The Shining

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hey

i have just finished watching the shining again earlier this evening and i love the film and think it is a masterpiece but was wondering if anybody could clear up the final black and white picture at the end of it. the guy it zooms into im presuming is supposed to be Jack but it then says 1921 (iirc) and that parts always confused me. and ive never been able to figure it out. if somebody would put some views across that would be great.

;) cheers
 
I have always thought of it as a cobbled together set of plot ideas strung together. Superbly executed and acted but lacking coherence. No idea why it was called The Shining as that had a small and irrelevant part in the whole thing.
 
Because The Shining was the name Halloran gave to the gift (curse?) which he and Danny share, to be able to see things that others don't. If you struggled with The Shining, you must have really had problems with The Silence Of The Lambs?
 
isn't the picture just made up of all the souls who have been taken by the curse sort of thing - i always see it as them being trapped in some hellish limbo, with the photo being a physical manifestation of that - kind of a visual confirmation to the audience that the curse is real, and it wasn't just Jack losing his mind - really one of the simplest, but chilling, hair standing up moments in any horror film IMO.

Iain
 
The Shining is a brilliant film. Second rate story, but Stanley Kubrick is a genius and turns it round to a masterpiece of a film.

I believe that broadz and iain are totally right with their explanations of the 'shining' and picture respectivly.,

Is the picture not simply an extension of the scene in which he is in the ballroom and meets the guy who killed his daughters.
I can't remember it so i'm guessing a bit. Is it a picture of everyone in the ballroom?
 
pretty much - but at that point we don't really know if it's just in his head or not.

the scene at the end with the photo is the reveal that it was real, and not in his head.

Iain
 
here is a link to the final picture and the end of the filmBlack And White picture

and behe ^^how can you not find it scary> you gotta remember the film was made about TWENTY FIVE years ago so they did not have great special effects like films nowadays infact throughout the film i cant thing of any special effects used apart from maybe the sea of blood from the elevator
 
Yes, I got that, but as I said it didn't play that much of a part in the whole scheme of things. And I *got* SOTL just fine.

Maybe it doesn't help that I am not a fan of Nicholson in the first place.
 
If you want to experience the Shining IRL go and stay at the Adelphi in Liverpool. It's like stepping into the film, I kept expecting to bump into the twin girls or see his son peddling towarRAB me before the river of blood pours down the stairs! Not the most relaxing of hotel stays I can tell you! Damn freaky!!
 
Gotta agree. Plus Shelly Duval's character annoys the hell out of me. Tho I do love the 'Here's Johnny' scene.
The adaption of Misery was a far far better film.
 
i thought that thats one of the scariest parts of the film. imagine waking up to your son holding a knife that size writing that everywhere and talking asif he's possessed. would scare the cr*p out of me!
 
I didn't get all of The Shining either and I thought maybe the picture had something to do with when Jeeves was saying "You've always been the caretaker", suggesting perhaps that in 1921 all the bad stuff happened and he died and then came back perhaps? I don't know though.
 
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