Spatial Impossibilities

Filmmaking is not an exact representation of life and spaces are shown to exist where they could not be. This is true no matter what film we’re talking about, but specifically with The Shining, things are shown that could not exist.

Elevators overlap into Ullman’s office, this same interior office space boasts a large window of the outside. Second floor rooms overlap with stairwells. Openings to the hedge maze shift entirely.

What this does, aside from the fact that the viewer cannot (and should not) trust Kubrick’s storytelling, is show you that what you see is not what you get, and it’s blatant.