The Shining Film Analysis

The Shining The Shining was originally a horror novel written by Steven King, and later became a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The movie takes place at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado where Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is the winter caretaker with his wife and son, Wendy and Danny (Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd). As an aspiring author trying to cure his writer’s block, dark secrets about the hotel emerge and he begins to go crazy. Throughout the movie, Kubrick gives us hints about the dark secrets through the setting, Danny’s psychic visions, and other motifs. The majority of the movie is set at the Overlook Hotel in rural Colorado. When we first arrive we find out that the