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Chapter 1: Job Interview. The first winter caretaker, Ullman tells Jack, was a man named Grady , and he was a total drunk. Jack interrupts Ullman and tells him that he no Chapter 3: Watson. Jack interrupts Watson and asks about Grady , the first winter caretaker. Watson nods. Grady was a bad guy, he says. A ranger from the National Park found them. Chapter Conversations at the Party. Jack asks the man what his name is, and he answers Grady.
Jack asks if he is the caretaker, but Grady is confused. Jack is the caretaker, Jack mentions Ullman, but Grady corrects him. Not Ullman. The hotel. Wendy and Danny reunite and leave the hotel in a snowcat, and Jack freezes to death.
What happens to Wendy and Danny after that is unknown in the film, at least , although a deleted scene featured them in a hospital, recovering both physically and mentally from everything they went through.
One of the most memorable scenes from The Shining is the blood coming out from the elevator. This is one of the scenes that are unique to the film along with the Grady twins and one that has received a number of interpretations. As mentioned above, Kubrick left many details open to interpretation, whether for viewers to come up with their own explanations or just to mess with them.
Because the Overlook Hotel in the film, at least was built on an Indian burial ground, the blood coming out from the elevator has been interpreted as that of the Indians buried there. The ghost is Delbert Grady, and the past caretaker was Charles Grady.
The latter is the one that Jack says he saw in the newspaper and the one who killed his family in the hotel , and thus the reincarnation of Delbert Grady. Of course, there are some more convincing and coherent than others, but The Shining is, at its core, a story about violence and abuse and how these are often cyclical. Jack had a history of anger issues and violence, mainly against his family.
Jack is a recovering alcoholic and relapses at the hotel. He might have had his anger under control for a while before taking the job, but he went back to it there. The hotel itself also has a history of cyclical violence: it was built over an Indian burial ground, and by its existence is a testament to the violence of colonization.
Charles Grady killed his family with an axe, and Jack was on track to replicate that. A popular theory, and one that has gone very deep into the symbolism of The Shining , says that the film also addresses sexual abuse. The scene with the man in the dog costume and the man in a tuxedo is the one used to support this theory, which says the dog represents Danny who earlier in the film is shown to have a plush toy and the man in the tuxedo represents Jack.
Even when looked at more literally, The Shining 's meaning is still up for debate, as some fans disagree on whether the ghosts in The Shining are even real. Of course, the ghost of Grady freeing Jack from the freezer remains hard to explain away, although that doesn't stop some from trying. The film is replete with doubles and cycles, people existing in two time frames at once as different incarnations, and conflicting personas which are battling for supremacy.
Danny Torrance, the young boy who is gifted with a power of extra-sensory perception, manifests this confusing part of his psyche with the persona of Tony. As Kubrick's camera slowly tracks down the hallway of the Torrance's home, we see Danny leaning over the sink, but we cannot see his head.
The horror of the moment sinks in when we hear two voices emerging from the bathroom. This is all carried out over the superbly rattling audio track, which sounds like ear-ringing from a head-crushing migraine. We are effectively drawn into Danny's mind. When the camera cuts, we see two Dannies, one looking into the mirror, and the reflection facing us. The camera begins then to track directly into the mirror. It is through this mirror that Danny sees the vivid warnings of doom - the deceased Grady sisters and the spouting blood-filled elevator.
It is a wonderfully unsettling sequence early in the film. Jack Torrance certainly has his own conflicting selves to deal with. Initially he appears to be a fairly stable father and husband, but this begins to disintegrate as he approaches the Overlook. This first moment in the film in which it is apparent that Jack has been assimilated into the hotel comes after the 'A Month Later' cut.
It is a bizarre, somewhat confusing shot. We see Jack lying in bed, but it isn't until Wendy enters the room and the camera moves back that we realize we were actually watching the mirror image of Jack.
Kubrick has subtley tricked us. As Wendy walks in, the camera moves back into the mirror, where we watch Jack muse on his newfound attachment to the Overlook. It's as if he 'knew what was going to be around every corner.
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