Eyes Wide Shut | Moral Of The Story (Film Analysis)
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- Few movies in cinematic history can equal the intrigue of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's swan song. Being the final film of Kubrick's storied career, there is an understandable desire to figure out what Eyes Wide Shut attempts to communicate. Is it a moral condemnation of elites, or is it another exploration of how humans confront their primordial drives? In this video, I breakdown the many thematic layers of Kubrick's film and what we can take away to improve our lives.
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I remember distinctly yhe newspaper Bill picked up with the front cover boldly stating "Lucky to be alive."
When he said “nuclear family”, did the narrator here pronounce “nuclear” as “nuke-you-lur”? 😂😂
From what I can gather, I think the song playing during the ritual is called 'Masked Ball' by Jocelyn Pook... the haunting vocals in the track are actually a Romanian chant played backwards. Also, one thing that I found interesting is that movie mirrored life. When the organ player goes missing, we are not sure if he was killed by the elites or not... the same could be said of Kubrick himself for exposing such a world.
Interestingly, the Romanian chant was actually that of the Divine Liturgy, the ultimate rite in Christianity also known as the mass in the western church namely the Roman Catholic. Kubrick could have known that and if he did it was a master stroke since this was obviously the ultimate rite in whatever cult thing this was.
Nothing was exposed by Kubrick lol
See Jonathan Kleck You Are Exiles and Strong's Concordance, precise linguist translation of hebrew and greek. Will blow your mind. Rotchilds and other 'elites' who run Davos and most governments behind the scenes are Genesis 3.15 and 6.4 nephilim DNA. Bloodlines who also run Vatican. Adamic race is their target. See also 9 11 and Rev 9 11 rise of their father from hell.
Art is a reflection of life
@@ryanscottwrightyour Eyes are literally wide shut.
Saying Kubrick film isn't about exposing the elites is at the same time laughable and true. The film obviously is much deeper than just exposing the elites, but it sure as hell exposes a ton for those who do not have their eyes wide shut. The amount of information in this film, like in all of Kubrick films, is staggering.
man was too woke for his time
You think he made this to help you lol? They rub it right in your face because its part of their religion. Mockery. Of course everything they do is sprinkled with lies, even in the rare cases that they do show some truths.
Much is ommitted from this film that leads you to a false conclusion, and so as revealing as it might seem to someone who is ignorant, it actually in reality is misleading, and more harmful than good
@@AudioJeep I know what I know, I have enough research spent on these issues. The way Kubrick did hide his information on the films since he moved to England in the early 60s has been so complex that it's far from "rubbing it in your face", even thought I agree that most that the elites do is exactly that.
I think it's quite ignorant to assume other people ignorant without some actual evidence.
The premise was inspired by an illvminated elite...
It was mainly about Dr. Harford and his desire to join the upper class. Himself, being middle approaching upper middle class finds there is a huge chasm between the elites and everyone else. Kubrick just is expressing the obvious that the elites control everything as they always have and probably will for a long time.
0:51 Stanley, Kubrick had it in his contract that he had final say on the film.
When he showed the studio heads the film, they demanded a section be taken out.
He argued that it's in his contract. They can't take it out.
They murder him and they remove the scene and release the film without the scene
The scene is there, just watered down
The editor of the movie would disagree
What was the scene do you know
@@phoebs50 probably some children stuff.
@@phoebs50 supposedly it was children being exploited at the party
Kubrick was a genius,great analysis of a true masterpiece.
Stanley Kubrick died unexpectedly 666 days after 1-1-2001. '2001: A Space Odyssey' was probably the film he was most known for. Punishment?
@@josephinetracy1485what? He died on march 7th 1999
@@Wade_Fucking_Wilson I was mistaken; it was 'before." So there were 666 days between 3-7-99 and 1-1-01.
@@Wade_Fucking_Wilson I think she meant before 2001
@@Scorp1onEDITZ yeah
Beautiful simplified and understandable analogy for anyone who appreciates the complexities and diversity of this film
From mysticism, to religion, to history, sexuality, and filming technique itself.
A big scene that stands out for me is when Kubrick decides to cameo and it’s when the protagonist is introduced to the party and the code word fidellio
When later asked for the second password, Dr. Bill should have replied "um, could it be SWORDFISH ?" rather than "I don't know".
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Fellatio might be an apt guess
@@hwingerrr5680 🤣🤣🤣🤣
See Jonathan Kleck You Are Exiles and Strong's Concordance, precise linguist translation of hebrew and greek. Will blow your mind. Rotchilds and other 'elites' who run Davos and most governments behind the scenes are Genesis 3.15 and 6.4 nephilim DNA. Adamic race is their target. See also 9 11 and Rev 9 11 rise of their father from hell.
That wasn't kubrick
He was definitely exposing some truths. You have to sacrifice your first child to be a member of the club. The couple bring their bond, their mutual love to the toy store. Instead of picking out a toy their daughter was picked up as a toy by the two gentleman you see seated at a table through the entrance of the mansion in the beginning of the film. They lost their integrity. Innocence taken away. The innocent pay for decisions they themselves didn't make.
