The Shining: The evils that come from underachievement

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:03][laughter and clears throat] >> Here's Johnny.

[00:00:09]>> Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining is one of the most heralded yet over-analyzed pieces of media in psychological horror, but with good reason to be honest and with many theories and interpretations which include the genocide of Native Americans, hints to the Holocaust, and even Stanley Kubrick supposedly confessing to faking the moon landing.

[00:00:31]Several videos on this platform discussed those theories and yes, I do know that Kubrick's adaptation of King's work is not what King liked. As a matter of fact, Stephen King absolutely hated the film. I mean, he even hated it so much that he decided to remake it based on his own work down to the T, of course being a mini series form. But, ask any moviegoer, ask anybody who consumed media that's consumed both products, and you ask them which version they would prefer, they'll tell you that they prefer Kubrick's.

[00:01:02]However, for some reason the story or plot of The Shining, that of course being Kubrick's version, always gets overlooked in favor of those theories.

[00:01:11]So, what is this film really about? I mean, I guess you could just ask Diane Johnson. I mean, she wrote Kubrick's adaptation of the film.

[00:01:19]>> underlying story of a father's hate for his child and his wife, the murderous father.

[00:01:26]>> But, why? Why did Jack hate his family?

[00:01:29]That's the topic that we're going to be discussing in this video essay, the evils that come from underachievement and unhappiness or good old-fashioned unsatisfaction.

[00:01:38]And now with all that out of the way, let's talk about The Shining.

[00:01:43]We're going to be focusing mostly on Jack. Don't worry, the overlooked Wendy and Danny, they will get their due over the course of this video and may even get their own separate videos, but just to kind of like go over what I mean by this. We'll take Danny [music] for example. Danny is a character that obviously is integral to the story of this film, [music] but I think that Danny is best discussed in his ability to shine needs to be discussed in [music] more detail when we talk about the film Doctor Sleep, which I think does a much much better job of explaining his situation.

[00:02:17]It definitely makes his character make a whole hell of a lot more sense. And of course, he will get his due in this video, but not to the same degree as Jack.

[00:02:27]But the video will go like this. A very quick plot explanation, not a breakdown or explanation, but remember spoilers. I advise you guys go check out the film, especially if you've not seen it. A look at Jack's situation in detail, which includes the disdain for his family, his situation in his life, and of course also how the isolation in the Overlook Hotel with the spirits that prey on Jack and expose the darkness within him, but also why people feel he was evil all along.

[00:02:57]The story is basically aspiring writer Jack Torrance who accepts a job as the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter, and even after being warned to the isolation and even a previous caretaker who had killed his family >> Uh my predecessor in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker. And he came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think about 8 and 10. And he had a good employment record, good references, and from what I've been told, I mean, he seemed like a completely normal individual.

[00:03:29]But at some point during the winter, he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown. He ran amok and uh killed his family with an axe.

[00:03:43]>> Even after hearing all this, he still chooses to accept the job, and of course brings his wife Wendy and his son Danny along with him to the Overlook. And it's here where our story begins.

[00:03:54]But, the thing about this film is it comes down to two quotes from Stanley Kubrick himself. So, let's go over those two quotes. Number one, the film is about a family quietly going insane together.

[00:04:07]And of course, there's also this other quote when it comes to the main character, Jack Torrance. Now, real quick, Jack Torrance in the Stephen King version was more of a tragic figure.

[00:04:18]Yes, he had his faults, but uh it was more of a situation where he was a man trying to fix his life and even be good, but the hotel got him. Where in the case of Jack Torrance, the Kubrick version, as Kubrick states, Jack comes to the hotel psychologically prepared to do its murderous bidding. And he doesn't have very much further to go for which anger and frustration to become completely uncontrollable. He is bitter about his failure as a writer. He is married to a woman for whom he only has contempt. He hates his son. And the hotel, at the mercy of its powerful uh evil, he is quickly ready to fulfill its dark role.

[00:04:55]Or his own dark role, if you may.

