Rating of
1.5/4
Empty arguments.
memento_mori - wrote on 07/15/13
While I welcome any interpretation of what The Shining means, I have to admit that in this movie, I felt myself grow tired at several occasions of these fans reading unneeded stuff into the story that they actually didn't know much about.
Their reasons are viable and they seem like hardcore fans that have analyzed the movie countless times, but none of them really ever get to a point. One says: Oh, it's about the Holocaust. Another says: Oh, it's about Indians.
What?
Where in the movie did Kubrick send a message about native Indians? Okay, sure, there are many intentional gags and posters of Indians hanging on the wall and little items like that, but: SO WHAT?
Get to the point! Finish your reason! Tell me what you think it means and don't just say what you see like a child! INTERPRET!
Please excuse me for raging, but I hate an unfinished point.
Like I said, this movie has a good heap of ground material and observations to work off of, but it never goes anywhere. It's like a car that ignites, drives nowhere and turns off.
The way this movie was put together was pretty awful too. Frame for frame slow-motion for five minutes and even clips from Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, Paths of Glory, A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is unforgivable how much is spoiled in this movie, especially from 2001 and The Killing. We see the endings! Why?! We didn't need to! You're giving everything away!
It feels so sloppy and underclassed. There is a part where a person that's being interviewed goes on about a theory which was interesting, then hears his son crying in the other room, stops the footage and leaves us for ten seconds and comes back. Who does that?! Who edited this 'documentary'?!
His theory ended up being empty words, too.
People have hailed this as a highly-acclaimed documentary, and I don't understand why.
It's a collection of empty observations that the fans should keep to themselves if they won't even interpret the observations and I am still angry about the spoilers from other Kubrick movies.
It has nothing to show for itself. Lazy direction, fans full of themselves.
Despite spoiling everything from 2001 this film has no ambition whatsoever.
