I've watched the film several times and known that there's those black cards all along, but I never really kept score of them, so I was just curious about how many there are. So given current circumstances I sat down recently and kept score of them, that's the basic idea. So now I know and I'd like to talk about them a bit.
To your real point (why?), the "days" do indicate a two-day passage of time, where things and scenes change a bit. The audience takes this for granted, the cards are banalities that just pass by, marking time, but still giving useful information on timing. Going into the third act, things speed up. Hallorann hops a plane in real nigga hours and is en route by 8am.
Timing is also important, something I don't recall Ager took up very much. One thing that really stuck out to me this past screening was the repeated mention of the "five months" interval. And inconsistently, which goes with the well-developed schizo/autistic theory of the film up to this point.
William Sanders
The shinning is real
Nathaniel Wood
Imagine the cops' reaction when they recovered the body
Landon Sanchez
ask the people that took the initial picture
Parker Wright
The July ball picture was a real picture that Jack Nicholson's face was airbrushed into. The posture of the man he replaced is already a part of the original photograph. Kubrick said he chose that particular photo because the faces of everyone in the crowd were quintessentially 1920s, and obviously the composition of the photo is suitable for story's purposes, your eye is drawn to the man in front who has a similar build to Nicholson.
Another autistic theory disproven through 30 seconds of research
>You can't come to your own conclusions about a film, you have to listen to what the director said he wanted, even if he speaks very vaguely and very rarely about what his films mean, and what certain things represent
