The most intriguing fact about the final photo is that it simply doesn’t exist until after Jack’s death. Stanley Kubrick has it magically appearing on the wall only in the last shot of the movie. You can have any opinion you like but that opinion must include why the photo is nowhere to be found either on that wall or any other inside The Overlook at any other time in the movie. Stanley Kubrick Didn't just forget to hang the 1921 picture up. Many viewers have missed this. Every other time we see those 21 pictures in the movie they’re different and the July 4th 1921 picture simply isn’t there. It doesn’t exist until the end of the movie because Jack is alive and in the final shot he isn't.
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