Many people believe that this movie is full of secrets and hidden messages when really, it is just another horror movie. If Kubrick wanted people to see a hidden message, then he would have made them obvious enough to were the majority of viewers would understand the message. I think that once somebody watches the same film over and over trying to find a secret, then they will eventually find something or make something up. I think the people that saw the skiing poster and said that it was actually a Minotaur were desperate and just wanted to find something that nobody else had seen before. I think the same goes for the people who thought that the entire movie was based off of Apollo 11 because of one scene where Danny was wearing a shirt that said "Apollo 11" on it. There were many arguments that involved Indian artifacts and the Calumet flour. I think the Indian artifacts are there because they found them when they wer building the hotel. I believe that the Calumet flour was at the hotel because Kubrick wanted to remind the audience that the hotel was built on a Indian burial ground, and to make the hotel feel as though it was haunted by the