It has been argued that The Shining isn't a true horror film and maybe due to the lack of gore and flat-out torture it isn't. In the documentary “Room 237” directed by Rodney Ascher it details The Shining and the theories behind it, as one theorist describes "In every scene there's an impossibility"- (John Fell Ryan, 2012) Recurring themes constantly surround Kubrick’s 1980 film which brings back interest and curiosity into a complete understanding. However arbitrary it may be, The Shining has been metamorphosed as a film about Nazi Germany, a confession to a faked Apollo 11 moon landing and so much more as people desperately scramble to work out what this film means it is as nonsensical as it is purposeful. Kubrick does not want you to be as alienated as possible unless you wish to delve into the inner workings of his films. The Shining becomes less of a film about chronological order but more about fully exploring the reasoning and ultimately psychological depth behind an event’s occurrence. (Even though he has been sitting in the same chair doing work on his typewriter.) Because we don’t see this, nor recall a time where Jack had a chance to do this we are thrown back to Kubrick’s old ways of playing with time and metaphor to insinuate ideas, theories and concepts whilst leaving us puzzled as to when exactly they happened. When Danny does eventually do so his neck gets scratched and Wendy proclaims that Jack did it. Room 237 tends to act as a metaphoric head-space of Jack, no one ever allowed to go in there or bad things will happen. Rooms of The Overlook act like portals into other worlds whether that be from a 20’s cabaret room to one being gushed with blood. It is however the narrative of The Shining that makes it more like a labyrinth with rooms to other dimensions. Design-wise the daunting hotel is nothing more than a set of corridors with rooms attached then to the side a maze. To say that the Torrance family are unsuspecting of this new environment may not be completely true, as Jack starts to exhibit something more than curiosity towards the isolation and previous past to The Overlook. Infact The Overlook hotel does very well to make sure that the three of these people seem as small as possible in comparison. No one stays in the hotel during the winter leaving Wendy, Danny, Jack and many (perhaps.) uninvited guests to endlessly torment the family. Though instead of overlooking everything it is actually overlooked by everything else instead. Throughout the beginning of The Shining we are lead around a large, spacious hotel, The Overlook. 1 Opening Scene Yellow Beetle going to The Overlook Eeriness diluted with foreshadowed horror.įigure. Stanley Kubrick, the same director known for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey recreates the Stephen King novel, “The Shining” and as we are driven through an aerial view of mountains tailing a yellow car with off putting music playing in the background a certain mood is set reminiscent of 2001.
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