Eyes Wide Shut

July. 16,1999      R
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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.

Tom Cruise as  Dr. William Harford
Nicole Kidman as  Alice Harford
Sydney Pollack as  Victor Ziegler
Julienne Davis as  Mandy
Todd Field as  Nick Nightingale
Rade Šerbedžija as  Milich
Marie Richardson as  Marion Nathanson
Vinessa Shaw as  Domino
Alan Cumming as  Desk Clerk
Sky du Mont as  Sandor Szavost

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Reviews

EarDelightBase
1999/07/16

Waste of Money.

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ThiefHott
1999/07/17

Too much of everything

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Megamind
1999/07/18

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

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Humaira Grant
1999/07/19

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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yeral yeral (ismetyeral)
1999/07/20

Stanley Kubrickin's controversial film, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman is also an important step for the careers of the players. A married couple's psycho-sexual counterparts; a fantasy world full of seashells, and a high-tension cannabis that will finally be pierced. When Dr. William Harford (Tom Cruise) learns about the sexual pleasures that his wife has hidden up to that day, a new page filled with suspicion, horror and sexual exploits opens up in her life ... Kubrick is a game for everyone with masterful footage, he opens his eyes to the end.The 1999 Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's latest film which has left behind the unforgettable films of the director in many genres. Audience starring Dr. Nicole Kidman in the role of Alice Harford in the role of William 'Bill' Harford, Madison Eginton in the role of Helena Harford, Todd Field in the role of Sydney Pollack and Leslie Lowe and Nick Nightingale as Illona Ziegler with Victor Ziegler marks. In addition to being the director's latest film, Eyes Wide Shut, which is produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, has created the most question marks in film history and also has the title of controversial film. In addition to creating the Filmin screenplay with Kubrick's Frederic Raphael, the film is actually an adaptation of the Austrian novel Arthur Schnitzler's novel Traumovelle. In the movie Kubrick protects the atmosphere created by Novella, sexuality and psychoanalytical creations are intertwined, creating a tense atmosphere in a dream analysis. This nightmare journey, which takes place with Freud's psychoanalytic thoughts in his novels of Schnitzler, is carried to a visual world in the hands of Kubrick, and the film takes a great journey through the film. In this journey, the viewer is invited into a married couple's sexual world. With this invitation, your sexuality will see the stimulating nudges of the sexuality and meet with the wild pleasures and erotic thrill that come with these nudibranches. Eyes Wide Shut is an unforgettable film that creates itself especially at the point where eroticism and tension are combined and creates a manifestation of the sex appeal in fantasy with an enormous composition. The meticulous sensitivity to Stanley Kubrick's films appears in his latest film Eyes Wide Shut. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who starred in Filmin, made a deal with Kubrick for the film for a while, because Kubrick could not tell how long it would take for Filmin to be perfect. On top of that, Vincent D'Onofrioi, who plays Leonard Lawrence's character in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, offered a house near Cruz and Kidman's set because a rumor began that Kubrick's perfectionist attitude would take him a long time to perfect. With the beginning of the project, Kubrick's perfectionist attitude showed itself. For example, Cruise's portrayal of Dr. As William (Bill) Harford did not get the desired effect from Kubrick on a scene from the door, Cruise portrayed the same scene 95 times and Cruise passed through the same door 95 times for a few seconds. In many such films, Kubrick's perfectionist attitude brought a film and a Guinness record. The shoots that started in the autumn of 1996 gave a film record with the longest shooting time until the end of January 1998.Stanley Kubrick has always included in the pleasure and love films he heard for classical music. A Clockwork Orange and Ludwig van Beethoven comes to mind, revealing the classical music passion in Kubrick's cinema. This same passion applies to Eyes Wide Shut. Dr. There is an access code for the mysterious party William Harford will join through his pianist friend. With this access code, partisans get together and get a 'chance' to experience the erotic tension inside. The password for entering the manor is also Fidelio. Fidelio is a Latin word and rooted in faithful words. Besides this, Fidelio is the name of the first and only opera composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1971. We see that a woman in the Fidelio named operative is doing her job to save her boyfriend's love and we meet her loyalty-credibility. In addition to showing Kubrick's passion for classical music through a word, we see the Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart among the Filmin soundtrack album. Requiem Bill Harford meets the audience on stage, where he finds out that 'Mysterious Woman' is dead by overdose.Eyes Wide Shut is about a married couple who both enjoys sex with one another, as well as enjoying eroticism. It was one of Filmin's most important goals to reflect this element, as the feelings in the eroticism bodies along with the nudges and fantasies of Bill Harford and Alice Harford couple were the most provocative elements. For this, Kubrick followed two different methods for two different desire reflections. These were the sex scenes of Harford's married couple. In order to reflect the monogamy and privacy of this sex scene, Kubrick worked in the set off the set and even pulled the players in their natural state without noticing that the camera recorded it. It was the scene where Alice, who was the second junkie, set up a fantasy she liked with another man. Tom Cruise was removed from the set for the shooting of this scene and even Kubrick was banned from entering the set. Along with this ban, Nicole Kidman has taken sex scenes with a male model in 50 different positions. Kubrick also banned Kidman from telling Cruise at the same time about the shootings and what happened. In this uncertainty, Cruise's envy toward Kidman was used as a major thriller in Kubrick's film.Eyes Wide Shut film Freudian made some changes and additions in the Kubrick scenario, while Arthur Schnitzler, a psychoanalytical mentality, adapted from cinematographer Traumnovelle. Among these attachments is the mirror scene in the film, one of the biggest problematic scenes for viewers. This scene, which can be read through Lacan's Theory of Mirror, takes place in cinema history as an unknown of Kubrick's genius. Yet another important feature of this scene is another phenomenon. This scene in front of Mirror of Crucifixion and Cruise appeared in front of the audience with 90 minutes in the filmin trailer and 90 seconds in the trailer hit the scene of influence and under the influence of the audience they encountered a big shock in the film because this scene is only 20 seconds in the film. This manipulation created by Kubrick on the audience and this little game that he plays has created a distinction between what appears in the mirror scene and the invisible, and the secret behind the mirror scene has become a matter of curiosity.Alice and Bill Harford's house was originally designed as a replica house. It's a copy of Stanley Kubrick's house in New York. Even in the 1960s, when Stanley Kubrick's wife and Christiane's house resurfaced, even the set pieces were used to reflect Kubrick's house. This copying process, starting from the same thing as the furniture, was soon turned into a more personalized one by Kubrick. In the film, all the tables at home are like Christiane's tables, just like Kubrick's home. The fact that Harford's house has been personally transformed into Kubrick's house keeps the question of whether Kubrick goes out of an autobiographical story all the time. However, Kubrick has also created this personality trait for players. Cruise and Kidman, who are also married in real life, have begun to stay in the bedrooms of Harford, a married couple. They chose the curtains of the double room, where they spent their time, and the spaces in the film were transformed into personal spaces.

