I should go back and reread the book. It's been ages. But I did feel like I got more of a domestic violence/substance abuse metaphor than the Kubrick film.
I watched the film for the first time recently after the pandemic started, and it seemed much more ambiguous than the book about whether this family was being haunted or going slowly insane from isolation.
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I should go back and reread the book. It's been ages. But I did feel like I got more of a domestic violence/substance abuse metaphor than the Kubrick film.
I watched the film for the first time recently after the pandemic started, and it seemed much more ambiguous than the book about whether this family was being haunted or going slowly insane from isolation.