導演：斯坦利?庫布里克
主演：杰克?尼科爾森
國家：美國/英國
類型：驚悚/恐怖
劇情簡介
杰克?托倫斯(杰克?尼科爾森)是一名作家，為了擺脫工作上的失意，他決定接管一家奢華的山間飯店。那是一間座落偏僻，處處露著陰森之氣的大屋，據(jù)說它的前一任管理者曾莫名地喪失了理智，并殺害了他的全家。杰克卻沒有把它當作一回事兒，他只想找一個清幽的地方專心寫作。于是，他不顧朋友丹尼(丹尼?勞埃德)的勸告，和妻子溫蒂(希莉?杜瓦)一起搬了這幢飯店。他們制訂了新的規(guī)矩，杰克還專門設立了一個供自己創(chuàng)作的休息室。然而，詭異漸漸地從平靜的表面浮現(xiàn)出來。杰克開始經(jīng)常出入飯店的酒吧，尋找有關自己的過去，回憶腦海里那些血淋淋的畫面；反常的事情終于無可避免地發(fā)生了…… 他的兒子也因此有了超感應能力，并能夠看到旅館中過去曾發(fā)生的恐怖的殺人事件，并與黑人廚師進行著精神溝通。
推薦理由
這是斯坦利?庫布里克的里程碑作品，色彩明亮，氣氛陰沉，恐怖氣氛潛藏在男主角的性格轉變之中，技術上的成就遠超過一般同類電影的水準。流動的低角度跟拍鏡頭的出色運用，幾個追殺與逃跑場景中精巧的蒙太奇手法，從樓梯上涌出的洪水般的鮮血，時隱時現(xiàn)的女孩，處處表現(xiàn)出卓越的戲劇張力。看此片如同一場顛簸離奇的旅行，進入一個小說家瘋狂的內(nèi)心世界。影片并不以血腥的鏡頭取勝，而是挖掘內(nèi)心深處的恐怖，那圍繞在旅店四周沉重怪誕的寂靜使人頗有患了幽閉恐怖癥般的迷惘悵然。
Plot summary
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Though it had mixed reviews from the critics upon its release it was wildly popular with moviegoers and financially successful. It is now frequently ranked as one of the best horror films as well as one of the greatest films in history and its iconic and surreal imagery is deeply embedded throughout popular culture, although there was a long interval between its release and its achievement of iconic status. Director Stanley Kubrick co-wrote the screenplay with novelist Diane Johnson. The film stars Jack Nicholson as tormented writer Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as his wife Wendy, and Danny Lloyd as their son, Danny.
The film tells the story of a writer, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), who accepts the job of the winter caretaker at a hotel that always gets snowed in during the winter. While his family looks around the hotel during the day the hotel staff leave, Danny's psychic abilities, or "shining," are discovered by the hotel chef. The shining is the ability to see things in the future or past, such as the ghosts of murdered people in the hotel. When the hotel becomes snowbound, Jack Torrance trades his soul for a drink and, on the advice of a ghostly butler who did the same, tries to murder his wife and son.
Initial response to the film was mixed and it performed moderately at the box office. Subsequent critical assessment of the film has been more favorable and it is now viewed as a classic of the horror genre. The novel's author Stephen King had very conflicted feelings about it (see Reception and Comparison with the book) which had oscillated over time. A TV mini-series adaptation of the novel broadcast in 1997 saw King more actively involved.
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the Overlook Hotel for a job interview. Manager Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson) warns him that a previous caretaker got cabin fever and killed his family and himself during the long winter in which the hotel is entirely isolated. The hotel itself is built on the site of an Indian burial ground. Jack’s son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), has ESP and has had terrifying premonitions about the hotel. Jack's wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), tells a visiting doctor about Danny's imaginary friend "Tony" and that Jack had given up drinking because he had physically abused Danny after a binge.
The family arrives at the hotel on closing day and is given a tour. The elderly African-American chef Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) surprises Danny by speaking to him telepathically and offering him some ice cream. He explains to Danny that he and his grandmother shared the gift; they called the communication "shining." Danny asks if there is anything to be afraid of in the hotel, particularly Room 237. Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel has a certain "shine" to it and many memories, not all of them good and advises him to stay out of room 237 under all circumstances.
A month passes and Jack's writing project is going nowhere. Meanwhile, Danny and Wendy have fun and go in the hotel's hedge maze, which Jack finds a model of it in the Cold room revealing Wendy and Danny in it. Wendy is concerned about the phone lines being out due to the snow storm and Danny has more frightening visions. Danny’s curiosity about Room 237 finally gets the better of him when he sees the room has been opened. Later, Danny shows up injured and visibly traumatized causing Wendy to think that Jack has been abusing Danny. Jack wanders into the hotel’s Gold Room where he meets a ghostly bartender named Lloyd (Joe Turkel) who serves him whiskey. Jack complains to the bartender about his relationship with Wendy. Afterward, Wendy shows up and apologizes for accusing Jack, explaining that Danny told her a "crazy woman in one of the rooms" was responsible for his injuries. Jack investigates Room 237 and has an encounter with the ghost of a dead woman there, but tells Wendy he saw nothing. Wendy and Jack argue about whether Danny should be removed from the hotel and Jack returns to the Gold Room, now filled with ghosts having a costume party. Here he meets who he believes is the ghost of the previous caretaker Delbert Grady (Philip Stone) who tells Jack that he has to "correct" his wife and child. Later, Jack sabotages the hotel radio, cutting off communication from the outside world.
Meanwhile, in Florida, Dick Hallorann gets a premonition that something is wrong at the hotel and takes a flight back to Colorado to investigate. Danny starts calling out the word "redrum" frantically and goes into a trance now calling himself "Tony". Wendy discovers Jack's typewriter and that he has been typing endless pages of manuscript repeating "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" formatted in various ways. Horrified, she confronts Jack, but he threatens her before she knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat and locks him in a kitchen pantry. Jack converses with Grady through the door of the locker, which then unlocks, releasing him.
Danny has written "REDRUM" in lipstick on the door of Wendy’s bedroom revealing itself in the mirror to be "murder" spelled backwards. At that moment, Jack, armed with a fire axe, begins to chop through the door leading to his family's living quarters. In a frantic maneuver, Wendy sends Danny out through the bathroom window but she is unable to fit through the window herself. Jack then starts chopping the bathroom door down with the axe and leers through the hole he has made, shouting the now iconic "Here's Johnny!" line, but backs off after he hears a running engine from Halloran's snowcat outside. Jack leaves the room and begins to wander about the hotel to find Halloran and kills him just moments after his arrival. Jack then begins to pursue Danny and is led into the hedge maze. Jack follows Danny's footsteps, but is misled when Danny manages to walk backwards in his own tracks and leaps behind a corner, covering his tracks with snow. Wendy and Danny escape in Hallorann's vehicle while Jack slowly freezes to death in the hedge maze.
The photograph on the hotel wall: Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1921. A young Jack stands smiling in the bottom center.The final shot of the film is of an old photograph taken at the hotel on July 4, 1921 in which Jack Torrance is clearly visible while Midnight, the Stars and You is being played through the hallways.
(Source: wikipedia.org，英語點津Julie編輯）
