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Nov 16, 2014ManMachine rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
In 2013 Leon Vitali (who served as a personal assistant to director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of 1980's "The Shining") was asked to give his candid opinion regarding Rodney Ascher's documentary called "Room 237". This film, which came out 32 years after The Shining's original release, features five faceless people who offer their own personal interpretations of The Shining, a movie which they all adamantly claim holds all sorts of truly fascinating and mind-boggling "hidden" messages and meanings in its imagery and its storyline. Well - To make a long story short - In just 3 small words Vitali quickly summed up Room 237 in a literal nutshell - (And I quote) - "It's pure gibberish!" - (End of quote). And, you know what? - If that's how Vitali views Room 237, then, hey, that's good enough for me, as well. Now, I don't want to get too carried away here with my criticism of Room 237, but I do want to say that this is the sort of documentary that (if you're insane) will make perfect sense to you. It places you right inside that kind of illogical mentality. Room 237 works solely on the assumption that director Stanley Kubrick (just like "God") worked in mysterious ways - And, with that, he made The Shining not as horror-movie entertainment but as a seemingly endless barrage of metaphors (for this and for that and for just about everything under the sun). Ho-hum!