That’s a whole lot of conjecture. But, that’s what’s great about Kubrick’s films, everyone sees something different.
when does the daughter get picked out by them? i keep watching that final scene and cannot see what you people keep claiming to see
Weirdest take , nothing of the sort happens in the movie .
@@WillPhilpin i have literally no clue what people keep talking about this, it doesn’t happen
@@thebasedgodmax1163 People want their theory to be true, so as soon as they convince themselves, they try to convince other people. Like a conspiracy virus. Until they read Traumnovelle.
Honestly this video really helped me to understand myself and humanity. I can’t keep judging them when I myself am like a tiger, unable to act against my desires and my wild nature. I have to be better. We must be better. It’s so easy to get lost in it all. So easy. Truly a test of God.
I think we are created to pass the test of desires and self-control for an internal reward by the All Mighty God
Test by Satan not God
@@tierracharnea you don’t know God like I do. It’s allowed by God so that we can overcome our natures and be better
@@guessdxb not so much internal reward as it is to live like Christ, the Son of God, who was made to be an inspiration to humans to be better and to live like he did with infinite compassion, kindness, but also sternness and a healthy amount of self confidence, but not to the point it becomes prideful. Balanced. The reward is Heaven.
What are you saying? That you're a pedo? wtf - The stroller. Leelee being in the film at 16 is KUBRICK showing you directly "Look what Hollywood allows", The fact LeeLee's character isn't shunned and nothing is resolved. It simply is what it is. Very sad but very real. Their daughter basically being "picked up" to indicate the elites own their family now. One thing I don't understand is how Nicole Kidman could dream in such vivid detail the exact process the Illuminati humiliation ritual involves being stripped naked and made to serve lust and give in to carnal desires and become them etc. or just get exposed for blackmail and humiliation because they love humiliation for some reason. She's not a prophet though.... Did they drug her and actually do this? I don't understand this and it's never addressed. How could she have a dream so vivid when she had no idea prior of this or Tom's involvement with everything yet....
Moral is simple, FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT
One of the reasons I love Kubrick so much is that air of mystery that comes from not giving the audience simple straightforward answers on a silver platter. It makes me pay better attention. When it comes to Kubrick films, I have to re-watch multiple to try to catch as much as I can.
I've read the book by Arthur Schnitzler which Eyes Wide Shut is based on. It's never actually implied that jealousy is purely what drives the husband to try and cheat, but that this "event", his wife's confession of longing, has appeared and disrupted his seemingly stable and "happy" life. This guy is straight laced to the T., runs his own medical practice, has a beautiful wife and daughter, up-market city apartment, wealthy circle of friends, etc, etc. He's a living candidate for sleepwalking through life, a naive illusion of stability, hence the title, Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick does something crafty here; by cutting to the black and white images of Kidman rolling around in bed with the Naval officer he misleads the audience into thinking that the sexual act, or fantasy of the sexual act, is primarily what's bothering Bill Harford. It's more nuanced than that.
In his prologue to Schnitzler's book, the film's screenwriter Frederic Raphael asserts that the "confession" scene in the bedroom is meant to symbolize a therapy session. The wife is like the blubbering patient and the husband the quiet, attentive listener. Only it's turned on it's head. Instead of coming to a breakthrough, her confession instead creates a trauma in the husband's mind. In this instance the therapist is the one who goes a little mad. And before he can heal the mental wound by talking about it with her; the opportunity is interrupted by the maid (in the film by a phone call) ushering the husband to the house of his patient. Henceforth he gets got caught in a kind of loop, where unconsciously, and uncannily; he repeatedly has near-sexual encounters which mirror his wife's fantasy of "the missed opportunity." Apparently this is a very real phenomena that was explored by Sigmund Frued and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan would later coin 'Repition Compulsion.' And "that which is forgotten tends to be repeated, unconsciously" according to Frued.
Equating the couple's dreams and fantasies with waking life as equally important is also typical Freud. Then there's the themes of death and sex which are continually being contrasted with each other throughout the story. Each one is worth of it's own essay. It's all very fascinating, but, to it's own detriment, this film isn't at all accessible to those not familiar with or interested in Psychology, early 20th century psychoanalytical archetypes. Kubrick obviously knew this, so casted Hollywood's sexiest couple and jazzes up the film's promotional material probably in the hopes that it would make the film more approachable for mainstream audiences, especially American audiences. All this stuff happens to be an area I'm interested with so I enjoy the insights into jealousy, dreams, paranoia and 'The Uncanny.'
I read that Kubrick discovered Schniztler's books and stage plays in the 60s. He considered his work and to be "genuinely psychologically brilliant." In a letter that Freud personally dedicated to Schnitzler in the 1910s, he wrote: “I have gained the impression that you have learnt through intuition - though actually as a result of sensitive introspection - everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons (patients)"
I have to say, one wonders what they were putting into the water in Vienna a century or so ago to produce those authors with such a capacity to enter into the human soul, and then render it into art like that. Stefan Zweig was another impressive writer from Vienna whom I discovered through Kubrick; in the late 50s Kubrick and Harris made various attempts to adapt Zweig's 'The Burning Secret' to no avail.
