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Posted by tinear (A) on May 13, 2021 at 05:07:31

In Reply to: RE: If you are a fan of Kubrick but didn't like The Shining posted by RGA on May 12, 2021 at 07:15:01

It's a masterpiece of the horror/ghost genre--- and Kubrick is the most unique of directors in that he not only took on the challenge of different genres, he often made THE example of them. Historical drama. War film. Heist film. Sci-fi. Marital drama.

Like many works of art, often his films aren't easily explained: they are mysterious. The fun of "The Shining" is that it is open to many explanations (like 2001 or Clockwork O).

"The one observer who seems trustworthy at all times is Dick Hallorann, but his usefulness ends soon after his midwinter return to the hotel. That leaves us with a closed-room mystery: In a snowbound hotel, three people descend into versions of madness or psychic terror, and we cannot depend on any of them for an objective view of what happens. It is this elusive open-endedness that makes Kubrick's film so strangely disturbing." Roger Ebert