This 🧵 thread covers the movie 'The Shining' directed by Stanley Kubrick, symbolic readings, interpretations, and various notes regarding the film.
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Card #01: 🔑🪞 REDRUM is the KEY
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🪓 REDRUM 🪞 MURDER As the audience we witness Danny writing 'REDRUM' onto the door. Wendy wakes up startled and looks in the mirror 🪞 seeing the reverse reflection spell out 'MURDER'. This is a critical aspect to 🔑 decoding the 🎞️ film. 📝 It's important to note Leonardo da Vinci used "mirror writing" for his personal notebooks, writing from right to left with reversed letters, which can only be read by holding the page up to a mirror. 🪞 This same type of 'mirror' cypher is used throughout the 🎞️ film. Many concepts within the film all have mirror 🪞 counterparts to Kubrick, his Wife, the moon 🚀🌖 missions, and real life public figures. This is a collection 📍 of all the various details compiled on the subject.
🪓 REDRUM 🪞 MURDER
As the audience we witness Danny writing 'REDRUM' onto the door. Wendy wakes up startled and looks in the mirror 🪞 seeing the reverse reflection spell out 'MURDER'. This is a critical aspect to 🔑 decoding the 🎞️ film.
📝 It's important to note Leonardo da Vinci used "mirror writing" for his personal notebooks, writing from right to left with reversed letters, which can only be read by holding the page up to a mirror.
🪞 This same type of 'mirror' cypher is used throughout the 🎞️ film. Many concepts within the film all have mirror 🪞 counterparts to Kubrick, his Wife, the moon 🚀🌖 missions, and real life public figures.
This is a collection 📍 of all the various details compiled on the subject.
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Card #02: 🔑🟥 Room 237 Key & NASA
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📍 The choice of RED and the rounded font on the Room 237 🔑 key are intentionally chosen because of their resemblance to the classic red logo used by NASA. 📍 The key fob for Room 237 has the letters 'ROOM NO' - a near anagram of 'Moon'. 🌙 ROOM NO = Moon Ro(ver) 📍 The number 237 was chosen because the average distance of the moon 🌙 in 1969 was 237,000 miles away from Earth. The Moon 🌙 is an average distance of about 238,900 miles from Earth. Because the Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle, this distance changes slightly every month. It ranges from about 225,623 miles at its closest point to 252,088 miles at its farthest point. The Moon 🌙 is also moving away from Earth at a very slow rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) each year. This gradual change happens because of tidal forces and the exchange of energy between Earth and the Moon.
📍 The choice of RED and the rounded font on the Room 237 🔑 key are intentionally chosen because of their resemblance to the classic red logo used by NASA.
📍 The key fob for Room 237 has the letters 'ROOM NO' - a near anagram of 'Moon'.
🌙 ROOM NO = Moon Ro(ver)
📍 The number 237 was chosen because the average distance of the moon 🌙 in 1969 was 237,000 miles away from Earth.
The Moon 🌙 is an average distance of about 238,900 miles from Earth. Because the Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle, this distance changes slightly every month. It ranges from about 225,623 miles at its closest point to 252,088 miles at its farthest point.
The Moon 🌙 is also moving away from Earth at a very slow rate of about 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) each year. This gradual change happens because of tidal forces and the exchange of energy between Earth and the Moon.
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Card #03: 👥🪞 Jack & Wendy / Kubrick & Christiane
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Kubrick intentionally styled 🪞 the characters of Jack & Wendy after him and his wife. This is one of the 🔑 keys to decoding the underlying narrative of the film. As soon as you realize this is an admission the pieces s
Kubrick intentionally styled 🪞 the characters of Jack & Wendy after him and his wife. This is one of the 🔑 keys to decoding the underlying narrative of the film. As soon as you realize this is an admission the pieces start to fall into 🧩 place.
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Card #04: 👤🪞 Jack Torrence & Stanley Kubrick
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The mirror 🪞🪓 counterpart in the case of 'Jack Torrence' is 'Stanley Kubrick' himself.
The mirror 🪞🪓 counterpart in the case of 'Jack Torrence' is 'Stanley Kubrick' himself.
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Card #05: 👩🪞 Wendy Torrence & Christiane Kubrick
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The mirror 🪞🙎♀️ counterpart in the case of 'Wendy Torrence' is Stanley's wife 'Christiane Kubrick'.
The mirror 🪞🙎♀️ counterpart in the case of 'Wendy Torrence' is Stanley's wife 'Christiane Kubrick'.