Thank you for conveying such interesting and nuanced information to us with such skill! I absolutely must read this novel!
The Movie is about mankind's Sin. How contagious it is. How when sin hits your mind, it imbalances you. And will lead you to dark places and death. And sometimes all that will save you from it, is good luck.
The passage from Genesis re: adam and eve revealed to me a new way to view this film. Terrific analysis. Kubrick was truly the master.
I’ve seen this film many times and had watched it repeatedly before learning about any of the conspiracy theory interpretations. This video is an excellent summary of my perception of the work’s meaning. Great stuff.
I think the final scene is the most important of the film, she admits her love for him and when she says there's something we need to do, fuck, she admits her carnal nature and desire. marriage is a sacred place where the canal can be acted out safely with love which is the real unifying bond. in the Bible it says that wifes should give way to husbands and husbands should give way to wifes so that the devil will not come and temp you. 1 Corinthians 7
AMEN!
Amen
Amen
What if you marry the devil?
I’m an Atheist but AMEN
6:55 You absolutely right, It is a very beautiful shot!
And very much like the poster of the movie, but it's Kidman who's got her eye(s) wide open on that. There's also a two-face mask at the cult gathering. I think, if you are well-versed in Freudian analysis, there's a whole bucket of goodies to unlock here. The self we show ourselves and others, and the true self that we don't always like or want to really know. Kubrick obviously loved playing with that duality.
Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's adaptation of the 1926 novella titled Traumnovelle or Dream Story, the author was an Austrian named Arthur Schnitzler. Some of the dialogue and scenarios from the movie are word for word the same as the book. The book was set in early Vienna so Kubrick just changed it to modern times and Greenwich Village New York for Eyes Wide Shut. Amazing book and movie.
Have you read the book? How much difference between the book and movie?
@@Ironman-BB the main differences are in the settings. Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler is set in Vienna in the early 1900's, Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is set in Greenwich Village during Christmas season during the late 1900's. The character names are different as well obviously, but most of the story is identical, including a lot of the dialogue. Kubrick did the same thing with A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, and Lolita as well.
Wow, that was the best succinct analysis of the film I've seen in my attempts to glean important questions and its overall messages. Also one of the few to incorporate inherent religious tie-ins, despite Kubrick's beliefs and non-judgments made about the ramifications of actions taken within the story. Bravo.
Couldn't agree more.
Two things, and I haven't seen this in a long while so I may be miss remembering, but... Bill finding the mask on his pillow wasn't just some self-help push he needed to open up to Alice, it was an obvious threat to the lives of his family if he investigated the orgy further...a little reminder "we can get to you anywhere", and a reminder of the staggering power that evil cabals have. Second, in the final scene in the toy store, while bill and Alice ostensibly reconcile, their daughter just wanders off, in the direction of older men... Perhaps a sign that she will be subsumed into that evil culture, but at the very least a reminder that you never "get over" battling evil, and if you think you do, something precious is about to vanish while you take a victory lap.
This was much less a self-analysis movie than the author is making it into, and more a condemnation of the decadent and debauched culture of elites.
I agree, the way Kubrick presented it, many people probably ask themselves "Is Alice dead or asleep?" when they see her next to the mask (I did), and they think the cult got into the apartment somehow and killed her. However, since Alice isn't dead, and there is no talk about fleeing from the cult, we kind of forget that before the end of the movie. False alarm. Also, I believe many people think, "They should be watching their daughter, she could get kidnapped" during the toy store scene, but they don't make the conclusion that she has been kidnapped, let alone kidnapped by the cult. And nobody points out that Red Cloak told Bill he shouldn't say a single word to anyone, but Tom breaks down and tells Alice "everything". Hence, there is a plot line there that begs for something awful to happen to Bill or his family, or at least for Bill to afraid something will happen. In the toy store, Bill seems strangely unbothered by what has happened in the rest of the movie, in my opinion.
Excellent comment!
It’s both. A movie doesn’t have to just be about one thing.
Agreed😎
I always took it as his wife was at the gathering... the very 1st time I seen it in my it was her. He was watching his own wife getting taken down her dream was just a deja vu of it
With better luck and timing, we could've been gifted three more Kubrick films: (1) Napoleon biopic - doomed by the 1970 release and commercial failure of Waterloo (2) A.I. - which Spielberg competently brought to the screen; but imagine if Kubrick realized this vision (3) The Aryan Papers - which Kubrick abandoned after Spielberg masterfully crafted Schindler's List. While appreciative for the Kubrick cinematic catalog that exists, I can't help but imagine if the aforementioned trio of movies came to light.
I'm happy we got the version of AI that we did. That flick was Kubrick by proxy, and Spielberg had his blessing.
@11:35 "This is not a picture Dorian Gray". Very insightful!!💯
The same people at the Xmas party it’s the same people at the castle late that night.
Alice dancing with the Hungarian guy knew what was all about because she was part of the whole thing too.
