nd provides the medium for Jack's first shining: when he overlooks as images of Wendy and Danny walk around in the maze. The Overlook Hotel is also a maze with its endless rooms and hallways, as shown by Danny's tricycle travels photographed with the new Steadicam. Kubrick hired Garret Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, to operate the Steadicam during these shots, which are exhilarating not only because of their technical innovation, but also because they prompt the viewer to anticipate horror around every corner.The dualistic imagery, mirrors, and mazes all represent the schizophrenic nature of the human personality. Inside the mind of every loving father and husband there looms a murderous monster created by a society of repression. The Overlook Hotel draws out Jack's monster, and he devolves to a state of primal anger, grunting like an ape-man by the end of the film. Jack's inadequacies as a careerist and family man create much of this anger. As his evil side emerges, Jack also becomes more abusive and sexist. He refers to his wife as the "old sperm bank," and at one point he says to her, "You've been *censored*ing up my whole life!" As Jack loses himself in his imaginary world of the past, Wendy and Danny grow closer together. In one scene, Wendy and Danny frolic outside in the snow while Jack leers at them from inside the hotel, looking more like an evil ape-man from 2001 than an ex-teacher and writer. The family tension increases when Wendy accuses Jack of hurting Danny. Jack seethes with violent anger as he tells Lloyd: "I wouldn't touch one hair on his God damn little head. I love the little son of a bitch!" Even though Delbert Grady convinces Jack to "correct" Danny and Wendy by insulting his fragile manhood, the oedipal theme is fully realized when the son escapes with the mother and leaves the frozen father behind.In The Shining, Kubrick not only comments on domestic violence and child abuse in contemporary America, but he als...