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Card #06: 🇺🇸🪞 Stuart Ullman & JFK
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The mirror 🪞 counterpart in the case of 'Stuart Ullman' is 'John F. Kennedy'. Stuart Ullman was the general manager at the Overlook Hotel. He gives Jack/Kubrick the 🇺🇸 job as caretaker to watch over the hotel for the winter. 📝 President John F. Kennedy initiated 'Project Gemini' and the 🚀 'Apollo' program in the early 1960s to fulfill his historic 1961 goal of landing a man on the 🌖 Moon. Gemini served as the crucial two-man stepping stone to test vital orbital techniques, while Apollo was the ultimate three-man lunar mission that achieved the Moon landings
The mirror 🪞 counterpart in the case of 'Stuart Ullman' is 'John F. Kennedy'.
Stuart Ullman was the general manager at the Overlook Hotel. He gives Jack/Kubrick the 🇺🇸 job as caretaker to watch over the hotel for the winter.
📝 President John F. Kennedy initiated 'Project Gemini' and the 🚀 'Apollo' program in the early 1960s to fulfill his historic 1961 goal of landing a man on the 🌖 Moon. Gemini served as the crucial two-man stepping stone to test vital orbital techniques, while Apollo was the ultimate three-man lunar mission that achieved the Moon landings
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Card #07: ♊️🌌🪞 Grady Twins & Project Gemini
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The mirror 🪞👥 counterpart of the 'Grady Twins' is the 'Gemini Project'. 📝 Project Gemini was a NASA program that directly resulted from President John F. Kennedy's challenge to 🚀 land a man on the 🌔 moon by the end of the 1960s. It served as a crucial bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
The mirror 🪞👥 counterpart of the 'Grady Twins' is the 'Gemini Project'.
📝 Project Gemini was a NASA program that directly resulted from President John F. Kennedy's challenge to 🚀 land a man on the 🌔 moon by the end of the 1960s. It served as a crucial bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
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Card #08: 🚀👕 Danny's Apollo 11 Sweater
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📍 Apollo 11 🚀 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the 🌔 Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969. 📍 Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. He described the event as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." 📍 Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
📍 Apollo 11 🚀 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the 🌔 Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969.
📍 Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience. He described the event as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
📍 Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
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Card #09: 🏈🚀🪞 Mickey Kick Off
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Card #10: 🚀🪞 A11 Work And No Play
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📍 When you 🪞 interpret 'All' as 'A11'... Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy
📍 When you 🪞 interpret 'All' as 'A11'...
Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy
Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy
Apollo 11 work and no play makes Jack/Kubrick a dull boy
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Card #11: 🎭🪞 An Admission
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In this scene 🎬 Jack/Kubrick admits to Wendy/Christiane that she has no idea what would happen if he failed to live up to his obligations. He freaks out as if the people depending on him to take care of the hotel (🇺🇸Kennedy, America) mean serious business. ❓ So who are these people? The people in the 🟡 'Gold Room'. They TOO have a 🪞 MIRROR.
In this scene 🎬 Jack/Kubrick admits to Wendy/Christiane that she has no idea what would happen if he failed to live up to his obligations. He freaks out as if the people depending on him to take care of the hotel (🇺🇸Kennedy, America) mean serious business.
❓ So who are these people?
The people in the 🟡 'Gold Room'.
They TOO have a 🪞 MIRROR.
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Card #12: 🦋 Project Monarch
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In this particular scene we see the Grady Twins/Gemini Twins with a poster on the wall that reads MONARCH. This could be a reference to 'Project 🦋 Monarch' aka MKUltra. 📍 Project MKUltra was a top-secret CIA program, u
In this particular scene we see the Grady Twins/Gemini Twins with a poster on the wall that reads MONARCH. This could be a reference to 'Project 🦋 Monarch' aka MKUltra.
📍 Project MKUltra was a top-secret CIA program, utilizing LSD and other drugs to research mind control, behavior modification, and psychological torture. Spearheaded by the CIA's technical services division, researchers conducted hundreds of experiments on unwitting subjects—including prisoners, patients, and marginalized groups—to exploit the drug's effects.
📍 The project also involved experimenting with LSD to discredit individuals. By dosing subjects without their knowledge, operators observed severe "paranoid reactions" that led to subjects being discredited or institutionalized by unsuspecting psychiatrists.
❓ In what way could MKUltra or LSD tie to the moon missions or the general public?
