“How the hell can you not understand The Shining? It’s pretty basic: a man takes his family to a hotel where they are snowed in all winter and it drives him to the point of insanity. The end. How is that confusing?”

….I’m sorry….but have you seen the movie? It’s not that simple

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   ….wow. Clearly someone was sleeping for 90% of the movie. Like the part where Danny was strangled by the woman in the...

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   “How the hell can you not understand The Shining? It’s pretty basic: a man takes his family to a hotel where they are...

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   Well, the book is different with it’s approach, which involves more supernatural elements that come into play. I can see...

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    The book is actually SO much more complex than the movie. But the movie is not as simple as that person made it out to...

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15. xx-lost-and-insecure-xx reblogged this from horror-movie-confessions and added:

    definitely not that simple..

16. nicee-b said: That movie has so many metaphors it is nuts…like showing the collapse of the nuclear family in the 60s and such. You have to watch it multiple times and still at the end you know that are missing a lot…
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19. m0deniesall said: And I can understand kubrick look at ” The Shining”. In contrast to the the King’s book, Jack Torrance invented ghosts and go to mad.
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    What about the blood? What about the bear? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BOOK? WAS IT GOOD?

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    …Are you serious? There is SO much more going on than some cabin fever. The entire building and grounds are basically...

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30. amber-skies-with-dragons said: I agree. The shining is one of my favorite movie and it is NOT that simple, by far. This movie made me the J.N fan I am today ^_^
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    There’s definitely a lot more to it than that. I wrote a whole paper about The Shining, and the manifestation of evil,...

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34. emilyywhy said: It is NOT simple. But then again, we can’t all be geniuses like that person. So sad.
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36. krisbrass said: It’s really not that simple. Haunted hotel, precog little boy, useless mother. Those are pretty key elements!
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40. squirrelshideout said: Yeah there is this kid named Danny. He figured into the whole thing somehow …
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    That glorious moment when a confessions blog sasses a confession. Also, it really isn’t at simple as that. That is kind...

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48. the-otter-inside-you reblogged this from horror-movie-confessions and added:

    Actually, it is. And I HAVE seen the movie. I still don’t get what’s so complicated with it.

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    It really isn’t. There are ghosts involved.

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