[00:04:59]This becomes apparent when Jack encounters the ghost of Grady in the bathroom of the ballroom. Of course, it's not to be set up like he's a ghost, but Kubrick also basically said a little bit later on as you go further to the film and try to get an explanation of what's going on. Like for example, uh when Grady uh unlocks the meat locker for Jack after Wendy stuffed Jack in there, that there's not really any additional explanation outside of the fact that it is the supernatural.

[00:05:25]Still, that being said, the question then becomes, well, what would the hotel do to somebody if they did not have the kind of flaws that Jack uh has? That would there of course be in that Jack, there's several hints of a possible abuse that we'll talk about a little bit later on. And of course, also Jack's alcoholism, which of course he has uh quit for the previous five or six months before getting to the hotel itself, but still it makes you wonder exactly how crazy with the isolation that the hotel would make any body with a lot less flaws get. It's always about the to what extent. Still at the same time, the hotel for the most part serves as the thing that sort of helps unlock and open up the darkness within Jack.

[00:06:05]And that is sort of always been the theory when it comes to the story itself in relation to the Overlook Hotel.

[00:06:11]But going back to Stephen King, Stephen King wrote The Shining with the thought in his mind of I could actually hurt my kids.

[00:06:21]It was a fear that Stephen King had.

[00:06:23]It's actually a fear that just about every single parent has, but still that's what Stephen King was trying to go for when writing the story. It's one of the reasons why he did not like Kubrick's version his adaptation is because the portrayal of Jack Torrance. Jack, as I said before, was more of a tragic figure in the book where it is in the film. He's a little bit more open-minded to the possibility of a unlocking that darkness.

[00:06:46]And Kubrick shows you these red flags from the very start. Number one, it's pretty obvious that he does not like his family, especially Wendy. You can see that with the facial expressions. Of course, you can also tell that he's annoyed by Danny as well as you guys see in these clips.

[00:07:00]>> Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

[00:07:06]>> See?

[00:07:07]It's okay.

[00:07:09]He saw it on the television.

[00:07:12]>> It's just a matter of settling back into the habit of writing every day.

[00:07:18]>> That's all it is.

[00:07:21]>> There's also the alcohol abuse and also [music] this little bit that Wendy gave us at the beginning of the film.

[00:07:27]>> My husband had uh been drinking and he came home about 3 hours late.

[00:07:34]So, he wasn't exactly in the greatest mood that night.

[00:07:39]And well, Danny had scattered some of his papers all over the room and my husband grabbed his arm, you know, to pull him away from him.

[00:07:49]It's It's just a sort of thing you do a hundred times with a child in the park or in the streets.

[00:07:54]>> There is an abusive nature to Jack. And as I said before, there's obviously a type of annoyance and unsatisfaction that he has with his family and even a pretty strong amount of underachievement, which Kubrick had spoken about when he said talked about Jack's failures in that before-mentioned quote. But before we really dig into Jack's descent into madness, let's talk about Wendy for a second as far as Wendy's relationship with Jack.

[00:08:24]>> Well, it's very uh homey.

[00:08:29]>> So, with Wendy, you're getting a girl who is for the most part good-natured.

[00:08:33]Okay, let's just take a look at this really quick. She takes care of Danny, spends time with him. She also, while at the hotel, checks the boiler, does the bulk of the housework. She's for the most part is a pretty solid homemaker.

[00:08:44]And of course, she also cooks and even brings Jack uh breakfast in bed.

[00:08:50]Now, there's a lot about this particular bit that we could talk about and I even showed you guys a clip earlier of Jack's facial expressions and why it is that he is for the most part annoyed by Wendy and even her presence. I mean, I think the typewriter scene does the best job of showing you exactly how annoyed he is with Wendy.

[00:09:11]>> Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration.

[00:09:15]You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was.

[00:09:20]Understand?

[00:09:24]>> Yeah.

[00:09:25]>> All right.

[00:09:28]And we're going to make a new rule.

[00:09:30]Whenever I'm in here, you hear me typing, whether you don't hear me typing, whatever the fuck do you hear me doing in here when I'm in here? That means that I am working. That means don't come in.

[00:09:43]How do you think you can handle that?

[00:09:48]>> Yeah.

