Friday, June 28, 2013
The Shining Has Realistic Fears
The film "The Shining" the audience
can relate to the main character's fear of seclusion and having no
one to help them. The audience experiences the suspense felt by the characters.
The Shining gives you the moments where they can feel being chased by Jack
Nicholson. They can feel the pressure of getting away. The tension comes from
the film. Other horror films are a different kind of tension. The audience
member see’s someone being snuck up on but its less scary because they can see
it happening. In this film they feel as if they are being chased as well. There
is no idea of what is to come. The shining gives no hint to it’s ending or
reasoning behind much of the film. Most horror films I have seen give a reason
in the beginning or explain as it goes. The shinning throws the audience into
the middle of the drama, tension and horror. We don’t want Danny to go into
room 237 but that’s only because we know something bad will happen. In real
life there would be nothing holding us back.
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Tess,
ReplyDeleteI think it was different how you talked about not knowing much behind the explanation of the Shining. There are some different parts of this movie that start to make it come together at the end, that maybe Jack has been living for a very long time and haunting this hotel for longer than originally the viewer thinks. We also know that Danny has a special ability called "the shining" and know that room 237 will come back to haunt the individuals. However, when it all comes together, there is so much of the film that is left to the viewers to interpret. Why exactly did Jack go crazy? Is it because this is normally what he does? Is it because he sees people that don't exist? Is it because the winter got to him? We aren't quite sure and that is what causes most of the fear in this film is the sense of not knowing so much.