Re: "The Shining", a brilliant and truly scary movie!
In the film's most frightening moment, a moment of pure terror and also a brilliant moment in cinema, Taro, who has been forbidden to look at Uncle Sam's secret 9/11 manuscript, looks down from above Uncle Sam's typewriter - he sights down on a single sentence. It is a familiar maxim (taught to schoolchildren) repeated many times on the piece of paper:
All work and no play makes Uncle Sam a dull boy.
Then to his horror as he realizes his friend is truly insane, his endlessly-repeating topographical configurations, all permutations and variations of the same WTC video, are found on reams and reams of footage. [The footages were hand-tampered, not machine tampered.] They reveal the self-deception of Uncle Sam's bankrupt, chauvinistic mind and spirit in his insipid conspiracy. From behind, Uncle Sam emerges, startles him and asks: "How do you like it?" Dread-filled, Taro jumps from fright, turning to see Uncle Sam's smiling, demonically insane, shining face. Uncle Sam's mental vulnerabilities and failings [as a democratic regime and model economy for the world] have been uncovered by his nagging friend, and he reacts with a mixture of disgrace, embarrassment, possession, and projected rage.
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