Deep. Symbolic. A multi-layered Classic.

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2014)

I'm thankful for the liberties Kubrik took with the adaptation of King's novel. It made it less corny and deeper than the original story. In fact, it stands proudly on its own while it delivers a multi-layered tour de force into America's darker beginnings.
Make no mistake: it IS about the Native Americans' genocide. Kings' story being just one of the layers to this movie.
The whole movie is a maze. From the roads that take the Torrence family (and the viewer) to the "Overlook Hotel", to the Hotel's architecture it self, to the outside maze, to the family's relationship of abuse, to the endless symbolic imagery that populates almost every single frame.
The acting is superb and memorable, the Sound Track's eery and haunting (great use of Bartók, Ligeti and Panderecki) and the overall scenery is mesmerizing, to say the least.
There is a foreboding sense right from the beginning and a sense of "unescapable" fate through out the entire movie.
Indeed, one of the few movies that still resist to the passage of time.