The Shining Movie Meaning

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The Shining (Kubrick, 1980) is one of the best scary movie I have seen. It use the sound track and the low angle shooting to represent the terror. It does’t have very bloody scenes, but It can make us want to dig more about the details in this movie.
The first time to see the movie, I don’t understand the meaning of “redrum” which is written by Danny with the lipstick. Then I tried to translate it, I still can’t understand why they put such a word in this movie. After the second time seeing this movie at home, I thought there might have two explanation of this word. First, when Danny’s mom Wendy see “redrum” in the mirror, the “redrum” changed in to “murder”. That infers to that there was a murder happened in this hotel that connected to the start of the movie. Another possibility is the “redrum” suggests …show more content…

Because they can see the things will happen in the future. However, is there any possibility that Jack also has the shining? He can see the scenes that Danny and Wendy playing in the tree maze from the model. Another things we should consider is his dream. In his dream, he killed Danny and Wendy. That is also a prediction to his future actions (try to kill his son and wife).
At the last part of this movie, we can see the picture hanging on the wall and Jack is one of those people in that picture. It was taken in 1921. In the picture, he is standing in the most eye- catching position. He maybe the owner of this hotel at that time. But in the movie (1982) he becomes the owner of the hotel again! I think that’s why he mentions to Danny that he wants to stay in the hotel forever, forever, forever…… His life is repeating and repeating. Furthermore, he is the main character of the repeating stories and he will die in the hotel every time!
Another thing is the bartender’s name is Lloyd, and to my horror, the little actors’ name is Danny Lloyd. I don’t know is it a coincidence or the director’s careful

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