Are The Shining interpretations pure buls***?

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2012)

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. Death he's ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhousenot the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left
Charles Bukowski
There is a lot of analysis out there of this film. Every Kubrick film is scrutinized endlessly. If you look for essays about his work, its meanings and implications, you'll have a fruitful outcome. This one in particular has been more dissected than an alien in Area 51 (before all the "respect the alien rights" activists started fussing around). Jonathan Romney believes it to be "an Oedipal struggle not just between generations but between Jack's culture of the written word and Danny's culture of images"; Bill Blakemore thinks it is all about the Indians: "The Shining ends with an extremely long camera shot moving down a hallway in the Overlook, reaching eventually the central photo among 21 photos on the wall. The caption reads: 'Overlook Hotel-July 4th Ball- 1921.' The answer to this puzzle, is that most Americans overlook the fact that July Fourth was no ball, nor any kind of Independence day, for native Americans; that the weak American villain of the film is the re- embodiment of the American men who massacred the Indians in earlier years; that Kubrick is examining and reflecting on a problem that cuts through the decades and centuries".
What I really think it is about? A man whose wife drives him crazy.
When Wendy enters the room where Jack is typing, I start to empathize with him. She asks if everything is okay. She is sweet, affectionate, loving and caring. Don't you just hate that? Don't you just feel like bludgeoning her to death with a rusty lump hammer or maybe cut her in little pieces with a fireman's ax?
Her pale sickly skin, horse teeth, oily hair, her puke-provoking sweetness, aren't those reasons enough to not only wanting to hurt her; but just bash her brains in, right the f*** in? I'm not saying those motives would suffice in a court of law, but they might give the judge some pause.
After I established that the movie premise has nothing to do with Indian massacres or oedipal struggles I'll start the movie analysis in itself:
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