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I don't understand The Shining and Chinatown. Spoilers.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:01 pm
Would someone explain these 2 movies to me? Thanks.
A few things.. The old picture at the end of the shining.
Chinatown.. Still don't understand most of it.
So please explain what happens in both. Thanks.
A few things.. The old picture at the end of the shining.
Chinatown.. Still don't understand most of it.
So please explain what happens in both. Thanks.
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Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:03 pm to Amazing Moves
you kidding?
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:05 pm to Amazing Moves
Chinatown is basically the story of a smart arse PI (Nicholosn) uncovering just how fricked up the big and rich people in LA can be. It's discovered at the end that Noah Cross (the ultra rich and powerful guy) is trying to shut his daughter (Faye Dunaway) up about the fact that her daughter (Katherine) is also his daughter. In other words, Cross fricked his own daughter and now he wants his other dusghter/grandaughter for himself. Dunaway's character was trying to protect her but the police killed her and there is nothing anyone can do to stop Cross.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:09 pm to Amazing Moves
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:11 pm to Birdie King
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:24 pm to tylerdurden24
Gotcha. That's what I thought. Also the PI repeated the same mistake he did in his past regret from working Chinatown. He tried to protect a girl and she still got hurt.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:38 pm to Amazing Moves
Yeah, Chinatown is pretty straightforward while The Shining is one of those things that's open to interpretation.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:39 pm to Amazing Moves
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 4:58 pm to Amazing Moves
Forget it, Amazing Moves. It's Chinatown
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:08 pm to Carson123987
Got it
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:12 pm to Amazing Moves
May people died at the hotel. He was the newest addition.
The hotel owns him forever now.
The hotel owns him forever now.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:20 pm to SEClint
Ok. That's what I suspected also. The 1921 threw me off.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:20 pm to Amazing Moves
I didn't care too much for Chinatown. I thought it was pretty slow. Very disappointing.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:26 pm to Amazing Moves
quote:
I'm sorry to differ with you sir, but you are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I should know sir - I've always been here.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 5:28 pm to mauser
Could be reincarnation too, and forever he is being drawn back to the hotel to kill. Either way, hotel owns him
Posted on 8/16/14 at 6:03 pm to SEClint
Cool
Another question.. Why was King at odds with Kubrick on the film?
Another question.. Why was King at odds with Kubrick on the film?
Posted on 8/16/14 at 6:12 pm to Amazing Moves
No one understands The Shining. (apart from cabin-fever, abusive-husband, ability to read minds and murder and ghosts and snow and an axe.)
Everything else is just subtext gibberish.
Everything else is just subtext gibberish.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 6:23 pm to Amazing Moves
It would take months to fully understand The Shining, if its even possible. I've watched a bunch of documentaries on it and I'm sure there's still more to learn.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 6:37 pm to alajones
Not trying to pick a fight, but I don't understand how anyone wouldn't recognize Chinatown as a classic. One of the best screenplays to make it tto film.
Posted on 8/16/14 at 7:36 pm to Brosef Stalin
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It would take months to fully understand The Shining, if its even possible. I've watched a bunch of documentaries on it and I'm sure there's still more to learn.
I don't think it's possible. I'm skeptical that there was some huge meaning (guess I'm agreeing with zamroro) It seems like a bunch of sort-of-themes/clues were strung together and left up to the audience to make their own interpretation.
IMHO, it can't be reincarnation because the last guy killed his family only a decade or so previously so it looks to be some sort of possession going on.
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