Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is hired to take over the maintenance of the Overlook hotel, located in the mountains of Colorado during the winter months in which to stay closed. Until then moves with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd), no However, the long period of isolation and the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel, end up upsetting your mind.
Far from being the masterpiece that some preach, is overrated horror film of overwhelming a weak script and adapted the novel by Stephen King, is one of the less successful work of director.
After the dismal failure at the box office harvested by Barry Lyndon (his best film in my opinion), Kubrick chose to undertake the completion of a film that was much more commercial. In addition, we liked the idea of \u200b\u200bexploring one of the few gender who had not yet touched (not hard to imagine the enormous ego of Kubrick planning what was to be the best horror movie of all time). Unfortunately, the end result, although of unquestionable quality, was far from being fully satisfactory.
The Shining be ascribed to the subgenre of haunted houses, or houses damned if we use the term coined by writer Ángel Gómez Rivero. In this case, instead of an old house or mansion nineteenth century, we have a hotel where ghostly presences are due to be built on an ancient Indian burial ground and a gruesome crime committed years ago.
If initially only the child who perceives what is happening in the facilities of the hotel due to its ability to "shine" with the passage of time, evil spirits will exert increasing control more on the psyche of his father to finally be also visible before the terrified eyes of his mother.
One of the weaknesses of the script, I think, is that power is not possible ambiguity, since all the logic of the story is subject to a mere supernatural explanation. No delves into the characters and their psychological development continues, but simply especially in the case of Nicholson's character, they become puppets manipulated by entities unaccountable: Jack is not crazy about staying in an isolated context, which is toward what looked to be heading the film in its opening minutes, but by the will of some mischievous ghosts. There is no one psychological study, which would have been much more interesting. We opted for the easy.
Far above what counts is how the story goes, that's what ends up raising the work to a content category that did not deserve. Stressing the spectacular aerial maps of opening credits, the staging of large rooms emphasized with the use of wide angle or pompous and brilliant steadicam tracking shots of.
Magnificent is also the background music that accompanies the whole film, with an impressive selection of compositions by composers from the likes of Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki.
can not say the same about the interpretation of Jack Nicholson, too overacted and closer to the laughable than the horrific.
Finally, note that the most famous sequence in the film, one in which Jack, ax in hand, smash a door in order to slaughter his family, is practically identical to one that appeared in the silent masterpiece by Victor Sjöström The Phantom Carriage ( Körkarlen , 1921). Kubrick, as a big movie buff who was sure he knew and was probably inspired by her.
Rating: Good .
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