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That's right folks.

And DON'T take this film so seriously. Not only I found it totally entertaining, but the film works as a stimulant to the viewing & interpretation of art in all its glory and mystery. One realizes how Kubrick was such a master "painter" in cinema. This film inspires you to look at the details in art & think about what they might mean, which opens a whole word of possibilities, might even inspire you to go create something yourself.

I appreciated that the explainers weren't shown. It would've been too distracting. That way you were able to really listen to their interpretations and concentrate enough on the images in question.

I didn't have to believe any or all of the explanations on the film. The wonder, the FUN of it is seeing how an image (and its details) make a connection with something within yourself, and what that reveals about you. It is in cases like these that I get to understand what they say about art: that it is a mirror.
The last part really summed it all for me. When they said they were going to run THE SHINING backwards & forwards at the same time on the screen, I was ready to roll my eyes. But then, as we saw the resulting combination of images being slowed down or frozen on the screen and what they thought they were really "seeing", I had to smile. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I believe that was indeed Hitler's moustache. What I'm saying is that I appreciated the "art installation" approach here, JUST because whatever image was created, it makes you THINK about something. It tingles your subconscious.
Frank Zappa, that musical genius, had a term (whose name I forgot, sorry) for mashing two different musical pieces together. Have any of you tried that? The interesting thing is what the resulting "music" "sounds" to you...

When I saw the big faces with the windows for mouths, I thought about the surrealists, Magritte specifically. Heck, I even thought about Dali (whose dream sequence for Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND is sampled in the film).
I gotta go re-read my books on them & massage my brain over their paintings.

For THAT I'm grateful for this film.




"Everything matters!" - Susan Sontag