i wasn't quite done with that blather about The Shining and genocide. what kubrick does with the horror genre is make the notions of genocide and repression acutely personal. you go to a mountain retreat to finally get the peace and opportunity to kick the habit and get down to the mountainous opus that's been sitting in your soul, and then the ghosts return, and join forces with the ones buried beneath the grand resort. genocide is something better contemplated at a distance of course, in a movie, in the past. but shining is present, it sees the past that continues, the present genocide, the one that isn't the other. in room 237 you are the angel of history and the cloud of witness is all the ghosts past and present. the boy danny is trying to shine light for the ones stuck in repression. and it's painful, to realize how deep it goes, to see how we're doing it again, over and over. from the native americans to the 3rd reich to vietnam to israel to iraq.

and the people who profit, those in the government and industry and corporate elites, will never stop the genocide that enriches them.