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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Stanley Kubrick's classic and, initially at least, much underrated, horror film The Shining might appear to be the topic of this documentary curio, but its real subject is cinematic obsession. Composed for the most part of slowed-down, speeded-up and occasionally annotated clips of Jack Torrance and his stricken family, it explores a handful of theories about the "true meaning" of the 1980 movie. They range from the barely credible - that the whole hotel-set shebang is a metaphor for the massacre of native Americans by white settlers or that Kubrick uses King's story to explore the Jewish Holocaust - to the truly whacked-out. (According to one, Kubrick's film is really a disguised admission to having faked Nasa's footage of the Apollo Moon landings.) It's harmless fun at first, but soon becomes vaguely tiresome, and in the end tells you little about what might be one of Kubrick's most interesting films.

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DirectorRodney Ascher

Details

Theatrical distributor
Metrodome
Released on
2012-10-26
Languages
English
Guidance
Violence, nudity.
Available on
DVD
Formats
Colour
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