The Innovative Motion Picture Director Stanley Kubrick s...

The innovative motion picture director Stanley Kubrick’s varied his genres from film to film: from comedy, action and all the way to horror. On the other side, the film’s themes remained the same throughout his body of work. They all explored the dark side of the human condition and human nature. The topics dealing with sexual desires, violent urges, corruption, morality vs immorality, the illogical, and personality disorders were all part of this dark human condition. It is almost as if Kubrick wanted to show the real atrocities of the world so that his films could work as wake-up call for the human race, so that his audience could learn and avoid the bad choices his protagonists couldn’t avoid. Kubrick shows us this through the character’s decisions, which tend to be in the immoral side. He also clues us in through his use of surveillance-like camera techniques. Most of his films, including The Shining, use this technique and it implies he wants us to st op being detached observers. He wants us to wake up and help out when we see something bad happening. Other techniques that he uses which help in proving this point, include the use of extreme camera angles, more specifically when the camera is very low in the ground and is looking up to the authoritative antagonist. Kubrick’s consistent use of one-point perspective support the idea as well, since it makes the characters look isolated and with no one nearby to help out. Ultimately, his use of duality, geometry, eerie