Eyes Wide Shut

1999
7.5| 2h39m| R| en
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After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
AndresEstradaGzz Kubrick's Gift to us all. "I have seen one or two things in my life but never, never anything like this."
Straker17 This is the first movie I have seen from Stanley Kubrick, and I am already impressed with him. He is able to frame shots perfectly, and the visuals put on the screen look great. He knows how to use a camera well. This movie exudes boldness and confidence. As opposed to many movies that are commonly shown, this movie doesn't move the camera around that much. Kubrick is confident enough in his movie that he doesn't see the need in jerking around the camera to grab his viewers attention. He simply allows the movie to play out. This is a movie that many directors would not want to make. The subject matter of the film practically demands the film to be loaded with nudity, something which makes a director as bold as Kubrick the only logical choice. I was actually shocked at the amount of nudity in this film, and it isn't the first time I have seen nudity either. The fact that he was willing to sow everything he did just goes to show how bold he is as a director. Where this film falls short, however, is in the pacing. This movie is over two and a half hours long and it feels it. It makes this movie very hard to sit through, and I don't think I would sit through it again. While this movie is bold, and it did earn Stanley Kubrick my respect, I don't envision myself watching this movie again in the future.
Anthony Iessi It was Stanley Kubrick's final film.. and what a film it was. The Kubrick filmography after 2001: A Space Odyssey was big budgeted, highly conceived and highly anticipated event pictures. Eyes Wide Shut was given none of the pomp and circumstance in it's marketing campaign and neither was there any in the production phase. If anything, Eyes Wide Shut is a bookend to Kubrick's beautiful cinematic journey. It's a throwback, in many aspects, to the Film Noir wave of the 1950's, of which Kubrick made his name being apart of. In the genres of romance, mystery and suspense, Eyes Wide Shut remains to be one of the greatest films of it's kind ever made.But why? Simply, it's about the minimalism. It's actors are tabloid hollywood caliber, it's sets and locations are based in the everyday and yet Eyes Wide Shut is hauntingly extraordinary. In short, it's dreamlike. The way Kubrick tackles sexual paranoia cuts to core of what every man and woman fears when they are in a monogamous relationship. Kubrick illustrates these fears through the metaphor of the sex cult that Tom Cruise's character visits. Of course, that scene has become famous in it's grandiose imagination and unforgettable mis-en-scene. But the sex cult was never intended to be taken at face value. In fact, many viewers mistakenly assumed that that was what the entire film was centered on. In reality, the cult was just one of the many sexual tests that Cruise is forced to take.Cruise, over the course of the picture is put though a gauntlet of sexual temptation. For instance, visiting the house of the NYC prostitute, or the scene of the emotionally wrought, sexually starving widow of a dead patient. One of the most striking tests for me was the scene in which Cruise buys the costume from Rainbow Fashions, only to discover that the owner has a nymphomaniac of a daughter who he catches with a duo of Asian businessmen. She looks on at Cruise, with a flirtatious grin, telling him without saying a word, that he can have her anytime he wants. Kubrick explores sexual temptations from the covert to the overt and psychotically, the audience is challenged as well. How much would you get away with without your wife or husband knowing? On top of that, Kubrick asks an even scarier question. Are monogamous relationships a sham? Are we all just sexual creatures waiting for the next person to mate with? Nicole Kidman's monologue on her desire to cheat on her own husband is forever chilling. Kubrick, by no uncertain terms wants us to know that women can be just as sexually repressed, and potentially, just as unfaithful if they ever wanted to be.I'll never forget the experience of watching Eyes Wide Shut, and neither will anyone else who watches it. It's the definitive swan song of the career of a man changed cinema as we knew it.
merelyaninnuendo Eyes Wide ShutStanley offers doubts, raises questions and upbeats the entity in this overlong (needs a bit editing) yet a stunning craft in which Tom brings his A game.