Tag: Stanley Kubrick

โ€œThe Shiningโ€: in the labyrinths of the psyche and time

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From the careful analysis of Stephen King's novel (1977) and of the film counterpart by Stanley Kubrick (1980), readings emerge that we can define as "esoteric": the Overlook Hotel as a labyrinth / monster that swallows its occupants and as a space outside of time; the superimposition of the past with the present in a similar perspective to that of the so-called "Akashic memory"; the "shimmer" as a supernatural capacity to insert oneself into this flow outside of time and space; a conception of the United States of America as a single, huge Indian cemetery (and not only).

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The human being as multiplicity: mask, "doppelgรคnger" and puppet

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Since modern man has dramatically realized that the unity of the human being is an illusion some of the highest minds of his consortium have sought - in a uncanny game of masks, mirrors and dolls - to understand how to integrate one's infinite personalities and overcome the existential nihilism that such masks potentially offer: from ETA Hoffmann's โ€œThe Sandmanโ€ and EA Poe's โ€œWilliam Wilsonโ€ to Hermann Hesse's โ€œThe Steppe Wolfโ€; from the contemporary cinema of Roman Polanski and David Lynch to Thomas Ligotti's "marionette metaphysics" and HP Lovecraft's "cosmic horror".

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