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In Reply to: RE: If you are a fan of Kubrick but didn't like The Shining posted by dwill123 on May 13, 2021 at 06:16:15
Did the video's new analysis change your view when looked at in a completely different light?
If the Wendy Theory holds then this is no longer a film about a fantastical hotel or a man who gets cabin fever and tries to kill his family.
In fact, in this light - it is perhaps about a woman who read "The Shining" by Stephen King and the novel is in her schizophrenic mind when she heads to a hotel.
No "Shining" and No ghosts - just a woman going mad. I would not put it past Kubrick to make you think you watched a movie you never really saw.
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That Roger Ebert quote that Tin put up pretty much nails it, IMO.
We don't know who's version to believe.
" 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."
Indeed,
"Did Jack's violent pursuit of his wife and child exist entirely in Wendy's imagination, or Danny's, or theirs?" Roger Ebert
Anyway - it ranks as one of the great horror films regardless of how one views it but I suppose I think it is a stronger film from the Wendy Theory take for being her madness than simply a film about a haunted hotel with supernatural and evil powers.
A lot of support for her hallucinating most of what is going on makes sense.
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