Deeply related to Kubrick as Unreliable Narrator, Point of View is something manipulated wildly across the film.
Are we ghosts following Danny as he trikes? Are we the mirror as Jack talks to us about it being slow?
How about how first we are Danny entering Room 237 and then we turn into Jack as the camera moves into the Bathroom?
This sense of mistrust and perspective shifts is intentional.
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Western vs. Indigenous: Combining both ways to represent one's world, environment, and point of view feeds into the American History narrative, speaking to Manifest Destiny, Colonialism, Settlers, and absorbed culture due to assimiltation.