The Shining may have been released over 40 years ago, but viewers are still noticing new details in Stanley Kubrick's terrifying classic. One such viewer is writer and Kubrick scholar Filippo Ulivieri, who pointed out (in a 50-part Twitter thread) that lead actor Jack Nicholson, who plays the Overlook Hotel's caretaker Jack Torrance, breaks the fourth wall – not once, not twice, but several times in the movie, but it happens so fast that it's a blink-or-you'll-miss-it situation.
Ulivieri points out that when a character usually breaks the fourth wall in a movie or TV show, it happens just once. "What Nicholson does in The Shining is instead completely different," he explains. "It does not feel deliberate, and it may well escape our perception. In fact, as I said, I’m not aware of anybody noticing it so far."
