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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  Film & Animation

[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?

[MsAlyssaMaria]

2:43 Maybe there was a door there leading outside, that's how they came through that little hallway. Just my guess.

[ralphredimix]

This shit was all done on purpose. Whether you realize it or not, your eyes are always collecting information around you, and your brain knows what things are supposed to "feel" like and as soon as it starts collecting information it knows is technically impossible it starts to give you that "eerie" feeling.

[Horst York]

this was one of the most expensive film sets at that time. it took kubrick (known to be a pedantic perfectionist) and his team about five years to develop the whole scenery. i mean, we're not talking about any B-movie here

[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.