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- The film is based on the novel by Emma Donoghue and takes inspiration from the real-life story of Elisabeth Fritzl. The strong relationship between the actors, Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, adds depth to the film, as it portrays their escape and struggle to adapt to the outside world.
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Jan 29, 2012 · “Room 237” — the title is a reference to a haunted room in the hotel — ends with no clear consensus on just what “The Shining” actually means. How could it?
Apr 3, 2013 · “Room 237” could easily be (mis)taken for a comedic satire of fervent movie-geekery if the theories it presents — some more cockeyed than others — hadn’t appeared on the Internet years ago. That’s where Ascher found the inspirations for his documentary.
Feb 16, 2021 · There was an intentional change related to Room 237 in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of The Shining from the Stephen King book.
Room 237 is told entirely through voice-overs by people with theories about The Shining. According to one, the film is about the cultural assimilation of Native Americans, [9] because, according to the story, the hotel was built on a Native American burial mound; and there is imagery throughout the film associated with the American West.
What makes Room 237 truly revelatory, however, has less to do with The Shining than the myth of Kubrick as a looming, monolithic master filmmaker—and the cult of auteurism in general.
Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 is an inventive hard to categorize film which turns the difficult trick of becoming its subject. Ostensibly a documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining , Room 237 is also a new form of film criticism, one which charts a different course than the standard film criticism.
Apr 12, 2013 · Ascher’s first full-length documentary, Room 237 explores the weird world of alternate Shining interpretations, talking to five men and women with often wildly divergent ideas about what...
