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This is a movie about sexual abuse of Danny, and the guilt and hatred for his wife becomes expanded by the powers of the hotel. It's clear when the doctor sees him that Tony lives in his mouth and hides in his stomach, without being too graphic.

There are numerous continuity errors in each Stanley Kubrick film. No, he was not free of making mistakes. I know you'll chalk this up as "it's the way you interpret the film." Straight forward there are errors in the film, it's part of making a movie with a production timeline. Now that you apparently rewatched this numerous times, how about learning more about video production to understand how these small mistakes can happen.

NO. The movie was a travesty and an insult to Stephen King's masterpiece.

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Blame the child: the lil' bastard seduced his parents 😅 The devil/demon possessed Danny long before the trip to Overlook in order for torturing the family. It can perhaps even telepathically manipulate others. Why? Why not! If we want to create "interpretations". Sorry, but most of the explanations are prime examples of the movie being used as a "cold reading" device.

Any movie or story you can find thousands of meanings and subjects. You can’t make a story or movie that’s just 1 concrete meaning cuz everyone is life events are different so you will see what relates to your life.

Idk I thought all the weird stuff was jacks book did you see when he sees the painting of the care taker he starts walking like he was thru the maze, like he was pict his character walking like that. The finger think Tony I just thought that’s how he dealt with his trauma. If u look halerin always has to ask Danny questions right after they were shining so it was just Danny’s imagination. Also when all the scary stuff happened like the typewriter changed Danny’s big wheel changed colors several other things so I think he’s telling his book story while they’re their.

Very cool but I think Kubrick and King both say the supernatural plays a pivotal role. King for sure because the shine is a power many of his characters have or places. Kubrick explicitly, when he said he left it vague until Jack is let out of the walk in fridge. Clueing the audience in that it is indeed the supernatural that has hold on the situation. And it seems odd you say Danny's imaginary friend saying it doesn't want to go is all in Wendy's head because Wendy doesn't want to go and feels powerless in her life. Way less interesting than a troubled child who is showing signs of coping with abuse, whose imaginary friend knows it doesn't want to go to the hotel. Hinting the imaginary friend knows something dark is there and out of self preservation it tells the mother it doesn't want to go when the child isn't even sure himself.

Nah! It´s not Wendy, it's the hotel. According to Kubrick. "The Wendy theory" seems like a far fetched theory to me.

Kubrick absolutely was a perfectionist that is a well known fact. Consequently I believe that the background changes and discrepancies were intentionally done to unsettle the viewer and add to the feeling that something was wrong with the hotel. If you take in to account when this film was released into theatres…….most people would see a movie only once so multiple rewatches and scrutinizing scenes for hidden meanings wasn’t something the average person was able to do then the way we can now, I’m not saying people didn’t do it, just that it was not as commonly done then as it is now. Because of this I personally think that Kubrick’s decision to include things like apparent continuity errors and changing decor in the back of emotionally charged scenes was to increase the general feeling of unease that built throughout the film. These things would not always be consciously noticed however a viewer’s subconscious would pick up on it and it would absolutely add to the increasing feeling that there is something wrong or sinister occurring at the hotel.

Interesting theories but ultimately too much like a book report by someone who didn't read the book. Also, you might be showing your age. It's difficult to be sure just based on your image and voice, but you do sound younger to me, and in the 70's and 80's, not only would our parents let us stay with the nice cook and have ice cream, they didn't even know where we were for most of a typical summer day. While the term "helicopter parent" was technically coined in 1969, the phenomenon of massive numbers of these fretful, obsessive parents, truly dates from the late 80's. 🤷‍♂️

The stay is 6.5 months not 5. Jack says 5 but ullman says oct 31 to may 15… 6.5 months

The idea that Stanley Kubrick doesn’t make mistakes is ludicrous.. While I believe that some of the continuity “errors” are deliberate, I am sure that most are just regular errors that happen in pretty much every film.. And as many takes as that guy did, there are going to be errors..He is human..

Absolute nonsense. he wasn't ABANDONED by his government. He was held accountant for breaking laws in ANOTHER FUCKING COUNTRY. this is unbelievable. The fact that everyone is okay with letting the Lord of weapons be traded for him just goes to show that we are living in Orwellian times.

Cruddy theory

The film is not about ghosts. Its about the minds of men.

