Opening The Eye of Harmony

The New Doctor -- 

He's So Young. Hm.

Fascinating. See that? 

That's the retinal structure of The Human Eye! 

The Doctor is Half-Human! No Wonder....!

The Shining (1980) - Jack Enters into Room 237

" The opening sound is from the great funeral mass, Dies Irae, which is the day of judgment, which announces, "This is going to be a funeral. 

"This is going to be about 

A Judgment on The Human Race." 

It's about The Past. 

But I think I remembered that my impression from the opening scene in which that astonishing helicopter shot gives you a totally creepy feeling. You're looking at great, beautiful nature, but you know you're following something. You're, like, flying along on top of this little, tiny, insignificant car. 

It's the ultimate point of view shot without telling you who the point of view is. 

If you want to stop and think about it, you think, 'This is a helicopter shot" 

But for the general audience, all you know is that you are like a ghost. 

You are like an angel. 

You are like something that flies with supernatural abilities across the landscape of the planet. 

And the soundtrack had that skittering... I can't imitate it... but that skittering music that sounded to me... and I was conscious of this the first time I saw the movie... like the thousands of voices from The Past. 

"The Cloud of Witness," as the phrase is in... Dorothy Sayers uses it as the title for some story. The Cloud of Witness, all the ghosts from The Past; And I didn't know. 

Were these the voices of the many crowds of aliens or of ghosts or... 

I didn't know what. 

But already that skittering, high music with that follow shot across the lake and then across the car itself, it was the ultimate in spooky because you had the feeling this car is being followed and it doesn't know it, and we're following it. 

I mean, I could go on for a long time about the symbolism of that with regard to what The Shining really is. 

And The Shining, as we come to understand it, is seeing through all the layers of history and the horrors of history, even autobiographically in that scene where Grady and Jack talk in the blood-red men's room and Grady says, 

"Your Son has a very great talent. 

I don't think you realise 

how great it is. 

He's a very willful boy." 

And Jack says, 

"Yes, he is...

A very willful boy.”

“Did you know, 

Mr. Torrance, 

that Your Son 

is attempting to bring 

An Outside Party 

into this situation?” 

That's Kubrick. 

What he's trying to do is bring The Audience and Humanity into this situation. 

In this movie, he is trying to get through to us all... the human race in the movie theaters watching this... that we are doing these things but don't see it, that we are committing these horrendous things over and over again and then forgetting them... which is... of course, he represents many, many times in the movie... by having characters seem to know something and then not know it and forget it. 

You, uh, chopped your wife and daughter up into little bits. I don't have any recollection of that at all. 

That's like The Human Race. 

We commit atrocities and then forget it.

He's planning to 

TAKE My Body --

so that He will Live 

and I will Die! 

Oh, no! No!!

He has opened 

The Eye of Harmony.

The power source at 

The Heart of The TARDIS.

The TARDIS is My Ship, 

it carries me through Time and Space. 

T-A-R-D-I-S. 

It stands for 

Time and Relative 

Dimension In Space.

He wasn't Dead. It's A Trap. 

Don't you see? It's A Trap. 

He wants me to look into the Eye. 

If I look into The Eye of Harmony, My Soul will be Destroyed 

and He will take My Body!

If The Eye of Harmony isn't closed, 

This Planet will be sucked THROUGH it! 

Grace, I need to fix the timing mechanism 

on The TARDIS and close The Eye. 

I need an atomic clock. 

Grace, please, help me find one.

The Eye of Harmony is Open. 

If I don't close it, 

get My TARDIS

and The Master 

off This Planet, 

This PLANET 

will no longer EXIST!

Grace, we have until midnight.

I shall prove that 

The Eye of Harmony is open. 

Look at this —

You see? Already the molecular structure of The Planet is changing.

At first in subtle ways, but soon in catastrophic ways.

By midnight tonight, 

This Planet will be pulled inside out.

(It is now 9 P.M.)

There will be nothing left.