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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today,

Cineophilia, movie love.

You know how sometimes you fall in love with a movie, so much you watch it over and over again?

Well, some movie fans take that devotion to a whole other level. For instance,

remember The Shining? Stanley Kubrick's creepy movie about a writer and his family in a haunted

hotel, there are ghosts and rivers of blood and then Jack Nicholson tries to kill everyone.

It's pretty scary. What turns out there are some super fans who have watched The Shining 20 or 30 times,

even frame by frame, and they found what they believe are secret clues, messages that Kubrick hid in the film.

And now there's a movie about those obsessed fans.

It's called Room 237, made by director Rodney Asher. New York Times film critic Manola Dargis thinks it's kind of creepy and kind of fascinating.

He talks to five different movie fans, all of whom have kind of far out ideas about the movie.

It's a documentary, I would say, only in quotation marks, in the sense that they're making all of this up with this material that they've watched.

It's like we are so deep in movie land that inside the movie that we're watching, Room 237, we never have a cutaway to some person like Jeffrey Cox, who's one of the people who has a very wild interpretation of the

movie, you never cut away to see him speaking in, let's say, his living room.

You know, there's no talking headshot of him sitting in an office in the real world.

So for me, it's a kind of acknowledgement that the movie and everything that we're listening to

has no reference in the real world.

And since I'm trained as an historian and my special expertise is in the history of Germany and Nazi Germany in particular,

I became more and more convinced that there is in this film a deeply laid subtext that takes on the Holocaust.

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