The shining is a weird movie. I suppose that is something one must expect from Kubrick, yet still, it is odd. The Shining shares an issue I think many older classics share; in that its revolutions in film making are commonplace now, and so much of its significance in that way can be lost. The horror was also somewhat disturbing, but for me the most uncomfortable aspect of the film was the fact that the family dynamic shown reminded me deeply of how my family was. The father was this deeply cynical, downright emotionally abusive husband and father, who would treat his wife as lesser. Though my dad never tried to murder me with an axe, sometimes I thought he would.
The wife even looks like my mom. Spooky.