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Scott H
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« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2004, 01:51:54 PM » |
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My interpretation of The Shining is that those ghosts are the unrested souls of the Indians buried under the hotel. If you remember the beginning of the movie, there is mention that the hotel was built on top of an indian burial site (and that they subsequently had to fight off Indian attacks), and throughout he movie there seems to be desecration of Indian artifacts by Nicholson's character. Remember when he is throwing the tennis ball against the wall with the tapestry on it? He seems to do it out of anger, and that anger (I believe) is translated into spiritual unrest, leading to all the happenings. Why the "ghosts" he sees appear to be American is due to his imagination interpreting the spiritual activity into what he wanted to see. He WANTED a bartender. He WANTED to see other people and get his mind off of his family. He WANTED somone to talk to, though that person would tell him to do things he wouldn't normally do, only think about momentarily (ie, kill his family). Eventually it drove him past the stopping point. Crazy Indians.
Scott H.
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