Come and play with us, Danny …forever, and ever, and ever.

250 films - #001 

The Shining, 1980 (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

You see even in daylight this place still looks a bit sinister. It was at the top of these stairs that the second murder took place. She came out of the door there and met the victim at the top, of course in a flash there was the knife and in no time the victim tumbled and fell with a horrible crack, I think the back broke immediately it hit the floor. It was, it’s difficult to describe the way the… the twisting of the… well I, it’s… I won’t dwell upon it.

It’s sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn’t allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They’ll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man… as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can’t move a finger, and I won’t. I’ll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do… suspect me. They’re probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching… they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…”