Hogan Opening Scene Analysis

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Ten “ah ha” Moments:
The correlation between the moon and number 237:
The moon is 237,000 miles from earth
The room key for room 237 had the word room and an N (for number) as the only letters on the tag and this can only spell “moon” or “room” when together.
The layout of the hotel in the movie is not physically possible:
There is a window with trees and sunlight coming in during the office scene when later it is shown there is a hallway behind that office, no outdoors space.
Another instance is when the kid is riding his bike around the hotel and his paths don't match up as he switches between floors.
While driving a red blank car I the very beginning, a car wreck is shown involving a blank cat, the one Steven king (the author of the
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The director INTENTIONALLY ADDED the maze
Bull-like facial expressions are frequently used
There are two posters that can be seen as connecting the idea of a Minotaur

3 least convincing and why
Faked apollo 11 moon landing
There is no evidence to support the directors IQ, it's just “rumoured” he had a 200 IQ, which is statistically very unlikely.
The apollo 11 moon landing photos have been proven to be real.
Every aspect critics believe to be false has an explanation- For example, shadows that don't match up can be explained by the geography of the moon.

Interesting: One argument for noticing some of these things is that the director intentionally wanted viewers to see changes due to the depth perception used while filming, that made it easier to catch.

Note: I found this documentary to be incredibly biased as everything was theory and there weren't any facts. Many statements began by saying “it's rumoured that”, which is not very convincing. The interviewees sometimes even made their bias worse by trying to use ethos stating their job (one person being involved in the holocaust history), which actually gives the feeling: “of course they would think that, that's what they study