Week one – Brittney

For our first movie we decided to watch Stephen King’s, The Shining. It is about Jack Torrance and his family’s experience at the Overlook Hotel, while Jack is getting back into writing. Though the trip is off to a rough start when Danny, Jack’s son, begins experiencing visions. These visions continue to get worse and worse and it seems Danny knows the twisted past of the Overlook. As Jack is writing he begins to slowly go insane with the isolation of the Colorado mountains. Jack begins visiting the hotel bar within the gold room. There he meets Lloyd, the bartender. Lloyd is who Jack confides with and goes to from the stress of the new writing project. Eventually out of the stress Jack tries to kill his son and wife just like the past murder that occurred decades ago. The Shining  shows the nature of human beings and how they are creatures of habit yet crave change.