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A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Tom Cruise: Dr. William 'Bill' Harford
Stanley Kubrick's last film results in an explosion of surprises. On one hand it is drenched with sex and revelations, ending up being even slower than any of his previous works. Yet on the other hand it captures imagination, secrets and forbidden relationships.
Kubrick has always given us the weird and visionary standards with his film making efforts. With Eyes Wide Shut it is a very human, very colourful study delving into the primal urges of sexual desire.
There is beautiful imagery, haunting penetrating music, and wonderful shots with clever cinematography.
The film unleashes a varied onslaught via frequent trips to the land of surrealism and mystery yet elevates itself with some unusual scenes.
The masked party seems to me to be the main point of interest in Eyes Wide Shut where Kubrick uses mystery suspense and a feel of foreboding in the proceedings yet it's feeling seems to fade once said scene is over. We see Cruise spiral into torment and sometimes madness as he tries to unravel the mysteries and puzzles.
Scenarios presented involve unfaithfulness, desire and an obsession with lust and sex. Nicole Kidman plays the troubled wife quite well with jealousy and emotion seeping from her character; She is subject to dreams and dark secrets of her own.
It is safe to say the film provokes more tantalizing questions than answers, yet we the audience, true to Kubrick, fill in the blanks with our own conclusions and imagination.
Granted Kubrick gets across his lustful, if what perverted disposition, which shows a mind of unrivaled proportions but it's the execution of Eyes Wide Shut that makes it appealing and one for countless debates.
When I reached the end conclusion I was bemused at the confusion and even more puzzled by an ending that is simple yet with dialogue that shows a marriage and sexual tension between two people.
Eyes Wide Shut was very clever and thrilling yet may leave behind anyone whom is unadjusted to Kubrick's psychedelic, trippy style.
Kubrick's last montage equals a piece which is his most human and perhaps in many ways his most psychological, his most disturbing, and his most artistic. The film is a 9 year marriage with seeds of doubts being planted, a masked party that turns into a warped orgy, one man's journey across the city to discover a moral and sexual answer to appease his mind and emotions.
Eyes Wide Shut is deviant, perverted and puzzling yet it is also a fascinating into the mind set of Stanley Kubrick in his final days. What a strange mind and portrait we end up with. Certainly one to be watched a few times and even then, you will pick up something different every time.
''I have seen one or two things in my life but never, never anything like this.''
8/10
