Fair enough, I didn’t really explain my point very well. I interpreted the authors choice of words more as an emotional critique of things like composition, co

Fair enough, I didn’t really explain my point very well. I interpreted the authors choice of words more as an emotional critique of things like composition, colors, etc. If I saw some poorly written code, and I happened to say, “this code destroys my soul” as a figure of speech. Most people would understand that I just have an intense distaste for the code, not I am not having an existential crisis. From an artistic sense, if I analysed a single frame from the first scene of the Shining, I might use similar language to the author, even though objectively it is just a car on a road.