Bill was the missing link that they wanted in, the piano man telling him about where he was playing next, the models taking him to the end of the rainbow, the 2 guys at the gate of the castle practically waiting for him, renting the cloak at the store, Alice calling him to ask him at what time he will be home, Ziegler and his wife with their masks in the balcony saying “hello” with their heads, Mandy going straight to him to kiss him. Everything was a set up for him to see what was going on and join. This movie is great! It’s created so you can come up with your own theory about society. Amazing!
Alice was already in the club?
Idk if that was made clear to the viewer
I want what you smoke
@@mbelma6329 Alice was indeed getting smashed in the gathering
I think you got it backwards. Ziegler nodded at bill to warn him then he sent the girl that overdosed at his 1st gathering to let bill know he was in danger
Great analysis, i like how you managed to say things that make sense while not diving too deep down the rabbit hole that people who analyse kubricks movies ofte n fall into. I don't think this video explains everything, but it does help solving parts of the puzzle that is eyes wide shut while still having two feets grounded in reality.
There really isn't diving too deep into rabbit hole of Kubrick films, there are people who shy away from that, do not have the knowledge/wisdom/intelligence or who do not put down enough work. Obviously there are wrong theories, but the correct ones that actually have the evidence to back it up are what most people think are probably the craziest ones.
"having two feets grounded in reality" is a synonym of keeping your eyes wide shut. After having spent the better part of the last two decades researching the things Kubrick has in his films I have to say that the realism of most people is total dream land where almost everything is a lie.
@@juzujuzu4555 where did i say that every single theory is wrong? But at least 95% are. And im being generous. People who have worked with kubrick and even kubrick himself have said that these theories are pure nonsense. But let me guess... they are in on the conspiracy to keep it secret?
@@alexarsy1015 Where did I say you did say every theory is wrong?
Based on my research on Kubrick films (over thousand hours of research) I would say big portion of the theories are part of the whole.
"This film is about x" theories are pretty much all wrong in a sense, Kubrick films are not simply about just one thing, but for the most part that theory is one part of the whole.
Kubrick didn't want to reveal anything about his films so his denial is obvious.
To be fair, I mostly have researched 2001, The Shining and EWS, so if there are tons of theories about other films, I don't know about those and they might be shite.
The Shining is the film I have researched the most. And the amount of details, and evidence on that film is staggering. Many of the theories have proofs in almost every single scene.
But I don't want to argue about this topic. I just highly encourage to open up to these theories more, even though most are wrong about their initial claim that the film is about that one thing.
Many say Kubrick is one of the most intelligent person who ever lived. And I have to agree. Even though that intelligence is only part of what makes him so amazing. Amazing work ethic, him accumulating knowledge like a sponge and having lots of people feeding him knowledge. And his perfectionism.
In the movie, Bill dodges an STD by not cheating. In reality, his wife gives him an STD after cheating on him. THAT would've been far more realistic and heartbreaking to add to the movie.
I was 14 years old when I first saw some of this movie on Cinemax late at night . Oddly enough I caught it during the cult scene …nothing beats that curiosity and excitement when you see something like that as a kid .
Then you stuck around after the movie when skinamax came on
Beats.....😂😂😂😂😂
Ew
@@NeVerWintegen z doesn’t use that boomer term. 64. Not 14.
Keeping in mind that the original story is by Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writter/playwriter of late 19th Century Vienna only adds to Kubrick's genial adaptation. Brilliant.
Kubrick’s films are about one thing. Control. As in life, his creativity was suffused with his desire to exercise it and explore it. From his early films each of his characters is battling a form of control. Sexual, political, moral, spiritual, technological, personal, it’s a theme that permeates every frame, every story point. What we see, is Kubrick’s unpacking of his own obsessions, his search for perfection, his own humanity and frailty. His entire life was dedicated to collecting, cataloguing and collating, visually and administratively organising reality. What’s so beautiful, is how honest and self reflecting he was as an artist. How vulnerable he was. How open he was to put himself on screen in a way.
Film sets are brutal places at times. For the actors, for the crew. What we see on film is a man exploring himself through his stories. The act of creating itself mirroring the insecurities, the dilemmas, the lack of control, the difficulty each of his characters face on their own journeys, guided by that central theme. The more I found out about the man, the more I began to understand just how brave he was, because I think he found the entire process both compelling from an artistic perspective, but apocryphally, and according to all accounts, incredibly difficult at the same time. Filmmaking is possibly the worst medium to choose to express yourself if you want to control the outcome to be as close to your original idea or vision as possible. But Kubrick forced his will in every instance, through his own obsessive attention to detail, for his movies to get as close as they could.
Does absolutely no one think it’s suspicious as fuck that Stanley Kubrick died the same year this movie came out
Here's something even more fascinating, Balenciaga is linked to the movie.
@@prsimoibn2710 type Balenciaga and Baalenciaga into Google translation to Latin..
Your eyes will be open
@@thirdeyeordie8226 what’s this mean
@thirdeyeordie8226 12:30 Bruh as I was reading your comment this was said at the same exact time...
Kubrick died 666 days before Jan 1st 2001: A Space Odyssey???
When Red Cloak told Dr. Bill to remove his clothes. What were they going to do to him if that woman hadn’t interfered?
