Can we have a "The Shining" thread?
I recently saw
"Room 237" and was pretty blown away at how crazy people have become about this movie.
I always thought it was one of Kubrick's weakest, but upon watching it again a couple of times, I actually really like it. The only thing I never understood was the whole reincarnation thing, both of Jack and Charles/Delbert Grady.
How has he always been there, yet is there again? This is the only mystery I found in the film.
>>62726588
The idea is that something is left behind when something happens, like burnt toast as the literal magic negro explains it. Jack was always a part of the hotel because he would eventually be there, and he would always be a part of the hotel because he was there. He wasn't reincarnated, he was just associated with the hotel throughout time due to his significance to it. At least that's my understanding.
>>62726685
But Kubrick literally said he was reincarnated. I thought the same thing you did at first.
But there are other clues, like when he meets Delbert Grady who has no recollection of being caretaker, and when Wendy is bringing Jack breakfast and he says he felt like he had been there before, like he knew what was around every corner.
>>62726588
>a "The Shining"
please next time say a thread about The Shining or put a trigger warning to spare my autism
>>62726750
I don't think that my grammar was improper.
a nigger?
Another thing, the first time that Jack goes to the bar, he has no money, but when he comes back, he does. I have never seen this explained except by crazy Rob Ager.
>>62726588
i think we may have to accept that this movie doesn't necessarily make sense but is still fucking great.
>>62726878
Not unlikely he brought cash with him for the long stay. Maybe he left money in his room. No use for it aside from the drive to and from, sure, but there are far more pressing mysteries
>>62728378
Watch the movie. He goes to check out room 237, tells Wendy there was nothing there, goes back to the ball room and suddenly has money. There was no time lapsed in between.
>>62728459
I just might have to. What I didn't catch in the film was who exactly that woman in the washroom was, or the reasoning behind grossing Jack out aside from maybe shocking audiences.
The Shining is playing on Sundance channel right now. Wendy just found his manuscript
This scene always freaks me out
>>62728604
She is a woman who OD'ed after an affair gone wrong in the book.
Her turning into an old hag plays on the theme of past/present in the movie.
>>62726750
sounds like you've got a "The Shining" problem
>>62726748
If Jack was re-incarnated he wasn't re-incarnated from Grady, he re-incarnated from his 1910's self that's on the picture, that's pretty easy to figure out.
Jack was already alive by the time Grady died, that's not how re-incarnation works.
>>62728761
I don't know if I was unclear, but I meant that Charles Grady was the reincarnation of Delbert Grady, just as Jack was the reincarnation of Mr. Torrence.
>>62728604
When I saw the young girl naked for the first time before she turned into this I popped 14 boners, 9 of them black, including the second biggest blackest boner alive.
>>62729041
>>62728696
spare me please, faggots
>2015
>people don't realize the shining is about jack being a minotaur
>2015
>people don't remember the incredibly phallic imagery of a book being near a man's waist in a shot.
>>62726588
>I always thought it was one of Kubrick's weakest
>>62728847
>>62728761
So it must be that whatever happened to their past incarnation that caused a piece to be left behind, causes their future incarnations to be drawn to the hotel?
>>62730676
>but upon watching it again a couple of times, I actually really like it
He realized he was wrong, why can't you?
Wendy...light of my life...
>>62730739
She did a good job of being an insufferable cunt. I'd have tried to murder the bitch too
>>62730739
The original Frogfu
