Kubrick lost his goal.

Rating: 3/10 (19 November 2019)

Kubrick made a big mistake at Barry Dingdon. He made a movie that only people who familiar with camerawork can enjoy. A general movie fan would have bored and obliged hellish time. So he lost his job. And he made this mistake again on his first chance in 5 years. I have a hard time understanding why he made this mistake in this important job. In this case, it is natural for the director to take serious the risk that he will never be able to work again.
That's why director carefully create a movie story by popular originals. But what is this Shining script? Most of the important backbone episode in the original has been deleted. So you can only enjoy the first half. The atmosphere of the first half of this house is eerie. The mood that scary things will happen in the future. Anxiety that this person may be crazy. The camera work and direction of drawing them are very interesting. However, since no human drama is written, what you see when the fear of the finally comes true brought you get bored. Probably, if the story explain it, the eerie atmosphere will be gone. Eeriness is lost by explaining.
However, it was a boring movie because it was not explained. I think Kubrick should have made another plan instead of sticking to this script because it is an important work for the first time in five years.
After this movie, he seems to have recalled his past success. And again, he started shooting a story about people going crazy. And he became a director who could make only that kind, and he ended.