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Why Do They Call It The Shining?

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Best Answer: The "shining" is what Halloran's mother called the psychic ability that Halloran and Danny have. I'm not sure this is explained in the movie. In another one of King's books (The Stand, I believe), it is referred to by another character as "the shining lamp of God". read more

Cocks, writing in his book The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust, proposed a controversial theory that all of Kubrick's work is informed by the Holocaust; there is, he says, a strong (though hidden) holocaust subtext in The Shining. This, Cocks believes, is why Kubrick's screenplay goes to emotional extremes, omitting much of the novel's supernaturalism and making the character of Wendy much more hysteria-prone. read more

She called it shining, and for a long time I thought it was just the two of us that had the shine to us. Just like you probably thought you was the only one. But there are other folks, though mostly they don't know it, or don't believe it. read more

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