This scene manifests as a vision of Danny’s early in the film, and receives multiple callbacks as the story progresses. Given the subject matter of the plot and the discussion above, it can easily be inferred that this blood is meant to represent “the blood of the centuries, the blood of millions, and, in particular, the blood of war and genocide in Kubrick’s own century” (Cocks “The Wolf at the Door” 2). The grotesque nature of this shot emphasizes the senselessness and brutality of war and, specifically, genocide. It puts dry, meaningless statistics into perspective by presenting the audience with a tangible, albeit hasty view into the true implications of murder at magnitudes like that of the