I agree with the link you make about the weather and of course it's not the complete image of the movie, it is just a small review of the scene. I seem to remember that Mr. King didn't like Kubrick's version at all and made his own version I can't remember if it was made for television. Like you, I certainly think that here there is a deep knowledge of the effects of cold on the bio-psych, although the cold-heat relationship and how it changes the body chemistry I see it in the opposite way to the documentary "Wendigo" (Wendy? ) because the first place where Jack is locked up is in the cold room of the kitchen, then he is attacked in the cold room of the bathroom and the last place where he dies is in the frozen labyrinth, I deduce that it must be a loss of energy, because as you suggest it has to do with a possession, as I understand, one of the hard phases is the control by a very malevolent enthroned entity that is hooked to the controlled, that added to the hotel that I think is on an indigenous cemetery which seems to be very appropriate.I really like your deep take on Kubrick/King's MK-Ultra and other symbolic acts that occur in the Shining. But It may not be completely the whole picture.
There's another side to this, which is more "wendigo/windigo". Isolation in many months of deep cold and snow can change your mind. It doesn't break you in November when everything dies and the north winds come in and start to freeze everything. But by February or March, the relentless winds and can cold break you. If you don't take the proper "mental" hygiene the isolation and the quiet come after you.
I do think Kubrick and King had some knowledge of this phenomenon. Here we call it "Kee-Way-Tin" the voice or spirit of the north wind. It freezes your blood when you walk into it. It's both a physical and mental torture. If you check out "Windigo Psychosis" papers it was or maybe still is considered a legitimate mental health illness.
It is more likely possession. It's hard to explain it to people who haven't experienced that long silence, ice and cold for a prolonged period, but when you do - The Shining becomes completely believable when you throw someone who doesn't know what to look for as a threat into that situation.
Not a movie - but a great recount of some of those same elements that happen in the north...
The first time I saw The Shining I didn't understand much, I read it as a man who had gone to a hotel with his family and suddenly wanted to kill them and they were running away and defending themselves, I even laughed... When you don't have the knowledge to understand the whole package of information sometimes the link is activated and it is in many cases when suddenly one is told: "it reminds me of the film such as ....".
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