I just got to see The Shining in a movie theatre on the big screen. One of the theater chains where I live plays old classics every Tuesday. I got to see The Princess Bride and Batman (the original with Michael Keaton), too. Unfortunately, I missed The Yellow Submarine but I got to see that at a film festival when I was 8, at least.
I caught something about the movie that I had missed up until now. The madness doesn't really start to descend on the family until Wendy and Danny reach the clearing at the end of the maze path. I only had a moment to study the screen but it looked as if you could draw a line down the middle of the maze and each side would be a reflection of the other. To me this symbolized a sort of gateway between the living world and the ghost world that the Overlook seemed to dually inhabit. This is also the moment where you see Jack towering over the small scale reproduction of the maze with a menacing glare as he looks down on it.
Later, Danny slips into the "other side" in the scene where he's on the floor playing with his trucks. After the ball rolls up to him the pattern on the carpet underneath him has changed orientation. The pattern has now become reversed. Room 237 is now unlocked on this side.
When Danny finally escapes Jack's pursuit at the climax of the film, he leads him back to the clearing in the maze. Danny returns to the gateway and comes back out the other side to safety.
I'm not saying I'm right but this helped me to visualize what was happening, at least some of it.
I know people point to the Calumet can as evidence that the movies story is referencing genocide but there were also tubs of Kool-Aid and Tang and Nabisco products. But I do understand Kubrick carefully designed every detail in his films. This led me to wonder why he included the cars on the road early on as the Torrance family traveles through the tunnel. Before they travel through the tunnel there's a car on the right side of the road. When they emerge on the other side of the tunnel there's a car on the other side of the road with its doors open, facing against traffic.
I caught something about the movie that I had missed up until now. The madness doesn't really start to descend on the family until Wendy and Danny reach the clearing at the end of the maze path. I only had a moment to study the screen but it looked as if you could draw a line down the middle of the maze and each side would be a reflection of the other. To me this symbolized a sort of gateway between the living world and the ghost world that the Overlook seemed to dually inhabit. This is also the moment where you see Jack towering over the small scale reproduction of the maze with a menacing glare as he looks down on it.
Later, Danny slips into the "other side" in the scene where he's on the floor playing with his trucks. After the ball rolls up to him the pattern on the carpet underneath him has changed orientation. The pattern has now become reversed. Room 237 is now unlocked on this side.
When Danny finally escapes Jack's pursuit at the climax of the film, he leads him back to the clearing in the maze. Danny returns to the gateway and comes back out the other side to safety.
I'm not saying I'm right but this helped me to visualize what was happening, at least some of it.
I know people point to the Calumet can as evidence that the movies story is referencing genocide but there were also tubs of Kool-Aid and Tang and Nabisco products. But I do understand Kubrick carefully designed every detail in his films. This led me to wonder why he included the cars on the road early on as the Torrance family traveles through the tunnel. Before they travel through the tunnel there's a car on the right side of the road. When they emerge on the other side of the tunnel there's a car on the other side of the road with its doors open, facing against traffic.