sometimes it take a film make master like kubrick to bring that extra little something and that unique and untractable and elusive ingredient that transform a great movie or a great script into a masterpiece and one for the age . it not just that stephen king story have enough meat and potato make it difficult for even the most workmanlike of director to miss . heck and even king himself do not fare so bad . it how kubrick perceives king universe and how he transform the page into screen time and that render the shin both a visual feast and a compacted masterclass in direct . kubrick miss en scene be and a usually and terrific . the movie progress with a brisk and sharp and lively pace and even though it neither fast nor heavily edit and it clock at no less than 160 minute . the camera prowl through the lavish corridor of the overlook hotel like it be some kind of mystic labyrinth rife for exploration and linear track shot expose the impeccably decorate interior in all their grandeur . there a symmetry and geometrical approach in how kubrick perceives space that remind me very much of how japanese director work in the sixty . a if what be depict be inconsequential to how all the different element be balance inside the frame . certain image definitely stand out . the first shot of jack typewriter and accompany off screen from the thump of a ball and like drum of doom come from some other floor or produce by the typewriter itself a though it be an instrument of doom all by itself and later on prove to be nothing short of just that . a red river flow through the hotel elevator in slow motion . jack hit the door with the axe and the camera move along with him and track the action a it happen instead of remain static and a though it the camera pierce through the door and not the axe . the ultra fast zoom in the kid face thrust u inside his head before we see the two dead girl from his pov . and of course and the bathroom scene . much have be say of jack nicholson obtrusive overacting . his mad be not entirely successful and because and well and he jack nicholson . the guy look half mad anyway . play mad turn him into an exaggerated caricature of himself . shelley duvall on the other hand be one of the most inspired casting choice kubrick ever have . come from a streak of fantastic performance for robert altman in the seventy ( 3 woman and thief like u and nashville ) and she bring to her character the right amount of fragility and emotional distress . a terrific and very underrated actress .