Stanley Kubrick created a movie designed to "shine" a gnostic and enlightening illumination on us. Without getting into spoilers let's just say the documentary Room 327 draws our attention to crucial details in the film The Shining that reveals a deep commentary on the horror hidden in the soul of modern man. The horrific genocide of the American Indian, the bloodthirsty corruption and competition of the gold rush and America's "Manifest Destiny", the horror of the Holocaust, the horror of child sexual and physical abuse... ( I can hear Marlon in Apocalypse Now: the horror, the horror)
The Devil is US kids; America is built on blood and as Chaucer says; "The blood will out" We are bloodthirsty rats in a cage my friends, forced into competition with each other to the death and Stanley Kubrick saw it all and unflinchingly threw it back in our faces.
I have always loved The Shining, it creates such a subtle but by the end powerful sense of horror that no other film has ever really had the same cumulative psychic effect on me that I can think of.
The moviegoers next to me, a hip L.A. couple who probably just wanted a place to make out and come down after their week of soul-crushing ass kissing work were tittering and making snorts of derision throughout the entire documentary. I understand; it's easier to laugh at these ideas and those who present them than to face the reality of what Stanley was getting at. To be sure there are also some crazy ideas in the film and I am not convinced at all that Stanley aided in the faking of the moon landing footage, that is just too much conspiracy to even comprehend.
It all shows though what a monumental work of art this film and all Stanley's films are (maybe excluding Barry Lyndon which puts me to sleep). You just can't help but think cinema has dried up and died in modern times when you see the depths of work and subtle detail and research which have gone into making The Shining the poetic psychological masterpiece it is. It's an Occult Masterwork strong enough to support a million meme's and points of gnostic illuminating light.
Blood sacrifice and deviant sex pop up all over the movie... Are we talking about the supposed "Illuminati" or hidden upper echelons of society and what goes on behind their closed doors, a theme Stanley seems to have returned to in Eyes Wide Shut? Are we talking about Archontic or Biblical "Watcher" type beings who have kept us enslaved and fooled us by posing as Gods and feeding off of negative sexual violent emotional energy? Are we talking about an aspect of ourselves that we keep denied like Jung's "Shadow"?
This is what makes Great Art; layers upon layers...
See the movie and suspend your disbelief long enough to grasp some of what Stanley was hinting at, the only thing you can lose is your mind, and there is all the Gnosis in the world to gain... as the man said; "the truth will set you free..." Oh and of course I saw the movie at 2:30 and sat in seat 23!!!!!!!
