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| Pictured: An artist's impression of some of the people featured in Room 237. |
Stanley Kubrick was and remains one of the titans of cinema. His films have endured not only the test of time, with early works like
Paths of Glory remaining as potent now as when they were released, but also the rigourous analysis of successive generations of film critics and academics. Most of that attention tends to be directed at
2001: A Space Odyssey, easily his most beguiling and evocative film, since it lends itself readily to being interpreted in dozens, if not hundreds, of different ways. Yet
Room 237, the documentary-cum-essay by Rodney Ascher shows that even
The Shining, Kubrick's seemingly more straightforward adaptation of Stephen King's novel, offers plenty of opportunity for interpretation, even if some of those interpretations tend to be pretty outlandish.