My favorite Kubrick film, in my top 5 films of all time. So glad to see you taking it on... I always felt it was, as you said, "Kubrick, through and through" - if not the exact final cut, something very, very close to it.
Explained very thoughtfully, their are many perceptions and thoughts after watching the movie. Many questions comes to mind which story we have to believe with full conscience and morality of life about marriage, sex and honesty, you have to be careful about thought and actions. Kubric had done a great job for questioning the desire with faithfulness.
noticed how initially, the tiger was facing Domino right after the phone call. once he hung up with his wife, the tiger was sitting in the opposite direction. symbolizing him turning his back on having an affair. also, when he returns to Domino's apartment, the christmas tree is disfigured, as if it's symbolic of Domino's HIV status...another thing eye noticed at the end of the film, there's a game called, "The Magic Circle" for sale in the toy store. symbolic of the second party he infiltrated.
It's actually the ONLY party he attends, as the other place is referred to as 'the house'.
"Was she the woman at the party?"
(Bill mixing up the two places, much to karma-slave Ziegler's frustration)
I also noticed the tree, bill even says nice tree the 1st time
Also, when Domino is gone, so is the guardian angel (on a postcard) that was over his shoulder when he talked with Domino in the kitchen.
@@nineteenfortyeight Good EYES! now i must watch it again to peep. Thanks for sharing!
@@seven-11When Bill returns to Domino's, there's a sign outside her door that says "FOR SALE KEITH HARING." This also symbolizes Domino's HIV because Keith Haring is a popular NYC graffiti artist who died of AIDS.
Outstanding breakdown of an artistically beautiful, yet creepy classic!
And of course ..... Guylaine Maxwell court procedures won't be televised...... and happened at a fast incredible pace ..... so we forget about it ASAP.
sick world people will never wake up , at this point they deserve whats coming 🐑💉
@@dionysius1b870 Hard to follow your writing style, just saying. Use of punctuation to separate your sentences is key if you want to further your career.
Santa Claws! He See's you when your sleeping. He knows when your awake. He knows if you've been bad, or good and what you'll lose from your mistakes.
Santa is an anagram of satan. Santa Claus and Satan's claws!!
Most of SK's films deal with pathology. War, mass murder (and even things like MK-Ultra) are the results of psychopathic mindsets. I believe that he was helping us to understand this. The role of psychopaths with power seem to have been examined in most of Kubrick's work. This is most obvious in films like Dr Strangelove (with some characters based on real-life Cold Warriors seeking nuclear war) and The Shining (constant symbolic references to Native genocide, the Holocaust, imperialism, culture which produces psychopaths...). Kubrik meticulously researched everything, INCLUDING political conspiracies (not uncommon among those in the 1950s and 60s who were conscious of the CIA shenanigans, Nazi bankers and scientists, etc). Including the REALITY of secret societies and their depraved social activities in EWS was consistent with all of his other works: Normal people are conflicted, but as John Lennon said: The World is run by PSYCHOPATHS.
Yup. Not forgetting JFK’s assassination either. He was going after these secret society’s.
He was very much part of those circles otherwise a movie like this would have never been greenlit. I hate it when people make him out to be some sort of heroic crusader. He was simply another puppet that got discarded when he started being annoying
@@jihigh482 The movie probably got greenlit because he sold it to them as an erotic thriller, the same way it was marketed to the masses
Nice analysis. Love hearing other people's perspectives on this film. I think in this film as well as Vanilla Sky Tom's performance is top notch.
I was impressed with Nichol Kidman acting skills. She makes the torture of fidelity and marriage real. I am not sure that marriage really works. There is always that struggle that love can last when their is always the element of lust. She is brave enough to tell her partner what she is feeling. Real honesty is hard to have.
The torture of fidelity and marriage? Ahahaha. They both only get tortured looking after they hear the other one is thinking of being unfaithful.
"Brave" lmao yeah she deserves a medal for telling her husband she wants to fuck other men. You m0r0ns are something else
I have watched many "explanation" videos of what is happening in this movie, but I have never heard anyone talk about how sometimes people do just SEE someone and make fools out of themselves because they are so obviously swept away "in love" with this stranger. Gaga. Sometimes they are kind of like a deer in the headlights, they can't process what is happening to them. I doubt a Nicole Kidman type would have this experience, I don't know. And if she did have it, she could probably just throw herself at the guy and he would take her. He probably should have been a rock star and not a naval officer, we could have understood that better.
Alice was a scummy for making dr bill jealous like that. The poor man works his ass off n he has to come home to psychological torture. Hes a good christian!!
@@gomezgomez7759 She never even cooked him some food and put it on the table.
I would pay serious money to see his first cut of this
Morale: Choose your Fidelio, either to temporary pleasures, or to everlasting love.
Good point.
I got the vibe be congruent that's the moral of the movie to me. If you a player be a player if not don't be
@@getsmartquick good point. Be congruent but the good guys always want to taste the bad thing pleasure at times and thats what makes it so mysterious
No such thing as love. Otherwise they wouldn't be thinking of cheating.
@@thelegacyofgaming2928Because they're looking for love elsewhere?
