Jack at the end was added by Stanley Kubrick for the film. It was not in the book, just as the ending of the movie was different from the book (I won't say what but suffice to say the threat Danny brought with him is fulfilled). I think the picture was supposed to represent the fact that Jack has always been there, meaning that as long as there is weakness there will be evil because the weak are more easily manipulated than the strong.

If you get a chance, read the book. The film did a great job at visualization (Kubrick is, after all, a great director) but it is not as comprehensive in telling the story.


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