Scene 5 : CLOSING DAY

Jack�s conversation with Danny touches upon cannibalism, and it seems that Jack is more versed in the macabre than Wendy, despite what Jack said in the interview that his wife was a horror film buff. Perhaps she watched the films with Jack, and he really took note. But in this conversation, Jack foreshadows a motif of the film with the telling comment that �It must be alright - he saw it on the television.�. Here Jack�s giving a tacit approval to the television : it can fill the role that he might not be able to. And, as we see later on, the television becomes an important factor in the films visual makeup.

As the conversation fades, Kubrick allows his only traditional use of a horror film motif : The use of the clouds in the cross fade onto the shot of the Overlook is imagery reminscent of traditional horror : Spirits are present.