Comments on: Cannes Review: ‘Room 237’ An Outstanding, Fascinating & Funny Exploration & Celebration Of ‘The Shining’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-20120521/ Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kasia https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-20120521/#comment-117800 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:56 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-251939/#comment-117800 I'm surprised that you got convinced with the arguments about a reference to any kind of slaughter there. I admit there are a couple of brilliant observations in the film, but wouldn't say the interpretations there are to be taken seriously. Typewriter as a hidden sign of Holocaust metaphor? The Native Americans' symbols all over the place – of course, but not because Kubrick so meticulously placed them to convey some hidden message, but because obviously the designers of the hotel would incorporate such symbols there in Colorado as a "local flavor". The film is brilliant and amusing but because it questions the limits of interpretations, I'd say it mocks everything that was and will be ever said about the film and not only that one.

]]> By: Richard Schitz https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-20120521/#comment-117801 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:56 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-251939/#comment-117801 Dear playlist:

Proof-reading is your friend.

Sincerely,

Dick Schitz

]]> By: Christian https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-20120521/#comment-117802 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:56 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-251939/#comment-117802 This is so unfair. I'm literally writing my exam in film theory on The Shining and I'm referencing Bill Blakemore a lot! 🙂 It's truly the deepest horror film I've ever come across. Masterpiece.

]]> By: Arch https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-20120521/#comment-117803 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:56 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-room-237-an-outstanding-fascinating-funny-exploration-celebration-of-the-shining-251939/#comment-117803 Really really looking forward to see this… since Sundance. Any news/rumor about a distribution deal down there ?

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