So yesterday, I watched "Room 237" a documentary about symbolism and trickery in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining".
Most of the documentary was pretty good, but I realized that I had seen part of it on YouTube (the section on the architectural tricks).
Over all, it's an interesting film with guesses on it's hidden meaning. But of course there's no way of knowing. Is it a statement on the Jewish Holocaust? Is it about the massacre of Native Americans throughout US history?
And then suddenly, I was taken out of he movie and angered. One of the "experts" started going off on how there are hidden messages in the movie that Kubrick is using to tell everyone how he was the person behind the filming of the faked Apollo missions to the moon.
At that point I half tuned out because I was so pissed off. The rest had some cool ideas like using the mirror imagery to show the film forward and backward projected on the same screen.
So, if you like the movie, I would recommend the documentary, but take some of the ideas with a grain of salt.
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