She is 13 and has been Stanley Kubrick-obsessed for over two years.
They are twins, not identical like the twins inThe Shining, they are nocturnal twins.
Kubricks Rube
The director ofRoom 237, Rodney Ascher, is a geek.
The hours he must have spent watching and re-watchingThe Shiningsurely boggled his own happily obsessed mind.
I am an unabashed Stephen King reader and an avid Stanley Kubrick watcher.
I loved the movie.
I loved the book.
I love conspiracy theories, I dont particularly believe them, but I love them.
For all this, I always thought The Shining was a horror movie.
Or a Christmas movie, as I said in my own look-back review of the film.
Some might seeRoom 237as a glorified YouTube video, but it is witty and well-made.
Kubrick was more than a perfectionist and his attention to the minutiae of every frame is legendary.
Kubrick was from the Bronx.
Raised on the Grand Concourse, he spent his teens hustling chess in Washington Square Park.
I also never filled in all the Os in a book in an OCD rampage.
It is also the year that Hitler commenced The Final Solution, the extermination of the Jews.
Kubrick referenced the final solution inDr.
Jack Torrance writes on a German-made Adler typewriter that changes color.
The elevator that drips blood is a stake in the heart that is pumping blood from a massacred nation.
He was first clued in by the cans of Calumet baking powder which represent kept or broken treaties.
Blakemore grew up in Chicago, near the Calumet Harbor and knew that Calumet meant peace pipe.
The Minotaur was slain by Theseus.
The grounds of the Overlook Hotel contain a hedge-labyrinth.
Thats where Danny finally eludes his father after hes gone off the deep end.
The architecture of the hotel is also a maze itself.
Kind of like the window in the Bunker house onAll in the Family, but scarier.
And sexier, it gives the hotel manager an erection just to shake hands in its glow.
It could have been a Christmas parable.
It could have been a horror movie.
The good thing aboutRoom 237is that it presents all these theories and invites more.
It invites conversation and it is a cordial invite.
Im going to make them count how many times Danny says Redrum.
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Rating:
3.5 out of 5
