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Today I'll show you a supernatural horror film: "Doctor Sleep"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a murder scene somewhere in the woods of Florida, in the 1980s
Violet Hansen, a young girl who is camping with her mother,
wanders in the forest to pick some flowers
there, she encounters a mysterious woman seated in the lakeside,
who introduces herself as Rose the Hat
This woman lures the girl with magic tricks
As she catches the attention of Violet,
this young girl begins to get disturbed by other people skulking around
Rose continues to trick the young girl, until eventually the people seize Violet
As it turns out, Rose is the head honcho of "The True Knot",
a sect of soothsayers, who hound children in order to augment their lifespans by consuming "steam",
a phrenic essence from the torture and murder of children who have the "shining"
They travel around America in their RVs,
in order to find children who hold this power and exploit them
The actions of the cult are driven by greed to do such horrendous acts to children
Indeed, this is the very definition of the word "evil"
One surely would wonder: "are they even still human?"
In this scene, young Danny Torrance is still traumatized by what happened to them at the Overlook Hotel
He still experiences frightening dreams and phantasms about the elements,
that they saw back in the hotel
At this point, Wendy, his mother, is concerned that her son,
affectionately known as "Doc," has not spoken to her since they left the hotel
Danny, who possesses psychic powers, visions the spirit of Dick Hallorann, who presents a wooden box
He tells Danny that he can use the box in order to ward off evil spirits
After their conversation, Wendy runs to her child, who is seated on the bench
and this scene illustrates a bulletin board with a missing child notice for Violet Hansen
That night, Danny and Wendy are watching Looney Tunes on TV
Danny goes to the comfort room
Here, he uses the "box" in his mind to capture the Bathtub Lady,
which is one of the spirits he saw back in the Overlook Hotel, and confines her inside
As Danny goes back to his mother, he begins talking to her again
Fast forward to the year 2011, Danny, a grownup man now, leads a thuggish life in New Jersey,
and engages in alcoholism to forget about his "shine", and cope up with his troubled childhood
Danny figures in a brawl in a bar, beating a man unconscious
He then engages in a wonderful and pleasurable activity with a woman from the bar
As he wakes up in the morning with the woman on the bed,
he sees her child, and becomes baffled by the sight
Meanwhile, in a cinema somewhere in Long Island, Andi, a 15-year old girl,
meets up with an older guy, who connected with her from a dating platform
Rose, with her adjutant, and paramour, Crow Daddy,
happens to be at the cinema and observes her from distant seats
Andi, who also has psychic powers, manipulates the older man to make him sleep,
steals his wallet, and cuts his cheek
Then Rose and Crow chase Andi outside the theatre to bring her to their refuge
The story shifts to Anniston, New Hampshire, where there is a birthday party for Abra Stone,
a 5-year old girl who apparently also has the "shining"
Inside their home, Abra's parents, Dave and Lucy,
see many pieces of spoons floating in the ceiling of their kitchen
The spoons fall over the table, as the young girl says "Abracadabra"
In the meantime, a still-fazed Danny rides a bus upstate to Frazier,
New Hampshire, where he composes himself
While wandering around downtown, he meets and later befriends a local resident, named Billy Freeman
As they talk, Danny confesses that he is running away from something
Billy helps Danny to secure somewhere to stay, and deal with the strict landlady
In this scene, Billy and Danny develop a bond out of the ordinary
We can say that it is Billy who saved Danny from his desolation,
and made him into a new man; and that without him, Danny could have just ended up to death
Andi wakes up the next morning, only to find herself inside Rose's RV
Rose tells Andi that she sees her potential to be a favorable asset of the True Knot
Rose offers the teenager, whom she nicknames "Snakebite Andi ",
a proposition to join them, with the promise that she can "eat well, stay young, and live long,"
basically partaking in the evil deeds of the psychic company
Rose and the rest of the True Knot members initiate Andi into the cult;
Grampa Flick, the oldest member, presides over it
Rose grabs a canister, saying that it contains the "steam" of Violet
