The Depths of EYES WIDE SHUT | The Mysterious Film Where Fantasies Are As Real As Reality
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:00 A Mysterious Film About...
01:41 The Small Infinity of Marriage
05:42 How a Man Shows His Face
12:16 A Journey of Revenge and Curiosity
20:15 A Dream Story
28:13 The Meaning of the Dreams
45:28 Reality as Dream
47:46 To Forgive is to See
53:52 What It Means to be Awake
MUSIC
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY #7, Allegretto
JOHN MICHEL, CELLO
Happy New Year everyone.
Perfect timing! Thank you!
Happy new year, bro! Been hoping for another masterpiece from you. But I haven't watched this film yet, so I'm coming back later 😅
Epstein party
@Dantes230 The Curse of the Native Americans
A Happy 50 more weeks to you too. 😊
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." ― Oscar Wilde
sometimes a persons whole character and persona is their mask...
yeah, and i'm sure he attended lots of mansion parties "talking" to men with masks on!!
@@secondmouse2650 Brilliant comment and o very true.
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@@h-dawg6462😂😂😂 u know he did
Funny how tom cruise is actually in a cult lol 😂
I think Kubrick did that on purpose
@@lisaliza7009 definatly, apparantly there was 24 minutes deleted before the film got published aswell and he died a week after
I mean , I read somewhere Nicole Kidman herself due to her family lineage has participated in in elite groupings as well and was present to something similar.
@@shadowalnut572 yeah she has, hes in deep with that scientology religion cult bullsh!t thats some dark sh!t hes a wierd man when you look into it all, the man who owns the whole thing made his own wife disappear 15ish years ago cos she was gonna open her mouth apparantly and no one knows if shes alive or imprisoned by him and now hes gone underground hes called david miscavige
@@shadowalnut572 yes her dad was being brought up on pedo charges right before he passed
Kubrick was trying to tell us what's going on in Holywood and beyond.
WOAOAOOOOOOOHH nuuuu uhhh really?!?!
Editing to laugh at the fact you had to edit your comment. Good job champ.
@@TB-eb3vmyour comment is so lame and pathetic, I genuinely feel for your existence
@@Sizzle-zv3cp quit projecting
@@TB-eb3vmYou are, of course, correct. The naysayers were proably double masked and got all their jabs and boosters
Bullcrap.
Kubrick died less then a week after showing his rough cut of the film to the studio producing it. After his death 22 minutes of the movie were cut before being put in theaters
There is an uncensored version floating around in Latin America...with uncut unabridged film. Plus extra.
Yep. The Rothschilds allowed him to film their French castle? You can hear Angelina Jolie describe her initiation "To the Club" which one of her friends filmed secretly and she describes sexual rituals and the sacrificing of animals RUclips-Bitchute-Rumble). They start soft and before you know it, its like in the "Confession of a Dutch Banker" and the human sacrifice of a kid. The Dutch banker interview went viral and he was a banker almost at the absolute top. But before he could "join the club" they needed to have him kill a child. They need this not only for the Satanic Ritual but he can never go to the authorities when he is filmed stabbing a child to death?
@@dannylo5875 any links or info where I can find a copy?
@@dannylo5875 Are we talking about actual additional scenes (after the adult party)? Or are we just talking about the removal of the CGI implanted figures blocking the activities?
@@EyeInSky2000 actual scenes that were cut from the film. That was 22 to 35 minutes long.
That mansion they filmed at I owned by the Rothchild's, lol.
Yes, and i wonder why they alowed this..????
@@sonjavaller-field8651bc it’s no more owned by Rothschilds
You own a Rothchild building? 😂 Lucky you. The Rothchild Symbol is the same as 🇮🇱. See how that works.
@@unbroken1010please take your anti Semitism elsewhere. Like a Klan meeting.
ah the old red shields hides
only rotten children and
children of Roth.
_Eyes Wide Shut_ is the first movie that I remember
containing the orange/blue, amber/teal color aesthetic that is now pervasive.
It is used to convey warmth/coolness, interior/exterior(windows), action/inaction and dreams/life.
The use changes subtly during the film, as fact and fiction become blurred.
Until you read about the house of orange or Nassau and the occult meaning of the blue/red and combination = purple. You're looking at things from a shallow perspective. What is presented to you in eyes wide shut is reality packed with occult symbolism. Kubrick was exposing the truth and it cost him his life. 25 mins I belief, erased from the movie. Learn to read symbolism and you will see a hidden world inside ours. Oh yeah about the orange - a clockwork 'orange' and all its occult and MK Ultra symbolism as well.
If you are controlled by your Urges to F...
Make sure that your LIFE is not a LIE with that F added, for the Soul Purpose of teaching your Self, how to behave yourself.
Blue conveys the dream state.
Magenta &Emerald Green ...is ..everywhere now ...
@@Silverone41790 Exotica does NOT get enough appreciation! Plays with audience assumptions, especially as certain conversations colored (and color) how we see sex and other people.
The people asking “Why should I care about this, if none if it is real?” dont realize that the movie Eyes Wide Shut is trying to ask the viewer the exact same question.
flip that around. it is real and no one cares.
many turn a blind eye, sleepwalking through life. ignorance is bliss!
@@h-dawg6462 Ignorance is only bliss if you find bliss in ignorance.
Many people genuinely revel in not knowing.
