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I should've stopped watching at Minotaur

posted 11 years ago by dalibor-jokic
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Oh, it's not a skier it's a Minotaur LOL
Thank you but no thank you, this kind of high school movie project, with giggling idiots as narrators should never be getting this much attention.

I think they don't deserve to even be in the same room as a DVD copy of The Shining, let alone make a "revealing documentary" interpreting it.

Waste of my time. Thank god I only torrented it.

"Sure. It's been there a while, it's still got Anthony Eden's lipstick on the bottle."

[–] Evil_Flip 11 years ago

I think it's kinda interesting to see people take these leaps in interpreting film/art in that way. And I think that's what the room 237 is about. It's not about what The Shining is about but how people interpret the movie.

I love how these people go all out in seeing stuff that was probably never intended. Like where the guy plays the footage back and forth at the same time, he sees all kinds of overlapping stuff, but he fails to see that Kubrick just frames a lot of his shots the same (wide with the action in the middle).

[–] Suriname86 9 years ago

The skier being a minotaur is debatable; though, I do admit, the poster seems framed very deliberately. But, I do believe there is an intentional minotaur/maze theme in that Kubrick focuses on the maze throughout the film and Jack chases Danny like a raging bull in a minotaur fashion throughout the maze.

[–] mistamajestyk 9 years ago

Some of the people's commentaries on the film seemed more like ramblings from a mental patient who went off their medication.
Film analysis on Kubrick's work is interesting and noteworthy, and I understand that everyone sees things differently, but these interpretations seemed to be reaching, quite a bit.

"Oh, yeah, one more thing....where can I get a pizza?."