She funnels it into Andi, while the other members take their precious share of it
Andi experiences twitching and screeching, until all the shine is absorbed into her body
Danny experiences a nightmare, where he perceives spirits are sleeping beside him
Dan descends to Billy's room, and asks for help while he is scared
At that moment, Billy accompanies Danny to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous
At the local conference, Danny meets a doctor, John Dalton
When Danny saw that the doctor was holding on to his wrist,
he proceeds to him, and says that he left his watch in the bathroom
Impressed by what he saw, Dalton hires Danny as an orderly in a local hospice
One starry night, while he is working in the hospice,
Danny sees Azzie, the Cat, who went into the room of an old guy
He knows that a patient will pass away soon,
when Azzie comes up to their room and lays on their bed, sensing imminent death
The old man is afraid of death
but Danny comforts and tells him that dying is simply like falling asleep
With this, the man accords the moniker "Doctor Sleep" to Danny
The man soon dies; and a breath of "steam" could be seen emanating from him
Danny is soon back home, when he sees a writing on the blackboard wall of his quarters,
saying "Hello", to which he responds by writing, "Hi"
After eight years, Danny discusses in an AA meeting how he didn't know his father,
and only sensed being close to him while intoxicated
This enabled him to recognize that they were both going through similar struggles
but Danny ultimately chose the path of righteousness
He continues to work in the hospice in the same capacity as he did previously
Meanwhile, the True Knot has yet to snap on a nice victim as of recent,
subsisting on canisters, containing vestigial shine from children who are not as "steamy"
In Adair, Iowa, they pin down Bradley Trevor,
a young baseball player who performs well in games, aided by his "shine"
The cult members manage to track him down, and lure him into their van
They bring him to a deserted place, where they delight in the steam coming out from him,
while they torture him to death
Abra senses the deed
She belts out that make her parents awaken
She then tells them about the murder of Bradley
Meanwhile, Rose perceives the presence of the young girl, and starts wondering where it came from
Danny sees a write-up on his wall: "REDRUM"
when inverted, this becomes "MURDER"
He writes back: "Who?"
Then Abra responds by writing, "Baseball Boy"
The cult members then clean up their mess, and kick the boy's corpse into a shallow grave
At her school, Abra studies the sudden disappearance of Bradley Trevor
As she goes back home, she perceives what the True Knot was up to at the moment
She peeks out into her window, levitating briefly while she fetters with Rose, who enters her mind
The young girl defenestrates Rose out,
bringing her down to the floor of the supermarket where she was in
Rose has mixed emotions about what she just discovered
She relays this to Crow, and says that Abra might be hard to handle for the True Knot,
and suggests that she must be terminated
Danny and Abra track each other, and talk about the powers they have
Abra informs Danny regarding the True Knot
but the man warns the young girl that she must avoid getting detected, as she uses her shine
On a dark night, while he is in the hospice, Danny, who followed Azzie the Cat,
stumbles into Dick Hallorann, the same guy whose spirit he met while he was a child
Dick taps Danny's conscience into realizing what the True Knot is up to,
and that he must protect Abra at all costs
Dick then tells Danny that this is the last time he will be seen by Danny
Meanwhile, Rose, in revenge for what Abra did,
penetrates inside her mind, while she sleeps in her room
She sees drawers with files inside, and attempts to scurry among them
Abra knew the intentions of Rose in advance;
the young girl proceeds to trap Rose's hand inside the cabinet
Rose ruptures her skin in an attempt to take her hand away; this leaves her hand bleeding
She notices that when she returns to her real body, the injury remains
This further makes Rose burst into anger, conceiving her plan to kill the young girl
At the same time, Grampa Flick begins to cycle
He is too weak to live further
and after being comforted by Rose, who reminds him about his achievements in life,
he passes away and vanishes
The cult members then try to absorb the steam that remains in him
Andi is puzzled at what she saw;
here, Rose reminds her of the fact that while they can live very long, they would not live forever
Abra calls Danny once more to request help in locating the corpse of Bradley
