What’s Aged the Worst?
Treatment of Shelley Duvall
In the discussion (5)
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- The old woman and bear-costume scene are offered as disturbing imagery rather than failed effects; the woman’s identity remains uncertain.
- Cutting the snowcat phone call is proposed and its length disputed; leaving the hotel occasionally is defended as making the return more intense. — Bill Simmons
- Stories of Duvall’s stress, illness and harsh treatment during repeated takes are discussed with concern and compared with Nicholson’s response. — Bill Simmons
- Conspiratorial readings are criticized; Room 237 is defended as a portrait of interpretation, and nostalgia for freer online film discussion complicates the objection. — Chris Ryan
- The treatment of Duvall becomes the final reluctant aged-worst selection after a debate about the social danger of conspiracy thinking.