Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING is an intricately constructed maze of motifs, thematic and stylistic, that are so interwoven as to depend, one upon the other, for an appropriate analysis. One of the main themes, the continuum of time, is a case in point. Incorporating both thematic and stylistic motifs, discuss Kubrick’s treatment of time and the ultimate, perhaps inexplicable [but that’s O.K.!] arrival of Jack in a photo taken in 1921.
