What is this film REALLY about?

its a subtle response to Jan Troells film the New Land

A spooky hotel. Duh!

>All those fugly women

>>87663235

Those aren't really women.

Kubrick faking the moon landing, native american genocide, the holocaust or something.

>>87663006
Lucifer's fall

>>87663815
elaborate

>>87663006
Kubrick said himself that he took a page from David Lynch.
It's intentionally vague so you can come to your own conclusions. I see it as the hotel itself is an evil spirit that's been collecting the souls of its guests for years.

>>87663868
only Kubrick knew to leave many paths wide open for you to make your own mind up: haunted hotel, american indian revenge, domestic abuse, a good writer inserting himself into a book, a man gone insane from drink.

Lynch only has two ways, what he thinks and whatever the fuck you think even if it's flawed.

>>87664206
They both ultimately lead the same direction for me.

>>87663850
quick version, Paradise Lost is nonfiction
and a lot of absolute cunts know this

>>87663006

Kubrick taking an artistic crack at horror, and succeeding. That's all, really. The intentional continuity goofs and inconsistent imagery serve to disorient the viewer, a part of the art.

It seems to me to be fairly clear that the hotel /seduces/ Jack, for whatever reason - to draw him in to be among the other ghosts. /tv/'s molestation theories are interesting but I never actually came up with them in younger years, and I still don't incline toward them personally, preferring instead to see that the place is literally haunted. For example, I accept uncritically that it was a ghost that unlatched the pantry. As the haunting reaches its zenith, it becomes sensible even to Wendy, who doesn't shine - although she did see "the crazy woman" earlier as well. I wonder what the relationships between the Grady(s) and Jack are - lately I've been thinking that they are all reincarnations of each other, albeit perhaps in different /aspects/, and the same man, in different incarnations, just keeps returning to the same place.

>>87663687
Don't forget impossible windows

>>87663006
I imagine it's about the same thing as the source novel.