A review on Kubrick's "The Shining"

Kubrick did a marvelous job in giving one of the most spine thrilling horror flicks, as usual his forte being extremely strong and at the same time subliminal images, and ofcourse Jack Nicholson. Interestingly the movie holds the record for most takes for a scene in a film...125 times...

While it would have been great as a horror flick i ended up finding this very interesting interpretation of his work on this website.

Excerpts

And in a final stroke of brilliance, Kubrick physically
melds the movie audience leaving his film with the ghostly
revelers in the photograph. As the credits roll, the soundtrack
ends, and we hear the 1920s audience applaud, and then the gabble
of that audience talking among themselves - the same sound the
crowd of moviegoers itself is probably making as it leaves the
theater. It is the sound of people moving out of one stage of
consciousness into another. The moviegoers are largely unaware of
this soundtrack, and this reflects their unawareness that they’ve
just seen a movie about themselves, about what people like them
have done to the American Indian and to others. Thus to its very
last foot, this film is trying to break through the complacency of
its audience, to tell it, "You were, are, the people at the
Overlook Ball." The opening music, over the traveling aerial shots
of a tiny yellow Volkswagon penetrating the magnificent American
wilderness, is the "Dies Irae" ("Day of Wrath"), part of the major
funeral mass of the European Roman Catholic Church. This movie is
a funeral, among other things. And it was Hitler’s Germany,
another genocidal culture, that first produced the Volkswagen. At
the end of the movie, in the climactic chase in the Overlook Maze,
the moral maze of America and of all mankind in which we are
chased by the sins of our fathers ("Danny, I’m coming. You can’t
get away. I’m right behind you"), the little boy Danny escapes by
retracing his own steps (an old Indian trick) and letting his
father blunder past.

A 13 minute docu on Kubrick as an artist