Room 237 (2012) on Netflix
NR20121h 42mDocumentary
Five people who have studied Stanley Kubrick's The Shining set out their theories about what it hides. They find clues in carpets, baking powder tins and the number 237.
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Plot summary
Room 237 is made of nine segments, each taking up a different element of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and of the voices of people who have puzzled over it. Clips from that film and from Kubrick's other work accompany what they say. One narrator holds that the Overlook's site was a burial ground for Native Americans and reads the Calumet baking powder tins visible in the background as a sign of American imperialism. A second maintains that Kubrick filmed the footage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, citing the Apollo 11 sweater Danny wears and a carpet whose pattern he likens to the launch pad. A third treats the hedge maze as a labyrinth from the Minotaur myth, and a fourth ties the film to the Holocaust, the subject of an unrealized Kubrick project.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Room 237 (2012)
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Room 237 includes a segment where The Shining is superimposed over itself in reverse, running forwards and backwards at once to create parallels, such as Danny walking in on his father and the previous caretaker discussing Danny's murder.
