Here's my completed version of the previous post.

okay, 'The Shining'. 1980. When like me, you delve deeper into the world of American film and tv, certain film names and images pop up to me and time again.

Ofcourse, Jack Nicholson's wide sadistic smiling face pressing through a large crack in a door is one of them. And to actually watch it was something special.

This film has been hailed as horror classic (or a thriller. Decide for yourself, shit!). Thinking about it, it doesn't have a maniac killer, no demons, no ghosts. Its just a man. Yeah! A man. Ok..a weird man, but a man nonetheless. Which makes this film even greater.

As I was watching the film, I kept on thinking, "Man, this scene is taking forever. Be gone, scene. Be gone!" But. Every time a scene finishes I think, "Ok. That was actually good." Seems like Kubrick takes his sweet time to set up a scene and with my 3 second attention span each scene felt painful. But each scene had a good conclusion. Slow build up, great conclusion. To make such a gripping film with so little is mind boggling.

A few things struck me whilst watching the film.

The first is a striking resemblance to Jurassic Park (probably my favourite film of all time). The scene towards the end where the little boy, Timmy is limping across the kitchen running away from a velociraptor, came to mind when Jack is also shown limping across the kitchen in Shining.

The second is when the boy, in The Shining, hides in cabinet in kitchen. Ofcourse, that me reminded of the scene JP when Lex struggled to close a kitchen cabinet door before another velociraptor tried to get at her.

The third is that shot of Jack in which the camera is on the ground looking up at him as he's hobbling along looking for his target. This bore so much resemblance to 'No Country's' antagonist Anton Chigurgh. Another image that reminded me of Chigurgh is when Jack is shown limping through the maze, that silhouette of the jeans, jacket and rounded hair.

Just my observations. That's my 'quick' take on the Shining. Genius film from Kubrick!
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone provided by Airtel Zambia.