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Saturday, 6 April 2013

ROOM 237 [2013]

A variety of conspiracy theorists (or a bunch of nutty bunnies as I like to call them) dissect Stanley Kubrick's classic horror film The Shining in Rodney Ascher's fascinating documentary, Room 237.
Broken up into 9 segments, these fanatics bring up some interesting points & ideas as to what it all means and some completely ludicrous theories are tossed into the mix as well.  It's strangely executed, never showing any of the speaker's faces and instead opts to edit in clips from the film and other Kubrick works to go along with the subject matter at hand, which makes for some humorous moments featuring Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut.  Even if they're all wrong (which I suspect they might be) you can't help but admire the love and obsession these folks have for film.

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