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RE: Interesting.

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In Reply to: RE: Interesting. posted by RGA on May 12, 2021 at 15:17:44

I was always uneasy with that film.

Kubrick has been my favorite director ever since a couple of high school friends and I borrowed ID's showing legal age so we could get in to see Clockwork when it came out. That film changed my life.

Shining, although I did enjoy it when it came out (and since), always seemed like a lesser work of his, and maybe his weakest (except for Eyes). I've never been able to figure out what possessed Kubrick to make a goofy ghost story out of a goofy Steven King ghost story in the first place. The Wendy Theory answers that. The movie was NEVER about ghosts!

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RE: Interesting. - RGA 19:43:41 05/12/21 (0)
I will watch it again with this new lens. I have to say - it would seem to make the entire film a helluva lot better. It also explains Jack's performance and some of the "why does he go off the rails so fast?" - well maybe he never did. Listen to her dialog talking to the shrink and see how it matched when he is talking to the ghost in the bar.

I came back to this movie because I rather enjoyed Doctor Sleep.

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