[00:09:50]>> Fine.

[00:09:52]Why don't you start right now and get the fuck out of here?

[00:09:59]>> All she was doing was just coming downstairs to check on you. I mean, I think you could have handled that a little bit differently, but obviously this right here is a movie, and of course if you don't have this scene, then obviously you don't have the story.

[00:10:09]The point is Jack is annoyed with her for whatever reason. Uh you get the impression that not only does he have contempt for her as in that maybe he might regret marrying her, but you also look at the situation with him a little bit closer, and you actually also see some other things that we'll touch on here in a moment uh about Jack himself and the possibility that maybe he may not have fully grown up.

[00:10:33]But more on that minute. The two are oil and water. Jack is not good-natured.

[00:10:38]Wendy obviously is. And there's also something that I want to kind of bring like it's to a certain degree somewhat obvious, but when Jack goes in the room 237, you get that lady that gets out of the bathtub, and you think to yourself, "Wow, this right here is a This woman is a praying on what Jack lusts." This right here is a beautiful young girl, and then all of a sudden she turns into a decaying old woman.

[00:11:01]Before she fully decayed and became the monstrous being that she uh is, Jack was quite frankly enamored. Almost as if to say that this right here is what he'd always been wanting. A man satisfied with his marriage wouldn't have that look.

[00:11:16]More times than not when approached with a woman or a situation like this, a man who's actually understands his vows would actually just leave or just get the hell out of there. Still, it kind of hints at the fact that Jack is unsatisfied with his marriage. There's also other moments, but then we get to the scene where Jack just lets all of his frustrations out at Wendy inside the bedroom.

[00:11:41]>> It is so fucking typical of you to create a problem like this when I finally have a chance to accomplish something.

[00:11:48]When I am really into my work.

[00:11:51]I could really write my own ticket if I went back to Boulder now, couldn't I?

[00:11:55]Shoveling out driveways, working at a car wash. You got to be kidding you.

[00:12:00]>> Jack.

[00:12:01]>> Wendy.

[00:12:02]I have let you fuck up my life so far, but I am not going to let you fuck this up.

[00:12:09]>> There's obviously some stuff left out, but shoveling driveways, working at a car wash to go along with his job as a teacher seems to me like he feels that he's underachieving in life. He also thinks that Wendy might even be reveling to a certain degree, when this is by no means not the case.

[00:12:24]His trip to the hotel bar was his attempt to vent his frustrations out in one way or another, which he ultimately does. But his second trip, where he goes to the ballroom, is actually him reveling in what he feels is a life better than his, or at least in that moment. I mean, his drinks were on the house.

[00:12:40]>> Your money's no good [music] here.

[00:12:43]>> I [singing] know.

[00:12:45]>> Something that Jack is definitely not used to, especially given the fact that his response to that was, "I want to know who it is that's actually paying for my drinks." The little dance inside the ballroom before he runs into Grady is sort of an indication that Jack, of course, he is obviously living in the moment. There is still some kind of desire to maybe get out and cut loose and party a little bit. You also get the hint that he feels like he should be living a life, an easier life, which of course he doesn't hesitate at the opportunity to go into the isolation to work on his book, of which by the way, he's obviously bored, he's obviously frustrated. He sees Danny and Wendy out there in the maze. He sees them having fun, and there's There's certain part of him that's kind of annoyed by this.

[00:13:28]But, speaking about Jack working on this book, I think it's here where we get the real answer to Jack's problems. So, let's talk about that. And shout out to What is Anti-Logic once again for pointing something out that I think a lot of people may have missed. And of course, after rewatching the film for 30th time, I finally saw it. And of course, I'll be linking the video in the description box. And no, the thing that I saw that he saw was not Wendy reading the book Catcher in the Rye. Don't worry, we will come back to that a little bit later.

[00:14:01]But, this.

[00:14:12]I only played it once, and it wasn't very long. But, I'm playing it for you guys right in the B-roll footage. Now, I had to steal this right from What is Anti-Logic, but I'd actually called this when I was rewatching the film. And you see it. There's three separate little bits there where it says, "All work and no play make Jack not a dull boy, but an adult boy."

[00:14:32]So, is Jack trying to tell you that he's a bit of a man-child?

[00:14:36]I mean, at first I wouldn't think much of it. But, then I go back to the beginning of the the film, and I see Wendy reading the book Catcher in the Rye, which is actually a book about a teenage boy not wanting to grow up. And it makes it makes a lot more sense that Jack is probably just a man that doesn't really want to grow up when he hasn't fully sown his wild oats. Hits the fact that he still desires going out and getting a drink from time to time. By the way, uh if you read King's novel, you find out that Jack goes to the bar a lot. Not so much drinking inside of his own house, but goes to the bar to get liquored up and then comes home. I mean, you could even argue that the ballroom is Jack sort of revisiting those old bachelor days before he met Wendy and had Danny.

[00:15:22]There's one more thing that I want to add before we move on to The Overlook Hotel and Danny and it's this. In the book, Jack Torrance's character is a man who's probably in like his early to mid 30s.

[00:15:33]Where in Kubrick's adaptation, you get the feeling that Jack Torrance is closer to the age of what Jack Nicholson was at the time of filming.

[00:15:42]Which was 42 years old and Shelley Duvall was 30 going on 31 at the time of filming this particular picture and not trying to say that the age gap's a problem or anything, but I think it sort of indicates more the man-child, the person who's not fully grown up, who still has a little bit of his wild oats in him.

[00:16:01]And some have even theorized that the blood that comes out the elevator, the blood that Danny sees in his visions, that uh Wendy sees at the very end, is not really blood, but actually wine. And I kind of see the case to a certain degree, but you guys tell me in the comments section what you think. Now, let's move on to Danny and his relationship with Jack and then the Overlook Hotel and close down the video.

[00:16:26]>> I think we should discuss Danny.

[00:16:33]I think we should discuss what should be done.

[00:16:43]What should be done with him?

[00:16:46]>> The abuse elements are heavily hinted at if not stated outright, but before we fully dive into Danny and his ability to shine, let's hear Jack's side of the story when it came to him jerking Danny up and dislocating his shoulder.

[00:17:00]>> I love the little son of a bitch.

[00:17:04]I didn't hurt him once, okay?

[00:17:07]It was an accident.

[00:17:09]Completely unintentional.

[00:17:13]Could have happened to anybody.

[00:17:17]It was three goddamn years ago.

[00:17:21]The little fucker had thrown all my papers all over the floor. All I tried to do was pull them up.

[00:17:27]>> Once again, a story like this was at the very heart of the actual story itself.

[00:17:33]Stephen King talked about how it is that he could find himself or see himself possibly injuring one of his kids, and that was something that scared the little hell out of him. I mean, the only other time that I've actually seen something like this in any type of film was in the movie Seven.

[00:17:48]>> It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it.

[00:17:51]>> How?

[00:17:51]>> Love costs. Takes effort and work.

[00:17:54]>> And of course, that scene there goes on to talk about how it is, like, you know, what is actually real life. This right here is the type of stuff that parents [clears throat] deal with all the time, and you've got to learn to keep your emotions in check. But, Jack is somebody who has a lot of darkness within him, and that's what the hotel is doing. It's It's unlocking the darkness within him fully.

[00:18:12]And there's other moments, of course, where you just get this feeling of unease when it comes to the relationship between Jack and Danny. But, it's really the conversation that he has with Grady, where you kind of see exactly how open Jack is to massacring his family.

[00:18:30]>> He is a very willful boy.

[00:18:35]>> Indeed, he is, Mr. Torrance.

[00:18:38]A very willful boy.

[00:18:41]A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold.

[00:18:48]>> I know we're getting a little bit clip heavy, but this right here is where I want to address Danny at. So, I said before that in the case of Danny and his ability to shine, and of course, also Hallorann, who as you guys can obviously tell if you've seen the film, obviously has this exact same gift, I wanted to discuss that much, much further in detail in a video on Doctor Sleep, because obviously The Shining is very, very much a part of that film, too. But, still the thing is this Danny's ability to shine for the most part is quite raw and unrefined. When I first saw the film and even watching it as a young adult and then watching it as an adult because the first time I saw this movie I think was like seven or eight years old on the USA network, but still as many times I saw this film, I've always thought the shining was something that Danny was blessed with that was designed to help him save him and his mother from Jack.

