Wss it ever confirmed anywhere that any of these interpretations...
were truly intended by Kubrick or are people simple seeing what they want to see?
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truly intended by Kubrick or are people simple seeing what they want to see?
You're making a distinction there not many people seem to care about.
Still, if they had been in possession of any proof regarding intent I guess they would have said so in the film. Myself, I consider much of it wild speculation.
Think of the native American thing, for example. The hotel was supposed to be built on an indian burial ground apparently in King's book already, and Kubrick obviously picked that up and augmented it with some more indian motives. But is that enough to understand the entire film as being about genocide? Rather not.
Fact is, the only parts I found illuminating were those concerning the set design, like the "impossible window" and such. Where I still differ as to why the set was built in the way it was, namely largely due to limited space in my view.
Remember the part for example where some guy was raving about "there can't be real rooms behind these doors?" Well, what did he expect? An entire hotel built on a soundstage? Of course was a major part of it fake.
Really, I thought this film was a great opportunity wasted.
I agree with pretty much everything you stated.
Kubrick was a brilliant man to be sure but much of that came across as personal interpretation more than anything else, like the speaker who said there was an image of Kubrick in the clouds after his directing credit passes out of frame, I paused it there and looked for several minutes and saw no such image.
The parts I liked were the same as yours regarding the sets, particularly the 3D maps they presented, what they fail to realize, in regards to how confusing they are, is that this is how sets are. I mean look at sitcoms, usually when there are stairs they lead absolutely nowhere lol.
I also really liked the superimposing of the film running forwards and backwards, more seeing what they want to see but interesting nonetheless.
I won't even get into the guy who actually believes there is proof in the film that the Apollo moon landings were faked lol, that was a colossal waste of ten minutes of valuable running time.
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