Realize that window in the office shouldn't be there

I like your video although I disagree about Wendy. However, I think reversing ideas about a person is a good idea. DYK that there was an old essay about Macbeth in which the author states that Lady Macbeth was the killer because she thought her husband was weak? Yes, for real. Here is my take on Wendy: a very, very frightened woman who has had many losses (financial, place in the community) and is terrified of more. She is inappropriately cheerful, the worse with the health care visitor (not necessarily physician, maybe be N.P., P.A.) the vapid smiling on a serious subject. Psychotic, no. Dissociative, yes. Her reality is so ugly and scary but not psychotic. Hers is everything going to be alright, everything's fine. She just can't take another loss. (Even a job would be difficult to manage due to child's age, between a rock and a hard place). I do like your calling attention to details. (Once had a film teacher who taught that everything in a film means something). Did you notice the whole, uncut sandwiches yet in the background are plenty of knives early in the film? All the kids I knew, me included had their sandwiches cut to specifications e.g. triangles, squares. Also when I was small, my mother cut the crusts off as her thinking was the birds would get them anyway since I avoided eating crusts. Very unkid like and unmom like. So I will keep watching and probably commenting. I would like to know what you think of how I see Wendy.

24:23 She's showing us her pride and joy!

I get what your going for in this, but i think when we see wendy do all of jacks jobs is because who else was going to do it? He was slowly going mad and at the beginning she was an apologist for his behavior of abuse towards danny. You can also tell jack doesnt care for her from the jump. She is just there as a choice he made and now cant stand. She begins the movie as an enabler, but through time she begins to understand her own strength, and flaws. She starts fight back against jacks abuse. In the end she wins. In the end we witness a mother gaining back her own power. You also start to feel her shame for gaslighting danny all along.

It seems like you are just parroting the 'Wendy Theory' and combining it with some Jung. The Wendy Theory is completely discredited, as well as being misogynistic.

Have you seen 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'? Maybe a clue as to the unplugged TV. What does Nicholson do, when Ratched turns the TV off?

So far, it's an interesting take. And I'm not opposed to the idea that Wendy has an imagination, but I'm doubtful as to whether it is any sort of psychosis. I think what we see is three people, each with an active imagination, a family caught up in the American Dream, who get through by shining their love for one another.

If it was Wendy's hallucination, would Danny be so bewildered?

Halloran doesn't tell him a horror story. We think of t as a horror story because A] we've seen the film before, and B] what he describes sounds supernatural, when in fact it is perfectly natural. He is, again, genuinely surprised when Danny askes about an unremarkable room, but reminds him that he has no rights going into any of the rooms. But because we know what is actually in the room we see it as spooky.

The tour of the kitchen, and Halloran's chat with Danny, explains the entire film. It defines what shining actually is. Since it is Halloran who introduces it, then we have to take his word for it's meaning. And he was introduced to it as a young, highly imaginative child. To him, it is the ability to hold entire conversations without saying a word. In reality it was the love of his nurturing Grandmother, and her ability to sense what is wrong, just by looking at her Grandson. She would probably call it shining, like a guardian angel would shine. It is perfectly natural to Halloran's culture, but appears supernatural to American culture. Personally, my own grandfather used to shine, when he would tell me that a little dicky bird had told him exactly what I had been up to, so I don't find it that strange, or scary. He just knew the right things to say, in order to convince me. I do find this point is where you argument for Wendy also having an active imagination, is strongest. It could well be that Wendy imagined him saying "Doc". But more importantly, as you point out, his reply was perfectly innocent and not to be doubted. As such, I think that he attributes this to his ability to shine. And, although this is weak, his explanation that Danny must look like a Doc, could be where he gets the idea that he had that conversation without saying a word. Halloran is a seasoned, and dedicated Hotel worker, with no family. Any paternal love he could have shared, he has given to the hotel. You could say the hotel is his baby. I've worked in hotels and know a few people like this. Suffice to say Hallorans ability to shine is manifested in his ability to know what a guest wants, before the guest does. A lot of that is down to certain tricks which I'm sure you are aware of. Such as how to occupy a child, while the adults conduct business. You offer them ice cream. So, it's likely that Halloran was always going to offer Danny ice cream, in fact he states it in the vey next scene "We're just getting to the ice cream". So how does Danny come to imagination i is somthing supernatural? It happens in the dry stores. As they enter, Halloran and Wendy split off from Danny, leaving him in his own imagination [in case you're unsure the camera zooms in on him]. When they left the freezer where he was asked about his favourite food, Danny looks up to Halloran, expecting fries and ketchup, as promised. But he quickly sees they are not forthcoming, and instead wishes he had asked for ice cream. He is imagining Halloran asking him again. So when Halloran asks him he thinks he has read his mind.

42:51 there is a shadow on the wall that looks very much like a lamp shade. And it even pops into view, just a tiny bit that you might think was the boom if you didn't know Kubrick.

