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The Shining 1980
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In the closing seconds of the film, we see a picture of a 1920s party with jack in the middle hanging on the wall of the Overlook Hotel. This picture gives the impression that jack has been there in some capacity for years and that he might be imprisoned there forever.
The film’s themes of cyclical patterns and recurrence lend credibility to this perspective. The hotel is shown to be a sort of time loop whereby the past is perpetually…Translated from by
