10 Movies That Might All Be In The Character's Head

5. The Shining

Writers, we presume, have the wildest imaginations of any profession; they're the people most determined to prove the phrase "You couldn't have made it up" as being false. Jack Torrance from The Shining though is a struggling writer, who can't get a break. As his project stalls further, he becomes angrier, more violent, eventually finding out that he is in fact the caretaker of the hotel, and "always has been". It's implied that he's a new incarnation of an old caretaker, possibly the only caretaker ever of the hotel; but what if Jack, frustrated with his writers' block, imagined all of this as a story to write? The endless drafts all reading, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" could actually mean something to Jack. It's an intricate, twisted and thrilling plot that maybe only someone that angry could conceive, and it could all be born as a writing exercise to stimulate Jack's imagination.