The Shining
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I think the point of fascination with the Kubrick work is that he took a fairly standard story and instead of making film of it, he stripped it out and used it as a vehicle to carry a hidden 'other' story. Its the hidden other story that people are fascinated by, not the fact that its The Shining as Stephen King wrote it.
That documentary series seemed to me to present a bunch of fairly lame top level conspiracy style bits of fluff. The whole thing about the guy getting up from behind his desk for example, and appearing to have a huge erction when he shakes Jack Nicholson's hand... that's a load of shit. That guy makes a HUGE deal about how Kubrick must have spent ages getting the props make exactly right for that effect, and then uses that to pin up a potential hidden message about something else. Utter crap. Total coincidence that (to that one guy only) the desk tidy looked a tiny little bit like it might be an enormous horizontal totally rectangular phallus.
But... there is definitely some hidden stories int he film, and there's a lot more interesting speculation to be had on the internet that goes a lot deeper and into more compelling ideas than most of what that documentary says.
The Apollo moonlanding angle to it though. That's a pretty amazing theory.
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