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Stanley Kubrick is known for being a filmmaker and not a cryptographer.  However, Kubrick’s films have hidden “fractal” narratives with coded messages that Rob Ager has been deciphering through his amazing film analysis on his website Collative Learning and on Youtube.  In “Mazes, Mirrors, Deception and Denial: Chapter 15: This is our Gold Ballroom” Mr. Ager puts forth his theory that there is a sub-plot in The Shining that revolves around the gold standard...

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That is an interesting thought.   I have always liked Kubrick's films...Clockwork Orange in one of the all time greats.   I am going to check this out...

There's some truth to this.

I think that after 2001 Space Odyssey and Clockwork Orange, Kubrick got stuck in a rut creatively. He tried that terrible period drama movie, which was all about the oil painting style visuals and not much else. The Shining was an attempt to do something different again, to tell the history of post-colonial North America, using a horror movie as a bed in which to implant the hidden narrative subliminally. It was so subliminal that no-one noticed at the time the movie came out, or for years after (I always thought it was the most boring, unscary horror movie I'd seen). So it's arguably getting into the territory that modern art has, because you can get over-interpretive when it comes to metaphorical storytelling (like the "proof that Kubrick faked the Apollo 11 footage in a London film studio" stuff, maybe he did, but there is no such proof).

So he does make all these references to the history of the USA in The Shining, you can't pretend it's all a coincidence. But I don't know whether he's making political or revelatory statements by doing that, although I'm going to have to watch it again one day to see for myself. I'd like to try to figure what part the picture of Jack with Woodrow Wilson is supposed to play, as I not sure this is just being deliberately cryptic like I did when I saw the movie before.

Haha, great analysis :)
I think that great artists always present their work in a form that can be seen as an "empty canvas". Something that the viewer can project his/her own thought and fantasy on. Best pieces of art always have many many translations with different meanings. And I think that most of the Kubrick films are great pieces of art. And I disagree that "Eyes wide shut" didn't live up to his potential. To me, it was one of his best works! To me, it explained how mysticism works in the modern world :)

I think you mean empty movie screen

this Rob Ager video explains
pt I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P95NWAHWLrc

pt II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_o6SWCfEM

very true

Ehh, no, I ment what I ment :)
But nice to see other people projecting their thoughts onto this canvas!

I really didn't understand what this post was about. Could you explain?