[Week 6] Is there a "perfect" structure of human society?

After watching many horror film about disfunction family, come back to watch the Shining seems make me rethink about the scary point of horror film. I've watched this film 2 years ago after the Ready Play One released, I remembered I did not have a good impression of this film from the first time watching it, after seeing this film again few days ago, I confirmed my thought that I don't really appreciate the story of this film. This doesn't mean the film is not scary or make me too scared. It just make me feel that all the characters inside the film could be depicted in a better way to express the idea of the story. 

I am the type of people who consider the logic as a significant important element of film. I know it sounds bad to only care about the reasonable development of plot in film especially I am trying to find perfect logic in horror film. In this case, maybe consequence film or suspense novel will be the only thing I'd like to see. However, I still insist that a film could be both aesthetically good and logically make sense and passing a clear point to the audience. 

In some of the interview report, it seems Stanley Kubrick revised Stephen King's original story of shining way to much which get to the point that after the test screening, Stephen King began to hate both Kubrick and Jack Nicholson, the leading man of the film. (!!Spoiler alert!!) The original story in Stephen's book is that, in the end when Jack got control by the ghost inside the Overlook Hotel, he is using all his power and conscious to against the distraction, saving his son and wife some time to escape from the horrible situation. Which further shows the conflict inside Jack's mind between loving and protecting his precious family members and arbitrarily killing them in order to give vent to his discontented about his social status and position as being a "loser" in career and family. In the film, even Jack is the one that work as hotel manager, the main jobs are actually all done by his wife Wendy. Contact with staffs in radio station, checking electricity...In the meanwhile, Wendy still need to serve her husband as a maid in his daily life. All Jack does is sitting in the empty room and write about new story which he has completely no idea about. Artist are always somehow crazy, that is what we all know, but what I believe Stephen King is trying to tell us is that even the balance is hard to find, and even though become mad can feel release and solve problems in a brutal way, we still need to keep the human being part inside the heart. 

However! In Stanley Kubrick's film, he completely set up Jack as a mad person with illusion and intend to kill all his family just because he is being controlled by the mysterious power of the hotel and he is just out of his mind.  When people ask why did Kubrick set up the plot like this, all his explanation is that "this is supposed to be a creepy horror film, things don't make sense when it is dealing with ghost, I don't even know what is going on". Maybe this is the "best" answer for art that we don't understand, "open to any interpretation".

In Stanley Kubrick's another film, The Clockwork Orange(1971), he also discuss the disfunction of a family and how can a wrong beginning affect the entire upcoming future of all human interaction. the Characters in Stanley Kubrick's film are always somehow cannot being understand, maybe it is a way to represent the reality, that people are not stable at all, not everything is logically make sense even in the real world, so sometime we should stop interpret human's disfunction behavior because maybe there is no answer of being weird.

The Clockwork Orange(1971)