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New The SHiNiNG interpretation
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It is like i made that last post in the shining thread and you ignored it.
here we go again.
Kubrick shot almost EVERYTHING symmetrical. Any frame of a kubrick movie can match up to another frame because kubrick was obessesed with SYMMETRY, not trying to hide some message you have to go back and look at
and, Kubrick had a shooting schedule, which he took longer than needed, but he was not trying to match up one scene to another. if he really were, he would do some takes and look at the dailies and see if it matched up to a previous scene and then get back to take more takes. non sense.
look up "kubrick symmetry" on google images once
Kubrick seemed to use symmetry so that he could overlap images.
http://kdk12.tumblr.com/post/47006255886/minotaur-table-gates-in-the-shining
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Being that I am in the middle of a snowmageddon I thought it would be an ideal time to give The SHiNiNG another watch.
This time around a scene that stuck out to me was the infamous "Here's Johnny" scene.
Prior to "Here's Johnny" Danny while in a trance (Tony mode) grabs a knife to prepare for Jack's arrival and writes REDRUM on the bathroom door which reflected in the mirror spells MURDER.
The door that REDRUM is written on is what caught my eye this time around. As seen below the door has an obvious inverted cross design on it.
What also makes this interesting is that "REDRUM" is "MURDER" spelled backwards and it is written on an upside down or backwards cross or crucifix.
Maybe I am the only one but when I hear Red Rum I think of red wine. One of Jesus's miracles was turning water into wine. If you invert the cross it becomes an anti-religious symbol and RED RUM backwards is Murder which is self explanatorily anti-religious.
As silly as it sounds we have a Holy door that reflected in a mirror becomes an unholy door. As with all things SHiNiNG we are brought back to doubles and reflections.
When Jack chops through the REDRUM door with the axe he does so almost with a surgical grace removing the right top panel away. In doing this he appears to be removing negative space from the inverted crucifix design making it more noticeable.
When he puts his hand through this space to unlock the door Wendy cuts him with the knife she got from Danny. Jack can't unlock the door for fear of Wendy cutting him again and so he goes back to chopping at the door with the axe. Again with surgical precision he hacks out the top left panel of the door removing more negative space from the door and revealing even more of the crucifix.
The top panels when removed from the door by Jack's axe look oddly enough like the elevator design and the Gemini symbol representing the murdered twins.
I can't find a good image of the door with both panels hacked out but if anyone does please post it.
Could this door represent good and evil in a religious sense?
Could it represent the duality of man?
Or is it just a bloody door?
This time around a scene that stuck out to me was the infamous "Here's Johnny" scene.
Prior to "Here's Johnny" Danny while in a trance (Tony mode) grabs a knife to prepare for Jack's arrival and writes REDRUM on the bathroom door which reflected in the mirror spells MURDER.
The door that REDRUM is written on is what caught my eye this time around. As seen below the door has an obvious inverted cross design on it.
What also makes this interesting is that "REDRUM" is "MURDER" spelled backwards and it is written on an upside down or backwards cross or crucifix.
Maybe I am the only one but when I hear Red Rum I think of red wine. One of Jesus's miracles was turning water into wine. If you invert the cross it becomes an anti-religious symbol and RED RUM backwards is Murder which is self explanatorily anti-religious.
As silly as it sounds we have a Holy door that reflected in a mirror becomes an unholy door. As with all things SHiNiNG we are brought back to doubles and reflections.
When Jack chops through the REDRUM door with the axe he does so almost with a surgical grace removing the right top panel away. In doing this he appears to be removing negative space from the inverted crucifix design making it more noticeable.
When he puts his hand through this space to unlock the door Wendy cuts him with the knife she got from Danny. Jack can't unlock the door for fear of Wendy cutting him again and so he goes back to chopping at the door with the axe. Again with surgical precision he hacks out the top left panel of the door removing more negative space from the door and revealing even more of the crucifix.
The top panels when removed from the door by Jack's axe look oddly enough like the elevator design and the Gemini symbol representing the murdered twins.
I can't find a good image of the door with both panels hacked out but if anyone does please post it.
Could this door represent good and evil in a religious sense?
Could it represent the duality of man?
Or is it just a bloody door?
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While looking for images of the Redrum door I came across this still of Jack in which he has his right hand pointed up towards the light or illumination and his left side is in the darkened portion of the shot.
Notice how the Baphomet representation has his right hand pointing to an illuminated moon and his left hand pointing down to a moon that looks to be darkened or in eclipse.
The clear division of light from dark that divides Jack's right from left in the screenshot is interesting in how perfect it is.
Notice how the Baphomet representation has his right hand pointing to an illuminated moon and his left hand pointing down to a moon that looks to be darkened or in eclipse.
The clear division of light from dark that divides Jack's right from left in the screenshot is interesting in how perfect it is.
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The Shining is the GOAT movie to watch while snowed in.
But all these theories are overblown imo. Kubrick was an artist that left things subjective on purpose. Trying to assign objective meaning to the movie is just reaching.
But all these theories are overblown imo. Kubrick was an artist that left things subjective on purpose. Trying to assign objective meaning to the movie is just reaching.
