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Pilchard123:
What? Why?
Parkour Lewis:
I saw The Shining a couple night ago all the way through in one sitting for the first time. For some reason I'd never had the chance to see the whole thing before, but after watching 2001 a few days before I've developed a fascination with Stanley Kubrick. I have an overactive imagination and I'm about three jars of nuts so getting to sleep that night after watching The Shining in HD was a challenge.
The great part though, is reading peoples' insane theories on the movie. I had the misfortune of watching that Room 237 documentary and though it did point out a lot of curiosities that I missed about the movie, those people drew some.... dubious conclusions from them. Plus it was just edited badly, I'm still half convinced that it was meant as a mockumentary. I don't think the movie is a commentary on the Jewish people faking Native American moon landings in 2001 or anything, but I do think there's a deeper story hidden in it, that follows the same theme but just tells more of the story.
Like what seems weird to me is that in all the review sites, analyses, etc that I've read over the past couple days, none of them has mentioned one of the obvious things that I noticed, unless I'm just not seeing it right. They go on about all the mirrors in the movie and duality, but none ever mention that sometimes the mirrors don't show things right. The two main instances I noticed are the scene where Jack is angrily walking through the halls right before the Gold Room scene, and the mirrors are showing him walking through them too early. He's passing one set of mirrors and the next is showing him walking through before he gets there. I thought that maybe it was a trick of camera positioning or something but it still looks off to me, I keep thinking that the protrusions from the wall should be blocking him being shown or jsut that we shouldn't be seeing his reflection yet in the mirror. And then the last mirror right before he enters the Gold Room should be showing him, but it doesn't. Maybe I'm missing something about mirrors and how they work I dunno.
But the other one is in a later scene where Wnedy is pacing back and forth in the apartment muttering to herself about leaving, and she keeps passing right in front of this standing mirror that never reflects her image. I realized that it's angled up a bit, but not enough to not be showing her in my opinion. I can't be the first person to have noticed this in thirty-three years of the movie's existence, so what am I missing? Or is it just so obvious that no one bothers mentioning it? Or am I nuts?
Don't answer that.
ackblom12:
Yeah, Kubrick did a lot of stuff like that in the movie. Impossible room layouts, reflections that just were 'wrong' and a lot of other things like that. It all just adds to the sense that something isn't 'right' incredibly well.
LeeC:
check out robag88/rob ager on youtube. He does a lot of critical analysis especially ont he shinning. There was stuff kubric did subliminally like thw wallpaper and colors matching the two girls and indeed the mother and child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWqTXPsDUMc
mind blowing.
he does a good amount of critical analysis with a lot of films. Pretty good stuff especially his alien review using birth trauma and other stuff.
Parkour Lewis:
Yeah, that guy makes some good points but more often than not reads way too much into certain things. Also I find it hard to take him seriously after watching the video where he tried to say the whole movie wasn't really about a haunted hotel, but in fact was all about the evils of abandoning the gold standard and abusing fiat currency. And throughout that film and the one you just posted I kept yelling, "FOR CHRISSAKES KUBRICK DIDN'T BUILD THE GOD DAMN HOTEL!"
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