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Card #13: 🟡🍽️🪞 The Gold Room & The Elite
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Card #14: 👑 Final Photo🪞Royal Palace Hotel
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The original photo used at the end of The Shining has been found via Getty Images. Originally taken at the St Valentine’s Day Ball, 14 February 1921, at the Empress Rooms, the 'Royal 👑 Palace Hotel', Kensington, London. Stanley Kubrick’s chilling 1980 film The Shining closes with an unforgettable photograph: Jack Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, smiling eerily at a 1921 ball. For decades, cinephiles debated the origin of that image. Recently, it was uncovered through Getty Images that the base photo was not fabricated for the film but came from a real St. Valentine’s Day Ball at the Royal Palace Hotel in Kensington in 1921. The photograph, showing elegantly dressed men and women enjoying a glamorous evening, was subtly edited by Kubrick’s team, Nicholson’s face was carefully superimposed onto one of the partygoers. This discovery revealed Kubrick’s meticulous attention to historical realism, even in supernatural storytelling. The photo’s real-world origin gives the film’s final s
The original photo used at the end of The Shining has been found via Getty Images. Originally taken at the St Valentine’s Day Ball, 14 February 1921, at the Empress Rooms, the 'Royal 👑 Palace Hotel', Kensington, London.
Stanley Kubrick’s chilling 1980 film The Shining closes with an unforgettable photograph: Jack Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, smiling eerily at a 1921 ball. For decades, cinephiles debated the origin of that image.
Recently, it was uncovered through Getty Images that the base photo was not fabricated for the film but came from a real St. Valentine’s Day Ball at the Royal Palace Hotel in Kensington in 1921. The photograph, showing elegantly dressed men and women enjoying a glamorous evening, was subtly edited by Kubrick’s team, Nicholson’s face was carefully superimposed onto one of the partygoers.
This discovery revealed Kubrick’s meticulous attention to historical realism, even in supernatural storytelling. The photo’s real-world origin gives the film’s final shot an even eerier quality, suggesting that Torrance’s descent into madness was, in some sense, eternal—his image forever trapped in time at a real party that happened more than half a century earlier.
📍 The Royal Palace Hotel, where the photo was taken, was demolished in the 1960s; it once stood near Kensington High Street and served as a lavish venue for aristocratic events in early 20th-century London.
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Card #15: 👣🪞 Footprints
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The mirror 🪞 counterpart of the 'footprints' in the snow are 'the footprints left on the 🌖 'moon'. 📍 The theory being that these 👣 footprints could of possibly been left behind on the moon by mechanical means such as a roller on the rover (remote control based).
The mirror 🪞 counterpart of the 'footprints' in the snow are 'the footprints left on the 🌖 'moon'.
📍 The theory being that these 👣 footprints could of possibly been left behind on the moon by mechanical means such as a roller on the rover (remote control based).
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Card #16: 🎭🪞The ADULT & The CHILD
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📍 Jack/Adult - Kubrick's monster 📍 Danny/Child - Kubricks innocence
📍 Jack/Adult - Kubrick's monster
📍 Danny/Child - Kubricks innocence
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Card #17: 🟩🟥🪞Carpets: The NIGHTMARE & REALITY
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Card #18: 🎭🪞 The Nightmare
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Stanleys innocence 🪞 and Stanleys monster.
Stanleys innocence 🪞 and Stanleys monster.
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Card #19: 📼⏪ RECAP
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We encounter Jack and Wendy traveling up the mountain at the beginning of the film. In this instance, jacks MIRROR is STANLEY (wild eye brows, hair, except face trimmed for a job) and Wendy's MIRROR is CHRISTIANE (personal style & clothing similarities). When we reach the hotel we meet Mr. Stuart Ullman. Mr. Ullmans MIRROR is JFK (this can be seen by the flag on the desk, blue jacket, hair, composure) If we interpret these characters as their MIRROR counterparts we can deduce that STANLEY has arrived at the hotel and is meeting with JFK. Wendy is not present. This is mans business. Who is the man with STANLEY? A worker for JFK who leaves and plays no role. But what is STANLEY here for? A job to be the caretaker of the HOTEL. The HOTEL too has a MIRROR... and that MIRROR is The United States of America (The President at the time being JFK) We can deduce that the HOTEL stands on a native american burial ground (artifacts, calamut, decor). This represents early America. The HOTEL represen
We encounter Jack and Wendy traveling up the mountain at the beginning of the film. In this instance, jacks MIRROR is STANLEY (wild eye brows, hair, except face trimmed for a job) and Wendy's MIRROR is CHRISTIANE (personal style & clothing similarities).
