# 🔑🪞 REDRUM is the KEY

Topic: The Shining
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#### Card #01: 🔑🪞 REDRUM is the KEY

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- Topic: The Shining
- Updated: 2026-07-12T20:15:10.441Z
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📍 REDRUM 🪞 MURDER When Danny begins writing 'REDRUM' onto the door the audience witnesses Wendy wake up startled as she looks in the mirror 🪞 seeing the reverse reflection spell out 'MURDER'. 📝 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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📍 REDRUM 🪞 MURDER
When Danny begins writing 'REDRUM' onto the door the audience witnesses Wendy wake up startled as she looks in the mirror 🪞 seeing the reverse reflection spell out 'MURDER'. 

📝 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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