“The Shining,” directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1980, is a film filled with layers of complexity. I look at it and I feel it is filled full of holes, but that is when you look at it logically and I don’t think this or indeed any other of Kubrick’s films are about logic. They are films, not TV so the emphasis is on subconscious emotion they create feelings but like abstract art you don’t know why. That is isn’t in the creator’s intention but it comes through anyhow. I don’t believe Kubrick knew what was going on but instead he just felt what to do.
In that respect then he is led by the subconscious, which is an area of the mind millions of times bigger than the tiny conscious and much more than the tiny conscious.
Being emotion led is a classic sign of the difference between film and TV and in that respect Kubrick is a master.
