We arrive at the Overlook Hotel, a peak beneath a peak. To overlook means not to see something, to pass over without notice, to disregard - meanings that are particularly apropos for the Freudian perspective of a film in which, as in dreams, large hidden forces are indicated only by the smallest of details and thus are easily and willfully overlooked. To overlook is also to look down upon, to command a view, and to survey from above - an accurate description of the physical location of the Overlook Hotel that also embraces an allied meaning: to watch over officially, keep an eye on, look after, superintend, oversee. Connected with this definition of function is one of social or intellectual position and attitude: to look down upon, to slight, treat with contempt, to despise. The Overlook is an aerie around which the eyes of eagles soar and swoop on pinions to survey and mark the trepid ascent of those from below.