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Saiyan_Prince_Vegeta
1999/07/21

First, lets start with technical aspect. The dialogues and the scenes in the movie are something else - they are long and slow, which is quite unusual for movies. The scenes are very slow, but they glue you to the screen. You have intense feeling while watching the movie and the movie is mysterious. You have to watch this movie in a slow, relaxed, immersed state - don't expect action here. This movie is really well directed and is truly a piece of cinematographic art in different ways - dialogues, story, meaning, scenes, looks. Tom Cruise is beautiful, more adult and already looks more like Ethan Hunt here, which is cool. Nicole Kidman is beautiful as well. Keep in mind there's really a lot of nudity here, so you might not want to show or recommend it to everyone. * What is the movie about and what is the lesson? * The whole movie I was asking myself "Why would she tell her husband that she wanted to have sex with another man?! That can totally ruin their relationship, it was not necessary to tell that!". However, after reading reviews, it seems that actually the movie is about on sexual relationship and fantasies and that you NEED to be open about some things like that. When a couple does not share their fantasies or desires then they might start fantasizing bad things, like cheating with someone else who can fullfill these desires. As a result, they both started fantasizing about cheating. Thus, it is important to tell your desires or thoughts to the partner, to make sure they know what you want. As some people have noticed, there are really many sexual scenes in this movie with different types of people, which all might represent something, no one knows for sure, so there are many theories, but I guess it is open for interpretation on purpose.I think it is worth reading fan theories, for example on reddit I've seen some really interesting theories.

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pbk2010
1999/07/22

In the film, Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise) is a married doctor in an upper class neighborhood in New York. When Dr. Bill finds out from his wife (at the time, his real-life wife, Nicole Kidman) that she's considered cheating on him, he embarks on a strange journey of encounters throughout the night that takes him to the decadent underworld of the rich and famous.At a jazz club at closing, he meets an old friend from medical school, Nick. Now a jazz piano player, Nick tells him about a party he will be playing the piano for later, but he must play totally blind because of the debauchery that takes place there. All of the people wear long hooded cloaks with Venetian masks, so Cruise ends up renting out a similar costume and takes a taxi to a Hellfire mansion out in the country where Nick will be performing. Hellfire Clubs are meeting places of persons of high quality (politicians, Hollywood executives, etc) who want to take part in extremely immoral acts. Their activities included mock religious ceremonies, devil worship, and occult rituals.The music in the movie changes drastically when Cruise arrives at the Hellfire mansion. Right after Cruise enters this mansion, the very odd song heard in the background is called "Backwards Priests" and features Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy played backward. The reversal or inversion of sacred objects is typical of black magic and satanic rituals. By having this Christian liturgy played backward right before widespread fornication, it's a way of stating that the "elite of the world" is nothing less than satanic!Although none of this is actually mentioned in Eyes Wide Shut, the entire movie can be interpreted as one big "magick sex" journey, characterized by a back-and-forth between opposing forces: life and death - pleasure and pain - male and female - light and darkness! A great film that raises a lot of moral implications. A film one should watch with eyes wide OPEN!

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Anthony Iessi
1999/07/23

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.

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