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An spectacular review and different studies and thoughts about Stanely Kubrick's The Shining. Great great overview.
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I'm really torn on this doc. Technically, it's fine - the idea of avoiding talking heads by using clips from The Shining and other films to illustrate the various points made is great, as is the editing together of said clips. But the theories themselves will make your head spin. There are some that are easy enough to digest and then there are the certifiably insane ones. On the other hand, I can't say that I myself haven't concocted my…
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Best of 2013
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Fun collection of theories and nuance trivia about The Shining. Some theories were more interesting and believable than others, but the strong ideas seem to make up for any boring bits. A hardcore fan base is always an entertainingly powerful force!
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Sometimes you can read TOO much into a movie but that's not to say that the hardcore fanaticism on display in Room 237 isn't fascinating in itself!
Room 237 is a purely visual documentary exploring the themes and hidden (and sometimes obvious) meanings on display in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
I remember watching The Shining for the first time when I was a lot younger and being absolutely terrified by it. The inversion of horror cliche of light and dark,…
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An exploration into criticism and fanaticism.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Room 237, or what happens when a group of people who have way to much time on their hands get together and watch a film repeatedly.
This film is nonsense, but it's engaging nonsense nonetheless as seven people delve into the supposed hidden meanings in Kubrick's classic.
The majority of the theories play out like bullshit to be honest, like the film being Kubrick's comment on the treatment of the Native American's or it being his reaction to having been…
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Have you ever watched a film (lets say for examples sake The Shining) and pontificated over the placement of props, the arrangements of hexagons on the carpet or whether it was really all just a veiled confession that the film-maker faked the moon landing footage? No, neither have I, but luckily for us, and the makers of Room 237, a select group of crackpot conspiracists/ visionary pioneers (delete as applicable) have spent years watching and re-watching The Shining, combing over…
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So... I had to turn this off! The Shining is one of my all time favourite films and listening to people dissect & overanalyse it was not my idea of fun. There were one or two nut jobs in particular in this that made me simply stop watching!
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Though it's long and most of the ideas discussed are completely absurd, it's an interesting to listen to others passionately and obsessively hypothesize about Kubrick's towering achievment. Because of the lack of talking heads, we're forced to look at evidence and consider it, no matter how nuts. Regardless, it will definitely make the next viewing of The Shining a bit more fun.
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Room 237 was just a little too long for my taste. If I had to hear one more crazy conspiracy theory I was going to go as nuts as Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining.