Unconscious Coding: The Language of Your Mind

  When Stanley Kubrick released his classic movie, The Shining, it received a great deal of criticism. Most of it came from admirers of Stephen King’s work. They claimed that Kubrick’s production was nothing like the novel. However, the controversial director understood the horror genre extremely well and he produced an innovative movie. As a matter of fact, Kubrick conducted an in-depth investigation into the unconscious codes of the human being to get to know how to disturb the viewer. He based his investigation on Umberto Eco’s theory of codes and Freud’s uncanny theory. His objective was to disturb the…