The scene that really made me realize what a nightmare Bill was now in after having his eyes opened to the people he is serving and them knowing that he knows and all that implies, was the scene when he was returning his costume to the proprietor of the costume shop and realizing that now the the owner made an "arrangement" with his daughter and the two perverts, that the same fate would await his wife and perhaps even his daughter.
And don't forget how perfectly placed the music is in your favorite shot in that apartment.
This movie (piece of art) is the literal definition of pulling back the curtain.
The "elite" - whomever that entails - are 100% conducting EWS style gatherings.
I agree that the entire message of the movie is not about that sole scene but to me it's essentially a warning to the audience that this type of stuff is actually occurring.
it is fs happening and has been for decades
Its a high class alternative to a brothel. It looks legit n fun m safe. Every city should have a place like this for the middle classes
@@gomezgomez7759 Except these "high class alternatives" involve pedophilia and human sacrifices. Kubrick could only get away with showing so much of what actually occurs in real life while your eyes are wide shut. - Epstein.
@@gomezgomez7759 Regular rules don't apply at these gatherings. Morals that most of us of follow do not apply at these parties. If you break the rules as a member there will be consequences and no outside force can help you. - Example: Scientology.
@@gomezgomez7759 You dont think this happens in the middle class? This is basically a swinger event for the ultra elite.
This movies a masterpiece
Domino was just sooo beautiful...i would've brought the donuts.
No she wasn't 😂
She is also in a film "Two Lovers" which you can watch on tubi. Ironically her character is...well, I won't divulge anything, so you can watch it yourself.
Fate had death speak to Kubrick and Mozart after they played with elite mind games as each one's final great "Opera" of his day. In Mozart's case it was exposing Masonic symbols in his Magic Flute.
Did they actually die or just extradite through pseudocide
I think this is a realization we all get at one point. That the world is full of evils, that plenty indulge in sin, and you can tirelessly be fighting to live a morally righteous life with as little sin as possible, but the world is still going in a circle around you. You grow tired and at times weak knowing doesn’t matter how much you try to be good, the world is still full of others who don’t have that same desire. Think overall growing up sheltered then having the sheets ripped out beneath you and realizing what Kurbick was trying to show, that is how people really are. You just have to learn to make the most of it.
The colour red shows up constantly. A red pool table, a red chair, a red cloak, a red couch, a red door, a red sweater at the end, red towel.
red and blue, it's a clue
Wow Outstanding analysis, this was very entertaining and well thought out
Thanks for the rational analysis - you see the film at face value without injecting a lot of conspiratorial BS. After 2 or 3 viewings, I came away with the same understanding. It's simple and direct. I have not completely rejected the wilder symbolism and conspiratorial theories, anymore than I am 100% atheist. There are some compelling links between the characters and imagery. The repeated use of rainbows that tie the Ziegler party to the costume shop, the fact that the Rainbow Fashions costume shop owner's (Milich) daughter knew what kind of cloak Dr. Bill should be wearing, and that the door to the room in which Milich finds his daughter with the 2 Japanese men, locks from the outside - meaning it's only purpose is to lock people in, as he did. Fairly compelling evidence that Milich is connected to the wealthy orgy crowd. Or it could be purely incidental to make for a more interesting scene. But the primary theme is about love, lust, trust, jealousy, and fidelity. The hidden secrets of a dark elite underworld are incidental to the plot. It just shows us how far people are willing to go to get their jollies.
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Occult ceremony, trip to the club, occult ceremony, trip to the club? Ehh.. "we're just here for the jollies, fire up the backwards hymns and let's put on our ritual, for jollies!". That's not what's going on here at all.
Mate the so called “Conspiracies” are pretty face value…
No. The dark elite underworld is a lot more than nearly incidental to the plot.
I think an important detail in the movie, is how his wife's dream coincides with Bill's horrific adventure. Almost as if it were telling us the wife knows, and is part of it. For a movie that is all about shut eyes, and opening them, clearly the woman knew and hinted upon it, else she wouldn't have had such miraculous dreams, the theme just wouldn't permit it. Their discussion at the end hints upon an understanding, and that Bill, yet again, as perfect as he is, chose the right path, and whispered forever--whereas the wife, was clear in her reservations.
Also, my first thought was that she did had a nightmare, and it only came out once she saw the mask hidden in her husband's cabinet. As if she were drugged and can only remember vaguely what happened and just thought it were from a dream. Another side of what a would be powerful cult's arsenal of ways to gather pleasure.
Of course, with more thought, I opt to think that she knew all about it, since she's the Eve in this story, and such a dream would be too much of a coincidence, considering what the movie was going for.
In fact, her telling the story of the naval officer was a dead tell of what she has done. I think she was dying to tell him, the password also hints at this. "Faithful".
Thank you for such a thurough rundown
I've watched Eyes Wide Shut at least 10 times, and I still don't have a damn clue what it means. Thanks for messing with my head Stanley.
It's about illumin@ti Satânic Cabal doing satanic rituals and sex orgies from pedophiles and pedovore with legal age or minor sex slaves. Also the mansion they used is A Rotschilds Mansion an Elite Cabal family who also did this kind of party wearing Mask.
