Stanley Kubrick once said The Killing (1956) was his first mature film. He was twenty‑eight — former chess prodigy, Look magazine photographer, and maker of short newsreels — already addicted to craft, to structure, to the discipline of seeing the world as a system. Maybe the title speaks to more than the heist it describes. Maybe the “killing” is…
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The Power of Your Story in ‘The Shining’
Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is utterly eerie for its baroque uncertainty. As its three main characters are hopelessly isolated inside its vast and ominous setting, the movie constantly unnerves us with the increasing unreliability of their respective viewpoints. The result is alternatively baffling and terrifying to the very end. Noticing again how cold and distant…
The Power of Your Story 