"Doctor Sleep?"

Ding Cheng looked at the new script, it was actually a sequel known as The Shining?

The story is set in the story after what happened to Danny, the little hero of the Shining, in the hotel of the previous work, the shadow of the Shining in his heart has been haunting him, and some resentful spirits in the hotel have been pestering Danny and unwilling to leave.

However, Dick, who had saved Danny and his mother, transformed into a spirit and continued to be Danny's Shining Mentor, teaching Danny to lock these spirits in boxes.

Danny, who closed himself off most of the Shining abilities, began to be depressed mentally, and as an adult, he inherited his father Jack's alcoholism to kill his life, becoming an idle homeless man.

Later, he came to a small town, and with the help of the good Samaritan Billy, he got a job cleaning in the nursing home, and by chance, Danny was able to know who was going to die in the nursing home with the help of his shining foresight, and Danny himself did the work of comforting the deceased.

On the other hand, there is a Shining Cult in this world, they specialize in sucking the powerful children of the Shining, and have obtained the effect of immortality, and by chance, the cult boss Rose found her most powerful girl in the Shining so far, Abra, and Abra also wants to try to stop the Shining Cult from continuing to live and suffer, and the two sides began to bar.

On the other hand, Abra and Danny have been pen pals in the Shining Sky since he was a child, and when Abra was defeated by the Shining Cult, Abra asked Danny for help, and the two Shining pen pals met.

Danny initially wanted to continue to avoid and was reluctant to help, but Dick's final appearance indoctrinated Danny, making Danny take on the Shining superpower that the more powerful he was, the more responsible he was, and Danny decided to help Abra and overthrow and kill most of the Shining cult.

When only the head of the sect rose, Danny fights poison with poison and guides Rose to the overlook hotel that was once full of resentful spirits, and finally Danny unlocks all the resentful spirits in the hotel, kills Rose and uses the boiler to burn the entire hotel, and it is a hundred.

However, Danny sacrificed himself in this duel and turned into a spirit to wait by Abrah's side.

After reading the script, it can only be said that it is decent, and in the past two years, it has been popular to adapt various popular classic IPs, but filming a sequel is often a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it can satisfy the feelings of fans, and on the other hand, it may subvert or even distort the original work, causing disgust among fans of the original work.

The most ironic thing is that Kubrick was nominated for the Golden Sour Plum Award in 81 for "The Shining", and even almost won the prize.

And as time goes by, people realize that this is actually a great work, not only justifying its name, but also countless subsequent thriller movies have "learned" from this classic.

In the 40 years since the release of this film, no director has dared to remake it, perhaps precisely because "The Shining" has an irreplaceable height in human film history.

Director Mike has always been good at shooting B-grade horror films, and last year's "Ghost Invasion" series was a hit with word-of-mouth, and his work is not about vulgar bloody visuals, but about interweaving warmth and darkness. It is also very easy to play with the transformation of time and space, how the characters overcome the dark psychology, etc.

It all goes back to the beginning of the whole story, which is the point where the tragedy in The Shining happens, the Panorama Hotel, which sits in a snowy field.

The director points out a path to spiritual redemption: only when Danny truly faces his trauma can he be redeemed. Such a setting gives the possibility of seamlessly connecting the classic scenes in "The Shining", and those tributes that shuttle between them are enough to amaze many fans.

Even the beginning of the script recreates the classic carpet pattern of the Panorama Hotel in "The Shining", the sub-shot slowly recreates the clip of Danny riding a stroller through the porch of the hotel in his childhood, and the steady follow-up of Steadicam sets the psychological thriller tone for the whole film.

This corridor contains almost every kind of horror element, such as the twin sisters with extremely disproportionate heads-to-body proportions, the creepy and coincidental Room 237, the blood-soaked curtain, and the pub full of people but empty......

The almost authentic recreation of Kubrick's classic scenes is not only out of respect for the classics, but also invisibly adds an illusion and psychedelia of time and space displacement to the film.

Design a spiritual self-rescue therapy for the protagonist: imagine that you have countless boxes in your brain, and use willpower to keep those black memories tightly in the boxes. This setting is a psychological detail carefully laid out by the director, and it also plays a crucial role in the subsequent staircase battle.

The corridor may be seen as Danny's terrifying memory, deeply rooted in Danny's blood, a nightmare that he could not escape from his childhood memories. To a certain extent, such a heavy burden of memory also determines his later character: melancholy and deep, with a tendency to escape from himself, and he is an out-and-out pessimist.

I have to say that the dialogue is also very careful, what the whole world is just a sanatorium with fresh air, and we are all dying such low and gloomy words, all suggest that the protagonist who seems to be free from the memory dilemma is still repeating the battle of the trapped beast day after day.

It's just that he is doing the implicit struggle in a more passive way, unlike the 14-year-old girl who is full of vitality and fighting spirit, and when facing the darkness, he seems more conservative, and is initially reluctant to use an offensive posture to resist evil.

The creation of a terrifying atmosphere is more direct than gradual. But it's different from Jump Scare, which always gives the audience breathing room before pushing the thriller flashpoint.

The collective commotion of the true knot clan quietly accumulates strength for the arrival of the climax of the whole film. Undoubtedly, the director's original True Knot organization is another highlight of the movie. The group is both classical and modern, and their devouring posture of devouring living people is quite vampire, and the Gothic style of painting also gives the existence of this group a mysterious and treacherous appearance.

They live on the edge of a dark, remote city, and the director's mockery of modern society is multidimensional: on the one hand, groups with shining traits are not accepted and recognized by society, such as Maiden and Danny or True Clan, who will always be out of place freaks in the eyes of the world.

On the other hand, their special abilities give them the ability to perceive all things, and to perceive their surroundings in advance, whether it is good fortune or danger.

The special function of the Shining is given the meaning of destruction and rebirth by the director, which can make you fall into hell in an instant, merge with the darkness, and kill innocents indiscriminately in order to maintain your youth forever.

At the same time, the weight of memory it carries can also make you kind, so that you can sensitively perceive justice and darkness.

Just like the girl Abra, after she foresaw what happened to the baseball boy, she did not hesitate to decide to defeat the Shinyu clan to rest the soul of the baseball boy. With the blessing of these two layers of meaning, Danny's mental trajectory becomes more three-dimensional, rather than superficial.

The whole hotel can be seen as a labyrinth of memories belonging to the protagonist, who meets his father again, and it is the complex emotions of his father that have forged Danny's current life.

The bar dialogue set up by the director portrays Danny's father as an irresponsible man who is tired of family life, which is indeed not much different from the previous work "The Shining", and it can be regarded as a continuation.

The director doesn't set out to end everything with a clichéd conciliatory ending, and it might be more appropriate to see this conversation as a catharsis for Danny's emotions. It doesn't give Danny an answer, but it does hint at a crucial message: Danny is not going to follow his father's fate.

In Ding Cheng's view, compared with the rich meaning of "The Shining", "Doctor Sleep" is more popular, and there will be no technical problems that cannot be obtained. As a sequel to a classic film, it is worth the investment from a commercial film point of view.