The Shining

Stanley Kubrick · 1980 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Jack Torrance takes a winter caretaking job at a Colorado hotel that shuts for the season, and moves his wife and son in for the snow. The boy sees things that have not happened yet, and the building has a history the manager mentions only in passing. Cabin fever staged inside a maze.

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• alludes to ↑ Theseus and the Minotaur
  Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend

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