The Shining
The Shining was directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1980. It is considered one of the greatest horror films of all time.Adapted from Stephen King’s novel of the same name, the film mainly tells the story of Jack’s family in the distant look at the hotel during a series of horrific encounters.
The creation of the sense of terror rarely makes use of the unexpected sudden scare, more is a psychological fear brought about by the use of camera language, which is equivalent to the feeling of aftertaste and back row.The techniques used by the director in the film can be called textbook roots.Many films have had an impact since.At the heart of the film’s horror is the concept of danger in a confined space.So in the movie, whether it’s the hotel peak of the snowstorm or the room by room in the hotel, the closed road of the hedge maze, or even the grid on the carpet.
These marketing elements all emphasize the concept of enclosed space over and over again in the minds of the audience.Therefore, the potential danger for the leading role is foreshadowed.And then the second is the color system that underlines the danger by making it difficult to light up the background of the room with reddish objects in many scenes of the film.And the blue and green colds represent the safe environment or mood.The colors of the Imperial City are intermediate.Rooms that look out at hotels can be dangerous, safe or somewhere in between.
It is worth noting that Kubrick does not use isolated and light color symbols because of this implication.It is a kind of preparation, even from the first interior scene in the film.For example, during an interview, the map next to the office is like a grid of many closed Spaces, with red, green, yellow and blue cities.And this one doesn’t look like the one overlooking the hotel.It was arranged by the director because the map was very visible in the shot.
What impressed me most was a red-carpeted corridor in the movie. The author looked at the whole corridor from a child’s low perspective, which made the characters look very small in the scene, and the room next to it naturally gave viewers a sense of oppression. Many pictures on the wall in the film also suggest different dangers to the audience, and its main influence is not in the conscious area but in the unconscious area. When we re-examine the whole film, we will find that many arrangements are consistent, which I think is the subtext used by the director.