00:00When it seemed like every last possible detail in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining had been uncovered,
00:05along comes a Twitter user with a perceptive observation you probably hadn't noticed before.
00:10Kubrick writer and essayist Filippo Olivieri recently penned a lengthy Twitter thread
00:15detailing his discovery that Jack Nicholson actually looks directly in the camera many,
00:20many times throughout the film. Ignoring the moments where Nicholson does it because we're
00:24watching him through the POV of a character he's talking to, there are literally dozens of shots
00:29in the film where he'll briefly eyeball the camera lens for mere fractions of a second.
00:33Though it's not totally uncommon for actors to accidentally stare in the lens while looking
00:37around, would an actor of Nicholson's calibre really do it so many times in a single film?
00:42Olivieri theorises that this was actually an intentional flourish on his part,
00:47especially as nobody else in the movie does it, that by periodically looking at the audience,
00:51Nicholson's Jack Torrance is unconsciously telling us you are not safe.
00:55And with that in mind, good luck trying to watch The Shining the same way ever again.
00:59I've done that.
00:59I've done that.
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