[00:19:39]And still to go on top of that as far as where a lot of people love to look at Kubrick and his quotes especially in his interview with Michael So Mant which will be in the description box where he basically says it you know at least three or four times within that interview that you're left saying to yourself that it was really and truly something supernatural. That's the only explanation that you could have for this actual film, but still at the same time Danny's ability to shine and of course also everything else around this particular picture still lends credence to all those theories.

[00:20:10]But of those theories and of course you can watch the documentary Room 237 which I honestly think is just a bunch of people just giving their interpretations after getting drunk for a night which is very interesting too given the fact that alcohol is once again the thing that is part of Jack's struggles and let's just be realistic about things.

[00:20:31]Drunk words are sober man's thoughts.

[00:20:34]Still about those theories and there are many theories that this film has generated. Whether it be the Wendy theory or the Danny theory or faking the moon landing or the Holocaust, there's really only two of these theories that have ever really stuck with me. One of them of course is the Native American genocide theory.

[00:20:52]>> When was the Overlook built?

[00:20:54]>> Uh construction started in 1907.

[00:20:58]It was finished in 1909.

[00:21:00]The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building. One by one.

[00:21:10]White man's burden, Lloyd, my man. White man's burden.

[00:21:15]>> I even decided to throw that little bit about white man's burden in there, but still there's cans of Calumet all over the hotel, and I want to just throw this out here. Calumet means peace pipe, which sort of signals the fact that it's about those broken peace treaties that whites and settlers had with or the US government had with natives.

[00:21:37]Still, when you look deeper into Calumet, you find out that Calumet was a pretty popular name brand, especially on that side of the country, and of course this film is supposed to be set in Colorado, even though the hotel itself is actually in Mount Hood, Oregon. But still, Calumet's not exactly an uncommon name. I mean, it was even the name of the town for the basis of the film Red Dawn.

[00:22:02]>> So, that's what hit Calumet.

[00:22:03]>> So, the genocide of the Native Americans theory has always somewhat stuck with me, and of course, going back to the blood that can you can argue is wine, I see where it is that people kind of stick to that one. However, there is one more theory that I've always tended to lend credence to, except the problem with this theory is that uh >> [sighs] >> Julie Kearns, uh she decided to use the wrong uh thing to try to get her particular theory out there. So, let's talk about it real quick.

[00:22:33]Julie Kearns' interpretation is that it's an allegory for the myth of the minotaur, and this right here would have credence uh as I'll explain here in a second. The problem is is that she chooses to focus in on that poster that you see at the very beginning of the film, saying that this girl looks like a bit of a monster, when in reality it's just somebody skiing.

[00:22:54]Um chalk it up to them uh watching this film on VHS back in the early [music] 1980s, and of course we have DVD now, which is a little bit better, a little bit more clearer. However, she also tends to look at the floor plan and the way the Overlook is laid out as some type of labyrinth, when in reality the thing that's the labyrinth is actually the maze. The maze, of course, being [music] sort of a labyrinth, which was not in the book. And of course, you could also look at Jack and say, "Well, he's the minotaur, Danny is Theseus, and of course, Wendy is as Ariadne, who showed Danny how to navigate the maze earlier in the film."

[00:23:28]And of course, there is Jack there looking at the actual maze, but still you get the impression that this could very could in fact be an allegory for that. The problem, as I said before, is that Gillie Carrant chose to use the floor plan of the hotel itself, and of course, also that photo, that poster.

[00:23:48]But then you get to this other interpretation that I want to entertain momentarily before we close down the video. And that right there, of course, is the fact that many of the people working on this film looked at this film as a type of fairy tale. And that could lend some credence if you look at it from a different angle. Uh instead of looking at it as a fairy tale from the protagonist's or the hero's point of view, look at it more from the villain's point of view. I mean, Jack even decides to go full Three Little [music] Pigs before uh tearing down the bathroom.

