The Shining Movie Analysis

First and foremost, I'd like to say that Jack probably didn't just go crazy from isolation, but was crazy to begin with. Of course, in the end we find out that he's been crazy all this time and this happens every year with him.

I'd like to do this analysis a different way, if that's okay, Mr Olson. Instead of just writing what I think, I'm gonna write what questions I have, then my predictions as to what the answers are. So, here we go:

1. Was there a time before 1921 that he's done this?

I don't think so, because every one seems to be from that time frame, but I think that's the year that Jack killed all the members of the working force of Overlook, and that's why they are stuck with him forever in the cycle, just like he's stuck there.

2. Does he have different family every year?

I think so. I think the little girls were his as well. Bu they are not real people, they are just remnants of the people he's killed before. But somehow, the movie talks about a year of which he did get out of the cycle and got a real family as a real person instead of a ghost, and that's why they were able to run away and he didn't catch them.

3. Why do the people keep hiring him then to be the caretaker?

They are all in the cycle too. They don't remember that they've seen and hired him before, and does it every year. They are all dead, every one, and the people who go to the hotel are all dead too. Maybe the hotel never existed after 1921, or it was deserted after the killings, so those people had died there too, no real, live people ever comes to the Overlook again. There's this thing in the Darkest Powers series of books by Kelley Armstrong, about a necromancer, Chloe, and she's able to see echos. Not real ghosts, but what happened to the person who died, playing over and over and over again, forever. I think the Overlook hotel is an echo.

4. What about Dick?

He's in the echo too.

5. Why did Jack go crazy?

I think Jack was crazy from the start, but from what has happened, I think, because he's a writer, he did some kind of research on something that was so traumatizing, he went crazy himself. As well, the pressures of being a caretaker might have been too much. Remember, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Which also states that he was probably left out and in constant work ever since he was a kid, and people might have picked on him and such.

6. What does the Shining have to do with any of this?

Well, it's how we see the echo of a story. Otherwise, if Danny didn't have the Shining, we wouldn't know what happened in the Overlook hotel, because everything's an echo, and not every one can see an echo.

7. What's up with Danny and Tony?

I think the shining refers to part necromancer, part schizophrenic. Like Chloe, in the Darkest Powers.

8. Do I want to go and watch the Shinning now?

Oh yeah.

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