This smart documentary is a fun, interesting and involving film that drags the viewer into nine people's obsessive conspiracy theories around Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining.
ROOM 237 refers, of course, to the room in the film where Jack Nicholson finds a beautiful young lady in the bathtub that soon becomes a decaying old woman in his arms.
Director Rodney Ascher opens the door to Room 237 and invites in some fascinating people who express their varying theories of what Kubrick's film really means.
You'll watch with varying degrees of amazement as some of these folks spin their theories, which range from Kubrick really telling us that the moon landing was faked, that the entire film is a statement about our national abuse of the American Indians, all the way to a belief that there's a minotaur living in the middle of the hedge maze outside the hotel.
Room 237 slows down the film to a frame-by-frame speed to highlight some of the theories and I have to admit that I'll never watch the film the same way again.
Some of the theories are really stupid and some are really fascinating, but Room 237 is always fun and interesting. If you love Kubrick, The Shining or conspiracy theories, you're gonna love opening the door to Room 237. It RedRummed its way to a B for me.
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