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Stanley Kubrick's the Shining Maps of the Overlook

Mapping The Overlook

One has to realize that Kubrick practiced the same mismatch technique in his other films, such as with the Haze household in Lolita and the apartment of Bill and Alice in Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick films things in such a way so that he guides the audience to believe the Colorado Lounge is located somehow above the lobby, even though the viewer also knows both are on a ground floor. Though the viewer sees all this can't be so, and that none of this fits together, Kubrick guides one to think it does, and treats it all very normally, so cognitive dissonance is quelled but never absolutely quieted.

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