EYE SCREAM SITE MAP


Welcome to the Eye Scream site map. If you’re here to better understand The Shining, start at the top, and scroll until you find the section you’re looking for.

If you’re here to better understand Kubrick’s other films (as discussed in my videos Mass Mirror (coming soon) and Mourning Creation (coming soon)) click here to be taken down to the directory for everything but Eyes Wide Shut, and click here to be taken down to the Eyes Wide Shut section. If you are reading this sentence, it means the non-Shining sections are still under construction, but hopefully not for too much longer.


EYE SCREAM GLOSSARY


LEAVE A TRAIL OF BREADCRUMBS: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THIS SITE

A brief overview of the major theories. If you’ve seen my intro documentary Eye Scream, you’ve basically read this section.


THE ANNOTATED SHINING: COMPARING KING AND KUBRICK

An exploration of which of Kubrick’s techniques and buried meanings were derived from King’s novel.


THROUGH THE MIRRORFORM AND WHAT STANLEY FOUND THERE, PART I

A moment-by-moment analysis of all the meaning that can be derived by observing the film forwards and backwards simultaneously.


THROUGH THE MIRRORFORM AND WHAT STANLEY FOUND THERE, PART II

Looking at large-scale synchronicities that emerge out of the mirrorform.


REDRUM ROAD

Synchronizing The Shining and Abbey Road by the Beatles.


THE RUM AND THE RED, AND THE TWICE-FOLDED SHINING

Synchronizing The Shining and an album that appears in the background of the film: Stomu Yamashta’s One By One.


COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW, OVER ME: A GUIDE TO ALL THE SHINING’S BURIED ART

A database of all the paintings, literature, film, music, cultural references, and games that appear in the background of various shots. Indented items are ones that haven’t been properly identified yet.

VISUAL ARTS

Literature

Film and Television

MUSIC

HISTORICAL REFERENCES

TOYS & GAMES

THE TREACHERY OF IMAGES: THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF THE OVERLOOK PHOTOGRAPHS

Jack’s image appears in one of 21 photos on a wall in the lobby at the end of the film. If we assign number values to these photos, a host of other number games emerge.


GOLDEN SPIRALS (FILL YOUR EYES): HOW THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE AFFECTS THE FILM

One of the songs on the soundtrack is theorized to have been composed according to the golden ratio. This caused me to investigate how the film might be 143 minutes long for the same reason.


CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: A STUDY ON PATTERNS, SYMMETRIES AND CYCLES

Kubrick likes to establish aural/visual patterns that play out in a variety of ways, always heightening our sense of the surface-level themes.


ALL HEAVEN AND NO HELL MAKES JACK A LEFT RIGHT

The shots in the film are composed in two different ways: rule-of-thirds shots and phi grid shots. This is a study of each “phi” shot in the film, and how Kubrick assigned symbolic significance to the various components of the phi grid.

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THAT TRICYCLE IS KAFKAESQUE!: Absurdities, Disappearances, and Transformations

Various items in the film will vanish, appear, relocate or transform between shots. Also, there’s many spatial impossibilities suggested about the physical structure of the Overlook Hotel, when comparing shots. Do these absurdities have a net effect?


HERE COMES THE SUNKEN PLACE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE FILM’S HISTORICAL ROOTS AND THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Kubrick invokes mythology and history to investigate why we have the reactions we have to large and small-scale atrocities and the horrors of physical reality.


THE TOWER OF FABLE

Number codes on the food boxes in the kitchen pantry express ID codes from an old way of cataloguing fairy tales, including the ones referenced openly in the dialogue. This helped me to realize the significance of where rooms are located in the Overlook’s blueprints, revealing the building’s layout to be a giant game board.


SIMPLE BEAR NECESSITIES: THE MANY ANIMALS OF THE SHINING

Many animals are seen in art objects across the film’s several settings. The major four connect to the indigenous philosophy of the Four Directions, which in turn is used to segment the film’s four main characters (Jack, Wendy, Danny and the Overlook).


SHINE BABIES

Many films and filmmakers since The Shining seem to be reprocessing what Kubrick was saying, in their own unique ways. Here’s a look at just a few standouts.


MASS MIRROR

This section of the website is under construction, and will become available as soon as the video for it appears on my YouTube channel. Head there now and subscribe to become notified as soon as this section becomes available.

  • Part 1: Eyes Wide Shut
  • Part 2: Full Metal Jacket
  • Part 3: Barry Lyndon
  • Part 4: A Clockwork Orange
  • Part 5: 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Part 6: Dr. Strangelove
  • Part 7: Lolita

MOURNING CREATION

This section of the website (dealing with my discoveries about the secret codes at the heart of Eyes Wide Shut) is under construction, and will become available as soon as the video for it appears on my YouTube channel. Head there now and subscribe to become notified as soon as this section becomes available.


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