Film psychology THE SHINING spatial awareness and set design 1of2

How Stanley Kubrick used Escher-styled spacial awareness & set design anomalies to disorientate viewers of his horror classic The Shining. This is a must for serious Kubrick fans and psychology students. Written, narrated and edited by Rob Ager

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[M2HFilms]

No wonder Kubrick took years off in between movies....he probably spent all that time just planning scenes/ideas/shots like the ones presented here....not that it's a bad thing at all...it's actually very interesting.

[robag88]

I've read reports that Kubrick would hang around on set for hours on his own. I don't think he was sleeping. A Kubrick ghost lol

[C1NEMAGIC]

Wow, I know Kubrick was a brilliant genius... but I think most of it are just set mistakes!

[robag88]

Don't forget the deliberate spatial impossibilities theme was admitted by the exec-producer a year after I posted this video. See caption near start of video.

[munchies2001]

was he trying to mess with your head or are they merely mistakes in filming i think just movie mistakes.

[robag88]

Watch video and pay attention to the update captions :)

[robag88]

Very few films have even a tenth of the complexity and depth of a Kubrick film. I see most movies as dull, simplistic assembly line product.

[robag88]

Lol what a dumb comment. I earn half my living from making these vids - it is a job. And I have a part time job outside of film. And I have lots of friends and other hobbies. How much do you earn from trolling?

[RobL52683]

But yet here you are watching videos and commenting on them several times. So you're watching someone who doesn't have a life?.....What does that say about you then?

[Kit Morse]

i agree with jan jiska's comment below. @2:47, couldnt there just be an exterior door leading to the outside rather than an "impossible hallway"???

[JanJiska]

At 2.47 - couldn't there have been an external door where the ???s are?

At 5.54 - couln't one of the doors lead to a small cupboard?

At 8.39 - it also looks like Wendy and Danny have switched sides?

[sarchasmata]

What if the [doors] [] are not really doors [] but are in actuality {the [Monolithic] ghosts} only represented to Danny as brown doors; all ready to open the shining within him.

The windows are the boy's way to look into the shining, as the father smashes a door the mother pushes him through window, changing it into his own small door that passes him into a private labyrinth.

is it ironic that the hotel is called overlook and most audience members overlooked the spacial ques.

[Izlandzadi14]

The point is not to point out mistakes but to see the way that Kubrik tries to subliminally disorient the audience with spacial impossibilities. It's just interesting, that's all.

[Izlandzadi14]

Yeah, those aren't mistakes. They specifically built doors with nothing but wall behind them. How the fuck could that be just a mistake? Especially with all the attention kubrik pays to the way his movies are made. He would catch big set mistakes like that.

[mojangles28]

and Wendy mentions she will have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find her way back in the kitchen

[OnlyForAngels]

You have issues. Seriously. You'll look back on your life and say "WHY the hell did I waste hours and hours of my life on a bloody movie when I could have been getting laid or going to football games with me mates? Hello Guvna?? Have a spot a tea and best think about it.