What We Overlook In The Shining

There is a way out of the obsessive and paranoid world of interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film. All you have to do to find it is become an adult.

Kubrick has made a film uncanny on two levels. Superficially, it is about the involuntary repetition of a specific event. That event, however, is ultimately not repeated. Danny rejects his visions of the past, and Torrance sees visions of a completely different past. The inconsistencies only point to the real level of horror. Kubrick has made uncanny ma…