WEDNESDAY - FURTHER INSIDE THE LABYRINTH

The use of the Apollo jumper is indicative of a second level of interpetation - reminiscent of 2001 and also of the link between the two films and their three act sequence. The first sees the characters lost and surrounded by a landscape of enormous proportions, the second sees a small team of isolated characters entrusted with looking after a property of decadent opulence, and third being where the protagonist descends into being inarticulate, homicidal, and unrecognisable as a result of the pressures of the caretaking mission.

The use of the carpeting in this scene is clearly imagery to describe Danny being within a maze. The use of the ball rolling along to Danny�s feet as he plays becomes of some significance in a scene removed from the film after a few days of release, as explained later. In the full version of the film, as indicated in the two deleted scenes described elsewhere, the tennis ball is another normal object that is perverted into an object of terror by the hotel and a precursor to an escalation of the situation.