[00:24:20]>> Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in.

[00:24:30]Not by the hair on your chinny chin chin.

[00:24:35]Then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.

[00:24:43]>> You're designed in this film to somewhat empathize with the villain of the story.

[00:24:48]And of course, that villain is Jack. He is the beast, of course. And of course, if you go back and you look at everything that happens right before he dies, you do get that uh beast-like holler right before he freezes to death.

[00:25:07]But, those right there are just my thoughts, which brings us to the Overlook and Jack, and of course, also the ultimate theme of this video. How it is that the hotel is preying on Jack's failures, his unsatisfaction to bring this darkness out, his underachievements.

[00:25:25]>> ever thought about my responsibilities?

[00:25:27]>> Jack, what are you talking about?

[00:25:29]>> Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought FOR A SINGLE SOLITARY MOMENT ABOUT MY RESPONSIBILITIES TO MY EMPLOYERS?

[00:25:40]>> IN this sequence, in this argument between, well, it's really just Jack blowing up on Wendy, the thing is this here. If you pay attention to Jack Nicholson's face, you pay attention to his body movements, it's almost in a lot of ways what I've been saying this whole time about him being a man-child. I mean, even these little bits here which we laugh at are more and more indications that Jack is very, very much a immature man.

[00:26:04]>> Maybe he should be taken to a doctor.

[00:26:07]>> You think maybe he should be taken to a doctor?

[00:26:12]When do you think maybe he should be taken to a doctor?

[00:26:17]>> As soon as possible.

[00:26:18]>> As soon as possible. You've had your whole fucking life to think things over.

[00:26:24]What good's it going to do you now?

[00:26:28]>> Don't hurt me.

[00:26:29]Please.

[00:26:32]Don't hurt me.

[00:26:33]>> I'm not going to hurt you.

[00:26:34]>> Stay away from >> Wendy.

[00:26:36]>> Stay away.

[00:26:37]>> Darling.

[00:26:38]Light of my life.

[00:26:40]I'm not going to hurt you.

[00:26:42]You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, "I'm not going to hurt you."

[00:26:46]I'm just going to bash your brains I'm going to bash them right the fuck in.

[00:26:53]>> Stay away from Bring me the bat.

[00:26:57]Put the bat down, Wendy.

[00:27:00]Wendy, give me the bat.

[00:27:05]Give me the bat.

[00:27:07]>> I sped all that up, and of course you guys are seeing Wendy just completely [music] and totally just knock Jack the hell out, but of course you take a look at his facial expressions here when he's doing the whole Wendy, Wendy, bit. And you just kind of come away with this and you think to yourself, maybe this is just his nature, but I think it's really more given the fact that he's actually a teacher and he's around kids most of the time. We're not really given much information, but the fact that he's a teacher should tell you that everybody around him is much, much younger. He's obviously adopting probably childish behaviors from them to utilize on her. Still, it's this type of stuff here that the hotel picks up on and chooses to use for its overall end game, which of course is the uh murder of an entire family. I mean, going back to Jack Nicholson's facial expressions, I'm just letting you guys see it right here in the B-roll footage. Just look at how his face turns here while he's stuck inside the meat room.

[00:27:57]I mean, this is just a it's it's just crazy. And I understand it's just great acting from Jack Nicholson, but still it's really in a lot of ways quite telling exactly what Jack's real issues are and how it is that the hotel is picking him apart. It's utilizing that unsatisfied life of his. It's utilizing not just that, but also the underachievements.

[00:28:15]>> [music] >> I mean, go back to him saying uh my commitments to my employers. You know, go back to that whole sequence. As far as he is not a man who just goes to work. As far as he is a man who's trying, and I mean over trying because he's got [music] to overcompensate for something. And I think that thing he's trying to overcompensate for is of course the underachievements of his life.

[00:28:33]And sadly, Wendy and Danny are a great target [music] or a great punching bag for him to uh unleash all of his anger onto, and the hotel knows this.

[00:28:45]Now, some have come to the conclusion that Jack doesn't really know what's going on because of the scene [music] involving Danny, and of course that scene right there before Jack fully just completely goes off the deep end.

