Because Kubrick ‘couldn’t grasp the sheer inhuman evil of The Overlook Hotel’, King speculated, he transformed the story into a domestic tragedy. King was critical of Kubrick’s omission of his novel’s supernatural themes in The Shining the filmmaker chose instead to focus on the psychological fallout of a man’s descent into madness.
Pictures shows Ewan McGregor in a scene from Doctor Sleep. Flanagan instead cuts between them, building towards an epic showdown that ultimately requires you to bear with over two hours of dense storytelling.
The other half delves into the mythology of the world, populated by gifted individuals with supernatural abilities, and a hat-wearing cult that harvests their powers in exchange for immortality.Īside from a couple of moments, these parallel plot lines never really converge into a satisfying whole.
Half the film plays like a grim sequel to The Shining, tracing a now grown-up Danny Torrance’s story as he learns to live with the trauma inflicted upon him as a child the trauma that continues to haunt and cripple him as an adult. Unfortunately, he does this not by arranging for a polite discussion or by scheming a forced embrace, but by keeping them at an arm’s length from each other.
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