I see a theme thought the movie of Stanley Kubrick expressing the idea of people doing bad things and having them be forgotten. When Wendy believes that Jack hurt Danny and accuses him of strangling their boy Jack gets furious and starts drinking again. That is really the one ‘crime’ seen that is brought up again with negativity. Wendy bringing it up made the situation worse and sped up Jack going crazy. There are many other hints of things being forgotten within the film. When Jack talks to Delbert Grady about killing his wife he acts at first as if he didn’t remember. If the shinning is really about Native Americans then the people forgot about the men that came in and took over a sacred land from people. In the book (spoiler) Mr. Hallorann lives and helps save Danny and Wendy, obviously Kubrick intentionally killed him off one idea behind that decision would be that a character that the audience believes is going to save the day is killed off then not brought up or mentioned at all, therefore being forgotten. I also realized that when Jack and Wendy toured the outside of the hotel they were wearing brown not red white and blue, the other scene where they are wearing brown tones is when Jack tries to kill everyone.

            When watching room 237 I came to the belief that Kubrick purposefully had so much chaos going on in this movie. I believe that he wanted people to question it and try to solve the maze in whatever way the audience decided to. Additionally the more confusion in the movie the more people magnify what’s going on and look for something off getting almost trapped in the movie looking for answers watching it 5 times in a row. Much like Jack getting trapped within the hotel so did the audience. Another thing I found interesting was when the move was played both forwards backwards at the same time and how certain important scenes overlapped example: when Danny goes into jacks room asking if he is going to hurt him and then having Jack and the old caretaker telling him to get rid of his family