Room 237
Directed by Rodney Ascher
Five fans of THE SHINING explain their bizarre theories about the film's true meaning in this must-see doc about the passion Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film inspires in viewers. One fan thinks the film is about the slaughter of Native Americans, while another thinks it's about the supposedly faked Apollo 11 moon landing. But whether you agree with their outlandish conjectures (and no contradictory historical evidence is included) or not is less the point than the power cinematic creations have to lodge themselves in our brain and never let go. Contains violence and gore.
Five fans of THE SHINING explain their bizarre theories about the film's true meaning.
Cast: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns
Member Reviews
HORRID RUBBISH
It was sort of ok until the conspiracy theory kook said Kubrick faked the moon landings. I was like. . sorry i dont have time for mor0ns. Let me tell you fable about secrets: Three people can definitely keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.
Kind of boring.
When you take letterboxd too seriously. .
I actually found this entertaining but probably not for the reason most would. As stated by another reviewer this was supposed to show how impactful a movie can be on someone. How it can grip them and either show them something simple or go off the rails. They find hidden meaning where there is none. Create foolish and insane reasoning on how if you do this, just this specific way you can get this. That is what I liked about this film. The extreme cases when sanity breaks down and the tin foil hat comes out. I got a kick out of that but even then there is only so much I can watch before I have to stop.