I dont know about the shining but i read that in Kubricks 2001: Space Odyssey there is loads of hidden meaning so i would put it past him.
#3. The Shining: Jack Nicholson Doesn't Care About Indian People
What You Think You're WatchingA horror film about a frustrated writer who loses his marbles while working at an isolated hotel in Colorado. Said writer tries to kill his family as he cackles a catchphrase from a popular American talk show.
The SubtextThe caretaker's wife and son come to represent Native Americans, and murderous Jack Torrance is whitey.
According to some theorists, Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining is brimming with messages about violence against Native Americans. Right from the beginning, the manager of the Overlook Hotel lets us know, yeah, the hotel was totally built over the massacred bodies of indigenous people. In fact, we're told that builders actually had to fight off Indians while it was being constructed in 1907, despite the fact that the likelihood of anyone having to battle Indians in Colorado in 1907 would have been about as high as the likelihood of having to fight off Sasquatch.
Unless there was some sort of territorial spat with a nearby casino.
So there's that. But then as you watch the movie, you can't help but notice that the entire place is decorated with a Native American motif, including a Navajo wall hanging that has a decapitated bison head right next to it. And Jack Nicholson's character has a fun time repeatedly throwing a ball at the hanging, just in case you didn't get the hint that he's there to symbolically fuck Indians over.
But maybe that's just a coincidence. That stuff was probably just there in the hotel they shot the movie in. But we're not done.
In the first half of the film, when Torrance is still relatively free of Hotel Ghost Syndrome, both his wife and son dress in a series of outfits that all prominently feature patriotic shades of red and blue.
But once Torance starts going loco, his wardrobe becomes red and blue ...
When they remake it, Torrance will dress up as a cavalryman and his wife will catch smallpox.
... while his wife's suddenly morphs into more earthy colors, with the exception of her screaming-yellow TEEPEE JACKET:
"HOW KIMOSABE!"
The wife and child, who entered as Americans, have been transformed by the hotel's epic vengeance issues into victims. Meanwhile, crazified Torrance wanders into a (ghost) party, where he randomly repeats the words "white man's burden" to the bartender before going into the red-and-white striped bathroom ...
... and making racist comments with the former (ghost) caretaker. After that, it doesn't take long until Torrance is running after his family with an ax and murdering the movie's only nonwhite character:
His family, having learned a valuable lesson about violence and clothing-based patriotism, escapes. Meanwhile, according to the film's final scene, Torrance is living on in his hotel ball. Forever.
Oh, and one more patriotic touch for the psychotic Torrance. Note the date:
July 4th.