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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
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An interesting parallel. Apparently, it's a massacre that began because the man in command was drunk, and because the first shot was fired by a man who secretly wanted the massacre to happen as a diversion (to protect the group that the army was actually looking for, which his wife was apart of). And the movie The Shining features a man who gets drunk on ghost alchohol and wants to divert attention (and blame) from his past abuses of his son, culminating in a potential massacre.
But if we're going to continue discussing this movie, then there are more pressing matters that need explaining, namely...
Seriously, what was up with that? Was it just Kubrick trying to get a rise out of the audience?