DREAM STORY

Jack awakes from his dream and tells Wendy, in an unguarded moment, his vision of their murder. This motif - of a dream revealing the innermost desire - is also used in Eyes Wide Shut with equally painful (but smaller) consequences.

The use of the camera underneath the table indicates that we, the viewer, are seeing something that perhaps we shouldn�t. We�re looking up at the couple as if we are hiding under the floorboards in order see something hidden. As if we are in the fabric of The Overlook itself.

And into this scene of shouting and screaming, of a family tearing itself apart, Danny wanders in, shaken and stirred, and with bruises inflicted by unseen hands upon his neck. Jack, unable to relate to other human beings or to emphasise with them, can only stare mute, and confused by events, unable to defend himself.

After Danny�s appearance, Jack is shown staring, speechless, scared of the enormity of the situation whereby Danny appears injured. In this respect he is the hotel at this point, unfeeling, uncaring, a mute observer watching all and sundry for its own entertainment. However, as Jack regains his old self, he begins to look confused, lost, and alone. As if he�s lost and can�t find his way back home anymore.