[00:28:58]This part is sort of uh the Let's just say this part is kind of the excuse to say, "Okay, well, he didn't know. Maybe he was getting overtaken, and he's not willfully being overtaken." But, I think that the scene before the scene that you guys have seen right in the b-roll footage when the two were in the bedroom, I think this part has all the indications in the world that there was a lot of dark stuff within Jack, and it was finally starting to pick up. It was finally starting to boil in him. And while he may tell Wendy that he does not remember uh what happened, I think this part could very, very well be an excuse. I mean, go back to the scene at the bar where he's talking to Lloyd, and he says, "This right here" before he fully vents everything out.

[00:29:39]>> That bitch.

[00:29:42]As long as I live, she'll never let me forget what happened.

[00:29:55]>> Now, there is one more thing to say about this. And while it's understandable to vent about frustrations, and I need to say this real quick, venting is not holding yourself accountable.

[00:30:06]In the book, Jack Torrance actually holds himself to account. I'm not going to go fully into that, but I am going to link some excerpts to explain that in the description box. But, the thing is this part The difference is that in the book, Jack Torrance uh he knows what he did. He accepts what he did. He doesn't really, how do I say, beat himself up over it. He just decides to move forward to try to fix in himself. Where in this case, Jack's got a lot of self-loathing, and that self-loathing comes from exactly what I've been saying in the entire video. Once again, sounds redundant, but the unsatisfaction, the underachievements, and of course to go on top of that, the disdain for both his wife and his child.

[00:30:42]The thing that has always gotten me about this is that Jack is supposed to come off as somewhat empathetic in this story, but the thing about Jack is like I said before, lots of darkness and it doesn't sound to me like a man who wants to hold himself accountable or try to fix himself. It sounds more like a man who's just pissed off that it happened and that Wendy still kind of holds this over him to a certain degree.

[00:31:05]Trust is very hard to gain back and I think that Jack is having a hard time accepting [music] this, but gaining back trust after you've lost it is a part of growing up, which is something that I don't think Jack has fully done, but moving forward.

[00:31:18]Even at the beginning of the film, he treats the phone call home as I say, it's almost like a job even though the film, the story has given you every single bit of indication that Wendy for the most part is a good-natured person. She seems to me like somebody who understands her job, her role and as I said before, she's quite freaking good-natured, but of course the two are in fact all in water and the hotel is taking advantage of all the darkness within him. I know that sounds redundant at this point and that right there is what's happening is that the hotel is taking advantage of the problems in Jack's life, which we already discussed. But there is one more thing that I do want to say before I close this video out and that right there of course is the end.

[00:31:59]There's been several opinions and several interpretations about the end of the film and I think what's going on here. If you look at how Jack died, you notice that he's frozen as if to say that >> [music] >> someday that spirit is going to be thawed out and when it's thawed out, it's going to inhabit the hotel again and it could very well take out another person who has problems similar to Jack, the same types of issues. We didn't really get a whole lot of information on Delbert Grady, but I keep thinking to myself the way he kept on saying, "I had to correct them." It seems [music] to me like that right there was him saying that maybe he was dealing with a family that they contempt for him and he chose to actually uh correct them, as he said. Where in Jack's [music] case, he has absolute contempt for his family. It makes you wonder what the next family is going to go through, and yes, I do believe that Jack, for the most part, is just another spirit that's a part [music] of the hotel itself. It just so happens to it decided to inhabit another man's body, that of course being Jack Torrance's.

[00:32:59]But like I said, guys, these were here just [music] my thoughts. You guys tell me in the comments section. The Shining is, as I said before at the beginning of the video, one of the most over-analyzed films [music] in existence. But it is fun to analyze it, I'm not going to lie.

[00:33:11]But you guys tell me what you think.

[00:33:12]These were here just my [music] thoughts. I'd love to hear what you guys have got to say. If you guys can, please hit the like button on the way out the door, [music] so that way this video will get out in the algorithm. Also, like I said before, please leave a comment. I'd love to get you guys' thoughts on that. And once again, thank you guys [music] for watching, and I'll see you guys later.

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