When we reach the hotel we meet Mr. Stuart Ullman.
Mr. Ullmans MIRROR is JFK (this can be seen by the flag on the desk, blue jacket, hair, composure)
If we interpret these characters as their MIRROR counterparts we can deduce that STANLEY has arrived at the hotel and is meeting with JFK. Wendy is not present. This is mans business.
Who is the man with STANLEY?
A worker for JFK who leaves and plays no role.
But what is STANLEY here for?
A job to be the caretaker of the HOTEL.
The HOTEL too has a MIRROR... and that MIRROR is The United States of America (The President at the time being JFK)
We can deduce that the HOTEL stands on a native american burial ground (artifacts, calamut, decor). This represents early America.
The HOTEL represents NEW America that has conquered and slaughtered the natives ("a lot of things happened here not all of them good")(constant nightmares)
But STANLEY has taken a job to be the CARETAKE of AMERICA by JFK.
But to deduce what type of job AMERICA requires we have to follow some clues and their MIRROR counterparts.
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Card #20: 😡🎭 Stephen King Hate
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Stanley Kubricks interpretation of The Shining is notoriously 😡 hated by Stephen King himself. King notoriously disliked the film due to the numerous changes Kubrick made from the 📕 book. King wrote a screenplay draft for the film. Kubrick completely ignored it, though and called King's screenwriting, "weak". Instead, Kubrick decided to adapt the book himself with novelist Diane Johnson, writer of The Shadow Knows. In Stephen King's original novel, Jack drives a red Beetle, while Kubrick's film features a yellow one. Film scholars and fans widely interpret the inclusion of the crushed red Beetle as a deliberate visual nod by Kubrick to Stephen King—a symbolic way of saying he was deviating from the source material to tell his own story. 🌙🚀 📍 There is a good reason Kubrick modified and changed the story to his liking... hidden within a maze. 🌀
Stanley Kubricks interpretation of The Shining is notoriously 😡 hated by Stephen King himself. King notoriously disliked the film due to the numerous changes Kubrick made from the 📕 book.
King wrote a screenplay draft for the film. Kubrick completely ignored it, though and called King's screenwriting, "weak". Instead, Kubrick decided to adapt the book himself with novelist Diane Johnson, writer of The Shadow Knows.
In Stephen King's original novel, Jack drives a red Beetle, while Kubrick's film features a yellow one. Film scholars and fans widely interpret the inclusion of the crushed red Beetle as a deliberate visual nod by Kubrick to Stephen King—a symbolic way of saying he was deviating from the source material to tell his own story. 🌙🚀
📍 There is a good reason Kubrick modified and changed the story to his liking... hidden within a maze. 🌀
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Card #21: 📸 Extra Photos
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Card #22: 📸 Kubrick with George Mueller of NASA
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Card #23: 📎 Evidence & Thoughts To Consider
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Operation Paperclip • Cold War • Space Race • NASA • The Contract • Werner von Braun • Shadow Government • A11 Work and No Play • The Shining / Apollo 11 Easter Eggs • Hidden Symbolism • 2001 as R&D for Moon Landing • Cr
Operation Paperclip • Cold War • Space Race • NASA • The Contract • Werner von Braun • Shadow Government • A11 Work and No Play • The Shining / Apollo 11 Easter Eggs • Hidden Symbolism • 2001 as R&D for Moon Landing • Cross Pollination of NASA Science Advisors • Golden Rey & Tang Branded References • The 2 Gemini Mission Twin Girls • Signed Contract to be Caretaker of Overlook (America) • Overlook Carpet Pattern Looks Similar to Launch Pad Layout • Danny is the Rocket as he wears the Apollo 11 sweater, launches / stands up & walks into the Moon Room • Demanded Eyes Wide Shut released on 30 Year A11 Anniversary
Front Screen Projection • Scotchlite Screen • Master of Illusion • Top Cinematic Magician • Hiding Background Screen with Real Foreground Set • Different Foreground & Background Textures • Increased Camera Speed
🔑 Room 237 - the Average Distance of the Moon (in 1969) was 237.000 Miles from Earth.
❓ Did Kubrick Cut a Deal with the US Gov't to become the Caretaker of the Project Called A11, Apollo 11?
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