{"id":120038,"date":"2013-04-04T01:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=120038"},"modified":"2013-04-03T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T06:53:00","slug":"room-237-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/04\/04\/room-237-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Room 237 Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Room 237<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Rodney Ascher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obsession, in all its various shapes and forms, is a rich thematic vein when it comes to filmmaking. And of course labyrinthine myths and legends are integral parts of storytelling proper, but they also crop up and gather naturally around a variety of Hollywood productions &#8212; from ambitious but troubled blockbusters to the works of secretive and\/or iconoclastic auteurs. All these swirling elements come together in &#8220;Room 237,&#8221; director Rodney Ascher&#8217;s nonfiction indulgence of a bunch of theories about the true meaning of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s 1980 horror film &#8220;The Shining&#8221; &#8212; hypotheses that, ultimately, even Mel Gibson&#8217;s wild-eyed character from &#8220;Conspiracy Theory&#8221; or Jim Carrey&#8217;s digit-fixated paranoiac from &#8220;The Number 23&#8221; would have trouble believing.<\/p>\n<p>So does that make &#8220;Room 237&#8221; &#8212; its title referring to a notably spooky suite in the film &#8212; a waste of time, or even boring? No, not at all. Even though several of these analytical readings don&#8217;t pass a cursory smell test, and all have been pretty much debunked by Leon Vitali, the late Kubrick&#8217;s personal assistant on &#8220;The Shining,&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t dint the film&#8217;s power as a testament and kind of paean to the sticky psychological hold of great art. One interviewee views Kubrick&#8217;s liberal adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s bestselling novel as an indictment of the U.S. government&#8217;s treatment of indigenous peoples, while for another &#8212; seeing significance in the number 42, and its divisibles &#8212; it is a sweeping parable about the Holocaust. Still another sees &#8220;The Shining&#8221; as an elaborate confessionary lament on the part of Kubrick for his involvement in faked space exploration footage with the government. (&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying we didn&#8217;t go to the moon,&#8221; he says, before opining that he&#8217;s setting himself up for an audit. &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying that what we saw was faked, and it was faked by Stanley Kubrick.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>What Ascher doesn&#8217;t do, for better and worse, is offer up push-back or analysis of this conjecture, or query his nine different subjects about whether any of these theories might in fact be mutually exclusive. (In fact, Ascher doesn&#8217;t even show his subjects, some of whom are interviewed over the phone, it&#8217;s evident.) A movie of more intellectual rigor or ambition might have tackled that. Instead, &#8220;Room 237&#8221; is a platform for their compulsions and fixations, and in its unironic embrace of their singular truths it sometimes takes on the feeling of trying to engage a schizophrenic bus passenger on their own conversational terms.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the flipside of this is that &#8220;Room 237&#8221; ably conjures up the isolation and disorientation of &#8220;The Shining&#8221; itself, abetted by a great score from Jonathan Snipes and William Huston. It&#8217;s also just a good deal of fun, in its own wonky, slurry way. Powered by a deep and abiding affection for both &#8220;The Shining&#8221; and Kubrick in general, &#8220;Room 237&#8221; is an amuse-bouche of remix culture &#8212; a very specific film that is also about the dance of intention and interpretation. In his scrupulous avoidance of debunking, it&#8217;s clear that Ascher&#8217;s aim, essentially, is to throw a spotlight on interpretive criticism and embrace, and underscore that the relationship between art, artist and the culture at large is a complex one, with frequently hazy boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Room-237-Movie-Review.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Room-237-Movie-Review.jpg\" alt=\"Room 237 Movie Review\" title=\"Room 237 Movie Review\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-120162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Room-237-Movie-Review.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Room-237-Movie-Review-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Room 237 Director: Rodney Ascher Obsession, in all its various shapes and forms, is a rich thematic vein when it comes to filmmaking. 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