through this, she would be able to trace the whereabouts of the True Knot
Danny and Billy venture into the deserted place where Bradley is buried
There, they delve into the shallow grave
The two freaked out, and nauseated at the sight of the dead body
The pair bring the glove back to Abra
but Abra's father knew about her connection with a certain "Uncle Dan"
At first, Dave, her father, thinks Danny is some kind of weasel
but Danny explains the situation to him
Abra finally pinpoints the location of the cult members
She realizes that they are going after her
Danny and Billy proceed to the forest to lure the cult, while Abra tricks them from her home
Danny and Billy take advantage of the wooded cover with their sniper guns,
and begin to unleash all hell on the cult members
Rose senses the pain, while her cult members are being hounded in the shootout
Billy is able to gun down Andi
but she goes to manipulate Billy into head-shooting himself, before she passes away
At the same time, Crow penetrated into Abra's home, killing her father and taking her with him
Danny returns to their home
Later, he connects his mind with that of Abra, and enters the mind of Crow
The two maneuver Crow into driving his vehicle into a tree
Because he failed to wear his seat belt, he is forced out of the vehicle, and is instantly killed
Danny meets up with Abra, and goes on a road trip to Colorado,
to put up a last defense against the exasperated Rose,
in the abandoned Overlook Hotel high in the mountains
Danny is strong enough to face his fears, as he walks back into the place where his trauma,
the frightening event that completely changed his life that occurred many years ago
Danny has evolved significantly over the last 40 years
He ceases to be the barbaric, disappointed, and wrecked man he once was
He does learn a great deal on his life journey and discovers his purpose
This scene has an impactful development that leaves the audience with a positive aura
Danny courageously enters the hotel, peeking through the rooms
then inside the mezzanine bar, he meets the Bartender, who looks like Danny's father
Danny reminisces the fact that her mother died when he was 20,
knowing that she was dying because of the flies wandering around her
The Bartender then takes the persona of Danny's father to down the drink he offered to Danny
As Rose finally arrives in the condemned hotel,
Danny and Abra band into trapping their adversary in the icy hedge maze
Abra manages to wound Rose, cutting her legs,
while she mockingly imitates Rose's dialogue when she kills Bradley
I find this part of the film very amusing,
Abra's character overall is made to be that of a cool-headed, savvy, all-knowing young girl,
unlike Danny while he was young, somewhat managed to use her "shining" in everyday life
She is a perfect successor to Danny's legacy
Rose struggles free from Danny and Abra's control, and sends the young girl fleeing for her life
This leaves Danny at his own devices as he faces Rose alone
Rose penetrates into Danny's mind, and sees all the fear and trauma that he had while in the Overlook,
enabling her to begin taking his shine
But then, Rose sees the "boxes" of the spirits of the Overlook, thinking that they have more power
However, Danny unshackles all the spirits, who eventually converge into Rose,
and take all of her shine, ending her life
Things take an unfortunate turn, as Danny becomes the next victim of the spirits, who possess him
The berserk Danny manages to track Abra
The young girl is able to reach into Danny's inner self
Danny sends Abra out of the hotel, already aware of what is going to happen to him
He takes all the spirits into the boiler room, and causes the Overlook to go up in flames with him
The death of Danny Torrance is a meaningful death
It is not the death itself that rings the bell,
for he has nothing to lose and everything to gain in life
It is what we can get from it that truly matters:
the value of sacrifice, in that we need to let go of the things dear to us,
in order to achieve something greater; that will be beneficial in the long run
Abra continues to talk with Danny's spirit after he died
When her mother asks about this, Abra at first rebuffs everything that happened;
but then confides that she was communicating with Danny, and even with her father
The movie ends when Abra and her mother are watching TV;
and Abra excuses herself to go to the bathroom, where the Bathtub Lady lurks
Just as young Danny did forty years ago, Abra traps the spirit into the "box" in her mind
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