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😏 a 5 ans aujourd'hui !

#tumblr birthday #tumblr milestone

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Fact.

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Au parc de la Tourse.

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True.

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Tout ce que je veux c'est prendre un bain et m'évader.

“It hurts because it mattered.” -John Green

🎨Credit: superphazed

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Ce sur quoi je dois travailler.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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Literally!

I love Dramione to death. Sorry Not Sorry.

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♡

House Pride + empowering quote: House Slytherin “ falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible”

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😇😇😇😇😇

il y a quelques jours j’ai sauvé un petit chat qui était perdu sur un toit

il appelait au secours alors j’ai pas pu résister et je suis montée très haut sur une échelle, puis j’étais en équilibre sur un toit penché et glissant avec dans une main un bol de lait et de l’autre j’essayais de l’attraper par le collier

il avait très très peur alors avant de redescendre je l’ai pris dans mes bras et il s’est calmé tout doucement

ensuite il a passé l’après midi à dormir sur mon lit en ronronnant avant que son papa ne vienne le chercher

mon petit appartement fait très vide maintenant, un petit être ça ajoute de la chaleur et de l’amour partout

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Un film culte, a voir et revoir.

Kubrick, s’il vous plaît ! Un chef-d’œuvre !

The Shining (1980)

Dir. Stanley Kubrick

The whole movie goes by and I think “Oh, I get what’s happening in this story. I know what it all means”. Then the final shot happens and I’m left feeling like an idiot. I’m confused, but I think that’s the greatest accomplishment of this film that has so many achievements.

A main theme of the film is of confusion and the descent into insanity for Jack Torrance. The last frame of The Shining reinforces that idea for the audience, making you feel lost. Jack has brought his wife and young son up into the mountains of Colorado for the winter because he got hired to be the overseer of the Overlook hotel. A hotel with a history of shady deaths, supposedly due to the hysteria brought on by the isolation.

I think that Stanley Kubrick’s detailedness in this film as well as his concerted effort to puzzle the viewer in the way he shoots the scenes and lays out the story, has invited the crazy analysis of The Shining over the years. Especially in documentarys like Room 237 that connect this film to being about the Holocaust or Kubrick’s admission to faking the Apollo moon landing. The over analysis is probably a compliment to Kubrick, because how layered his movies are. Not all the crazy theories about The Shining’s meaning are all that crazy though in my opinion.

While watching the movie I thought that the subtext was that the reason shady shit always happens in the Overlook Hotel is because it’s built on an Indian burial ground. All the madness that creeps into the caretakers of the hotel could be explained by a curse left by the massacred Native Americans. When the manager of the Overlook, Mr. Ullman, is giving the Torrances a tour he states that it’s built on the burial ground. Then later when Jack is at the bar letting out his dark thoughts to the bartender Lloyd, he says the phrase “White man’s burden” just before taking a sip of whiskey. Just the sound of that line gave me a sense that it was a hint, but I looked it up.

Supposedly ‘The White Man’s Burden’ was a poem written in 1899 by a British novelist named Rudyard Kipling. In it he’s warning the white American imperialist that he will get a lot of hate and flack for basically conquering non-white people’s lands, but they must push through it because the non-White, “Half devil and half child” men need to be ‘civilized’. I mean… that’s awful. It’s also I think a powerful hint towards the underlying message and reason for all the derangement at the lodge. Men like Jack who stay and run the Overlook symbolize those who were complicit in the crusade against the Native Americans. Then there is a scene later in the movie but in the same ballroom where Jack walks into a vision of a 1920s style party. The 1920s were the height of White America’s self righteousness. When the business/rich class was able to run rough shot over the entire population, causing an economic collapse and the Great Depression. The fact that they represent the type of people who stay in the Overlook (or in another interpretation, get killed because of the curse and have to live eternally there) has to mean something. And I think it supports my interpretation. There are enough pieces of evidence that support this theory that I feel it’s valid enough to be considered.

I can see many other themes in the film as well that may point to other interpretations. Alcoholism and domestic violence. Insanity through isolation. Patriarchy … I don’t know actually. I’m not that smart. Alls I know is this film is a classic for a reason. Cinematography wise, it’s unique and disturbing. And it’s a must see for those who appreciate acting performances. All three of the Torrances put in work.

Rating: 10/10