wendy teaches jack about the cost of domestic violence.

you may think the shining is simply a horror film, brimming with naught but gruesome slaughterings and sleep-depriving scare-scapes, but you’d be 30% wrong (plus or minus 30%). there are scenes in this film that aim to bring us a better, more tolerant world.

domestic violence: nobody likes it; most strive to avoid it, sometimes at the miniscule cost of their spouse’s well-being. what could possibly convince us to stop beating each other completely?! i’ll tell you: nobody likes to look stupid or crazy. now, let’s take a look at this scene between the loving couple, wendy and jack.

look at wendy swinging her bat. she looks fucking stupid, doesn’t she? poor form, stiffly awkward grip, asinine waving motion, as if she were the “beatings fairy” delivering the gift of a swift whack to some kid. she looks absolutely, shelley-duvall-level ridiculous. and we all see that. now, the wife whose husband is taunting and threatening will think twice before cracking him in the skull, eh? she certainly doesn’t want to look as fucking stupid as wendy did!

then there’s jack. he’s a raving lunatic, isn’t he? if he were any crazier, he’d have a swastika carved into his head and “helter skelter” pouring out of the ole gramophone. so don’t you think our theoretical joe abusive-asshole would watch this scene and think to himself, “oh wow… i look like that? jeez, okay…” mr. abusive-asshole doesn’t want to look batshit crazy any more than he wants to look effeminate in front of his clan rally buddies. so game over, domestic violence!

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