Its about fear of your inner desire. The last line in the movie, in the toy store, is when the woman (Alice) looks at her husband (Bill) and say "fuck".
Alice Harford : I do love you and you know there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible.
Dr. Bill Harford : What's that?
Alice Harford : Fuck.
It has two meaning rich people like to fuck to relax from making decisions I think in psychology it's called decision fatigue and secondly it's about awaking to the reality of this. Thirdly my personal meaning is that this movie is a pagan ritual of fertility rites because inanna eg Venus is the god of love lust socialising etc
For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers’ minds [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the Image and Likeness of God.
It means whatever you want it to mean.
EWS is Kubrick's take on Freud, just like The Shining is his take on Jung. EWS, like the novel upon which it is based, is explicitly Freudian.
No it’s Kubrick’s take on a German novella from the 20’s
@@Shindig109 Which is Freudian 😂
The tiger on the bed can also be viewed as a predetor (HIV). Same with the stuffed tigers in Helena's final scene.
I always share your videos. So fantastic!
The pose the masked people are doing is called "child's pose".
And what does child's pose mean and imply
Notices the lighting in Allison’s face is dark with a spot of light at her face when he comes home. It shows the yin and Yang of balance with good and evil
Excellent analysis! You did a great job of explaining something a bit obscured in a short period of time, well done. I agree the sex scene with the elite is about supporting a different premise, the film is not about that scene or built for that scene.
This film is not about sex only there is many scenes without sexual things. This shows what this people do behind the scenes the rituals they do.
They do sex in the rituals
It's very layered. That's what I love about his movies. I think the central themes in EWS are sociology and exploitation. Interesting choices in casting.
Why you say sociology and exploitation can you kindly elaborate on those terms please
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No way man, movie is almost 3 hours and I also had this as my favorite shot, to the point where I wanted to make a poster out of it.
Stanley got hit with that CIA heart attack gun. Dude was telling too much inside baseball.
Here another one, Balenciaga is linked to the castle where the movie has been shot
@@prsimoibn2710 type Balenciaga and Baalanciaga into Google translation to Latin...will open your eyes 👀
Yup n he knew it was coming too because he was chain smoking like mother fkr the 4 days leading up to his death!!
I wish I can rewatch this movie for the first time in the theater
Our human animal nature is housed in the physical body. The soul is challenged with the task of self regulation when it comes to animal body. That is the entire goal of being on this planet.... Can you regulate your human animal body to advance the soul. That is all. Carry on.
Watching this video for the 4th time. It's soooooo good! My favorite movie.
Nicol Kidman's whole look at the party at the start of the film is just perfection. I don't think I have ever seen anyone look that perfect. Her dress seems perfectly tailored to her body. Her face and hair are perfect. The tone of her skin is perfectly framed by the dress. It's amazing. I don't know how much effort they put into her look, or how much of it is just Kidman's natural beauty, but she just perfectly fits in with the theme of the movie: No matter how much you have, the mystery of what you don't have will always be stronger. Bill had the most gorgeous wife possible. No other woman in the movie rivalled Alice in looks, which is why the Hungarian Gentleman was so determined in his advances. And yet Bill was still enjoying and entertaining the attention of other women. In a way, he had his eyes wide shut to what he actually had in life: A beautiful wife, a daughter, a family.
Haha she was also entertaining the Hungarian, wasn't she? It's both parties that were but she at least rejected him, Bill got called for, otherwise, he would have cheated then and there, in my opinion.
She forgot the necklace at home
After I saw this, the next thing that showed up on my recommendations, was a tarot reader. She had that same star of Ishtar behind her.
Bill could have been asked the same question. Why be married. Second. The name Domino is used because I think if he goes there then the domino’s will fall. I his life collapses. Finally in the end when there daughter holds up the Barbie doll my first thought was Jon bennet Ramsey…….
The answer to the question is "Love".
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Christmas is a commercial holiday.
Only since Victorian times. That's why the last scene is in an expensive toy store instead of in a church with every body singing a Christmas carol.
Good analysis, thanks for posting.
"Do you have to go?"
"Do I have to go..."
Much of the movie is Dr Bill parroting others.
Well for many years it was hidden in movies and music videos. Now it's in your face ,eyes wide open. Today's kids holding on to everything they do. Worshiping people like Beyonce. Pulling them into giving up their souls to evil.
I wish he completed the Final Cut! It would not be the same.
Kubrick did Complete the Final cut of his Movie.
After his Death / Murder the Studio hired Spielberg to gut the Movie.
In this video he admits that Kubrick showed the Studio his completed Film. I think you missed this in this video. Watch the video again you will hear him say it.
He finished it, showed everyone the product, then they killed him after they saw it and cut it to pieces.
Glad to see SOMEONE gets it... The cult is basically a high power swinger club, and this is not a movie about exposing rich elites.
This movie is about a spirit that is inhabiting humanity through lust and shows free will and the consequences surrounding choices made with it
excellent breakdown
my favorite movie of all time. excellent video.
Definitely deserve a like for keeping it PG
Maybe desire isn't the source of all suffering?
the movie has beautiful lights and colors
love this movie beautiful music
A clockwork is the rush of blood for violence... with style.