Danny is reliving the trauma of the accident when Jack dislocated his shoulder. The shot of the blood pouring down the walls, transitioned into Danny's open mouth, represents the taste of blood when you suffer a serious injury.

I think it would be strange for Kubrick to be planting the seed that Wendy doesn't have a voice, when she does more talking than Jack does, in their tour of the hotel. She literally leads from the front the entire time.

They're at the hotel for a month, that we don't see. I think it's safe to assume he told Wendy all about it.

I hope this bring my theory of Wendy being the agressor into focus. Jack was the first caretaker, after all. He wouldn't be alive. 'Tony' was likely the boy's dad that was killed by his mother. 🤷‍♂️

People look way too much in The Shining. It’s a movie, just enjoy it.

Yeah, russia taking someone else's territory is exactly how the UK stole the islands from Argentina

It was my interpretation that Tony is adult Danny communicating with his child self from the future & the reason Danny opens up and talks to Dick over the ice cream about his abilities is because he's never encountered another person who can do what he can, finally somebody believes and understands what he's experiencing and can be sympathetic

So was unhinged jack maybe how he was when he was still drinking and maybe when he had thet accident with Danny's arm😅 considering they made jack seem buzzed😮

Rather than hallucinations, I think the correct term for her episodes is "delusions".

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she's reading Catcher in the Rye a novel about a liar and a manipulator Wendy is a liar and a manipulator Your theory is bad and you should feel bad.

I need a nap

Read the Book!!!

You look so good clean shaven

There is one ghost … you the viewer :-)

Wouldn't it be funny if in the radio room where Jack hears the radio announcement kdk if it was Kubrick to King jab

Always get adverts for subjects spoken or texted about. It's a breach of privacy.

Nah it’s not Wendy. You just watched this film too many times in a row 😂

Maybe the red book is the red book that we covet in the legal arena. There's blacks law and then there's the red book . When you know you know it explains how this system does have us as debt slaves. Could be a comment on everyone's a slave to themselves or some junk like that some Carl Jung thing LOL🎉 but it just hit me could be THE red book.

Why do you think Kubrick had Hallorann call the storage room "the story room"?

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Interesting. But I think at this point, it's based on the book. The hotel is changing, it is alive. But as a second layer it is an interesting theory.

I have another idea for you, that has occurred to me after seeing Dr. Sleep, and reading The Institute, Rose Madder, and The Dark Tower series (all written by King). I never read the Shinnig, but I remember the miniseries vaguely. First I do think Wendy may be a bit socially awkward, had a sheltered childhood, or extremely child like. Predators choose these kind of women, because they are easy to isolate, gaslight, and abuse for long lengths of time. Maybe she was charmed by Jack, maybe she slipped up and got pregnant, and forced to marry him. Regardless of the reason. She is terrified of Jack, and so is Danny. Jack is morose, cynical man. Definitely an domestic abuser, and violent when drunk. Hence being fired from his previous job. The Overlook is definitely a haunted, evil place. These are constant identifiable tropes in King's books. Kubrick is very detail oriented, and maybe he did deviate from the book. I haven't read it, so I can't say. My new theory doesn't really rely on Kubrick's possible allegorical reasoning. I'm going to draw on King's usual tropes of evil, supernatural, flawed adults, and unfortunate isolated intuitive children. So here we go..... The Overlook Wants Out Theory...Or Growing Pains The Overlook is kinda old. Depending on whatever reason you want use. It was built on death, destruction, greed, and hedonism. Over time many evil deeds, and maybe hundreds of just plain negative (but not necessarily pedos, murderous people, think of the very real Cecil Hotel in LA). The Overlook soaks it up, and absorbs evil. In the winter, it has slim pickings, and since it's old, it gets bigger, and it needs more to sustain itself. Now it is aware of people who "shine" because Halloran worked there for decades. But it can't use Halloran, because he's not evil. Halloran is not affected by The Overlook, but is fully aware of it's evil. Now here comes Jack on an interview. Jack radiates evil , The Overlook feels it because its from the outside, and it feels an even stronger "shine" connected to Jack... Danny. Now...here comes the dosy...The Overlook maybe realizes it can feel outside it's borders and if it uses triangulation, it can expand outside its borders. Weird right? This is why Halloran knows Doc's name. It was Halloran's "shine" that woke up Tony in the bathroom. Danny felt the "shine" before. His dad, maybe a classmate or 2. But Halloran's "shine" was an overload, because it was Jack, Halloran, and the Overlook all at the same time. It blew his circuits. The only "shine" that wasn't aware is Jack. Let's just call Jack the Overlook's Trojan horse. The Overlook let Wendy and Danny get away, because Danny was the only way The Overlook can get off the mountain, and expand into world.... Crazy huh???