The Shining - Does Stephen King's Novel Answer Questions That Can't Be Answered?

http://whatculture.com/film/shining-stephen-kings-novel-answer-stanley-kubricks-riddle?page=4


The Shining has many ambiguities that contribute to the films overall horror effect, some of the mysteries of the film are sub plots from the original novel that Kubrick left out except for a small clue (eg, the man in a bear costume, the old woman in room 237, etc) he left those subplots unexplained to make it creepier.


To this day Stephen King still has much ambivalence to Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his novel for reasons such as what he cut out and how certain characters were written and fleshed out.


I haven't read the original novel but from what I've heard I think King and other fans alike are justified in hating the film because of its lack of faithfulness to the source material. That doesn't change my opinion on the film, I personally think that if a story is being adapted from another medium it should be able to stand on it's own and not just be viewed as a cinematic counterpart to the source material.