At the zeigler party, Kidman grabs a glass of champagne from a waiter, drinks it, then makes a very strange face, and holds the glass in a very weird way. Does anyone know what's going on with that?
Intoxication lol
Probably adrenochrome.
I think it was spiked with a date rape drug. She acted accordingly knowing to keep her wits about herself…..
She made a mistake drinking that.
@@redline5406 Urgh I wish Hunter S. Thompson never mentioned that andrenochrome thing on Fear and Loathing. I like conspiracies, but that one is kind of cringe and over used. Especially when using
The subject out of context. Andrenochrome seems like an over used topic that it’s thrown around to the point it has no more meaning.
Kind of like calling people racist, or fascist. Lost all its meaning
movies I used to for fun or boredom have deep meanings
You said that there were no symbols of Christmas, except I noticed in this video the "Christmas tree." Bringing a tree into a home and "dressing it up" during Yule is an old Norse/German pagan tradition which was adopted into Christianity, of which some zealous Christians object because "dressing it up" seems to be idol worship. Stanley Kubrick died unexpectedly 666 days after 1-1-2001. '2001: A Space Odyssey' was probably the film he was most known for. Punishment?
The mask on the bed when Bill went into his room wasnt mentioned. It was a potential supernatural element.
How so? It was his wife admitting to being there at the party
It could also be the cult leaving it there as a reminder. If you're part of us then we want something in return...
Christmas is not a Christian holiday, it's a Roman pagan holiday that used to be called Saturnalia. The early church tried to ban it at first but everyone kept celebrating it anyway, so the church just slapped a new name on it, Christmas, and pretended it was a Christian thing all along. A lot of the aspects we regard as being part of Christmas; gift giving, decorating a pine tree, lots of food and drink - that all comes from the Saturnalia tradition.
Very true. Easter is also a Germanic pagan holiday for the goddess Eostre. A *HUGE* amount of what we call Christian rituals and Christian beliefs come from Paganism
They're all pagan holidays.
Wrong, Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ.
Saturnalia doesn't even happen on 25th of December.
@@emZee1994Wrong. Easter is the English name for Paschal season, that's it.
@@kykloskatharevousa7147 from Wikipedia. "The English term is derived from the Saxon spring festival of Ēostre. Ēostre is a West Germanic spring goddess."
Easter is the combination of two holy days, Pagan Ēostre and Christian Pascha
Excellent commentary.
I was wondering why a tamil song was played in the movie. The song kaadhala a tamil song made me cry. My god muruga ❤.
Not only did he die 4 days after showing Warner Brothers HIS Final cut of EYES WIDE SHUT, his death of a heart attack occurred 666 days (to the day) before January 1, 2001 !!! 666 being the number of the devil from the Bible’s Book of Revelations, with the Year 2001 being the opening title of his 1968 masterpiece “2001, A Space Odyssey”.
A coincidence…or planned by someone.
Remember Kubrick had final cut in his contract, and references to child pedophilia are extremely innocuous and for the most part cut from the final edit that WB released. Recall the final scene in the store right before the last spoken word, FUCK, their son is allowed to wander off towards the end of the aisle in the direction of the two men who just went around the aisle to the other side, the same two men from the opening party scene sitting at a table next to the stairway, discussing something.
Oh boy!
Agree about Kubrick's exploration of morality in relationships and life. While monogamous relationships offer challenges of sexual banality they also offer safety from the downward spiral that are portrayed in the film. Sex is important in a marriage and this is one of the challenges of intimate partners to sustain its relevance to the relationship rather than seek gratification elsewhere.
Perhaps if Kubrick didn't die when he did, the film would have had so much editting that there wouldn't be such a balance of positive Christmas anticipation, and fearing dark, satanic, ritualistic horror. And somehow in the middle of everything is sex.
It's a very light idea of the story if you try to understand it from face value. This is one of those films that tries to inform the subconscious part of your mind.
"Christmas is a Christian holiday." Well, there are both Pagan and Abrahamic influences and it's not called Christmas in every language so it's not quite as simple as that.
Great video! Well done.
Is there an uncensored version that shows the 25 minutes WB cut out of the movie?
no
Great stuff, thanks!
I like your analysis. I keep going back and forth between two famous, critics: was this is a masterpiece or a flop? I'm still not sure. I typically like 'half' of his films - to me, the latter half of 'Clock Orange' is amazing, whereas the first half of 'The Shining' and 'Full Metal Jacket' are as well. 'Barry Lyndon' has floating moments and 'Lolita' is just a complete "what?!?" for anyone who ever read the original book. With 'Eyes Wide Shut', I feel it's a chapter of two people's lives, merely that. There is still a moral, though - and it harkens back to possible similar moments in our own lives - moments we look back on and think how stupid our acts were and how lucky we are to still be alive after submitting to them. I think her dream and his actual, awake moments are merely the same things in retrospect. I read once that a memory of what has really happened and a dream we recall are considered pretty close to the same in our minds. In the end, we survived them, whether dream or reality and, hopefully, they may help in the way we live the rest of our lives.