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RE: If you are a fan of Kubrick but didn't like The Shining

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Sondek

In Reply to: RE: If you are a fan of Kubrick but didn't like The Shining posted by RGA on May 13, 2021 at 06:34:39

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."

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RE: If you are a fan of Kubrick but didn't like The Shining - RGA 17:52:39 05/13/21 (0)
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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