‘Ghost Boy’ Review: Rodney Ascher’s Doc Is An Extraordinary Story Of Human Resilience – SXSW
deadline.comLike Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237.
Named after the mysterious hotel suite in The Shining, this festival favorite gave a platform to some of the most bizarre readings of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror imaginable.
The theories raised ranged from the esoteric to the ridiculous, but Ascher’s straightforward, non-judgmental approach proved surprisingly effective; though it has long been debunked, the fanciful thought that Kubrick made the film to exorcize his guilt about faking the moon landing footage in 1969 is enticing and still hard to shake off.
Ghost Boy contains some of that, being such an unbelievable true story that it’s almost impossible not to wonder how such a thing can happen, and just how many people have been affected by it: in very real terms, it’s the movie equivalent of someone walking over your grave.
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