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Above is the exact center image of The Shining, about one hour and eleven minutes into the film. We see Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann, the head chef at The Overlook Hotel, lying in a hypnagogic state watching television, about to receive a “shining” vision of Jack entering Room 237. The center point of The Shining shows something just about to happen. The symmetry is just a little off, just as the symmetry of the above image is just a little off. The green bed points to the right, propelling the narrative force forward. Similarly, the incredible amount of different analyses of The Shining proliferating across the Internet and beyond reach no crystal conclusion: they only produce more analysis. In all my years of studying not only The Shining, but also other studies of The Shining, there seems to be no end to it; just when you’ve think you’ve seen it all, someone finds something new hidden in the labyrinth of the Hotel walls. (via Ad Hoc I Look At The Shining And It Shows Me Things: John Fell Ryan Gets Lost Inside The Overlook Hotel)

Kubrick is having a good laugh. Or slamming the table with an open palm, “They’re getting closer!”