@@denofpigs2575 like potheads, games and hip hop artist. All useless eaters
@@denofpigs2575😂😂😂😂psychology has its downfalls
I think viewers well awared of
and the director died after exposing that dark se x monster life , like pizza gate ,
i think we all well know about this.
now THIS is a Christmas Movie.
🤣😂🤣
because the events are taking place at😉 christmas time
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“Eyes Wide Shut” only on the Hallmark Channel!
Xmas is just Saturnela worship. Big coke can
The scene that haunts me every time I think about this movie is when they take their child back to the toy store and LEAVE HER BEHIND... that one is tough to ponder - was the daughter the price they paid?
I don't think they are actually meant to have left her behind, but she runs around out of sight while they have their talk. The old man at the gate of the mansion is seen walking around in the background, so there is menace to their daughter there. The daughter plays an important role in the film, as she is a girl who will have to wrestle with the facts of life and the dangers of the adult world. She is seen learning how to tell which men have money while with Alice, for example, and the potential dangers she will face is spelled out quietly in the final scene.
What movie did you watch? They don't leave her behind there.
Epstein's party
@@spinlok3943 Precisely. I don't get people who completely imagine a sequence and then swear blind it actually happened. The last word of the movie is when they are still in the toyshop, so they haven't even left the place.
For those who don’t remember, there are two men in the aisle with the child and the striped toy tigers. Those same two men are both shown sitting at the table at the foot of the stairs in Ziegler’s home at the beginning of the film. If you watch the final scene, as Cruise and Kidman are talking, they look at their daughter as she looks back at them and heads around the corner following those two men as if she were leaving with them, although this is not explicitly shown.
Excellent breakdown! I am a Kubrick fan and always find his works so thought provoking. I remember first seeing Eyes Wide Shut and thinking this is such a enthralling last work, a masterpiece! It's a deep film where you really have to open yourself up to. You can never forget a Kubrick film. Whether you love it or hate it. It stays with you.
You might find the ongoing deep dive into The Shining by Truthstream Media channel, interesting.
Yeah beyond a masterpiece although I think they did modify the movie after Stanley's death during the post production. So it's always a wonder what he'd think about the final edit.
That is true. There have been so many great directors that got recut later. They even did it to the Orson Welles.@@Invertedworldx
Then you know he was murdered shortly after publishing the film. After he was strongly suggested by the elites to not do it. Also removed a 20 minutes scene
@@keylanoslokj1806 exactly
Basically exploring Christ's words 'he who looks at another woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart'
Exactly this… never saw the atonement element either - very interesting perspective also the concept of worshiping through acts of sin
@@feraiivie I think that's why marriage is put in terms of husbands love your wives like Christ loved His Church, giving Himself up for it and dying
I was thinking of that very important Bible verse myself upon discovering this video.
@richdelaney9500 you are what you think about!
I believe that Kubrick's death right before the editing was finished without him is not a coincidence. I believe that he revealed too much for his safety.
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They cut over 20 scenes out of it after he died then released it so possibly too much info on this one who knows
A 70 year old man having a heart attack, isn't unusual. The film was based on an old book, so I'm not sure what it would reveal? I do know that there has to be a conspiracy for everything now.
I think he was old and the earth is not flat
@@georginafindlay8604they could have not released it all.
My favorite thing about this movie is trying to pin point the scenes were Nicole and Tom were in the middle of divorce proceedings. :)
😮 what timing......
......I remember them being marrried for a bit- I wonder if this movie just tipped them over the edge - cracking the marriage for good
lol
I think there are a couple of scenes that got cut out at some point. There was a mention in this video of a scene I never saw.
It was filmed over 3 years so def some shit went down
I dont necessarily dislike this film, but i prefer watching video essays and analyses about it rather than watching the film itself.
Same.
That’s me with a lot of movies honestly
analyses make me feel dumb, like why haven't i knew about it?
watching a youtube analysis >> watching most movies and tv shows/series tbh
Video essays n analyses r great if they're done well, n that means including audio from the film. Too many exclude the audio like this 1 does. That makes it really boring. I stopped watching after about 3 mins.
Well, this is only one layer of depth. First, we know that the studio edited Kubrick's film, perhaps with 22-24 minutes excised. Second, we also know that Kubrick usually used his source material to tell a "different" story while still telling the original story. We see that in "Lolita," "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining" and "Barry Lyndon," for example. On the surface, it appears he's re-telling the source material story, but, in actuality, he is telling a different story, HIS story. The source material is merely the vehicle. Same with this film.
On the surface, the story is as you tell it here, Schnitzler's dream story. But, deeper, we have a story about a secret society of elites who engage in debauchery, black magic, and even ritualized murder. We have references to going "over the rainbow" which is an infamous mind-control meme, and, of course, in the very final scene, we see the Harfords allowing their daughter to be taken away by two elderly men who we first saw at the Christmas Party amid a store full of teddy bears, another infamous meme for child sexualization and abuse. They do this as if it's a regular thing and the daughter goes with the men as if she's done this before. We know that Victor Ziegler is a stand-in for Nelson Rockefeller, who died while engaging in sex with his mistress. We have the Rockefeller Christmas party and we see Christmas trees all over the place. The Rockefellers were big on Christmas trees, including the massive tree annually placed at Rockefeller Plaza each Christmas season. The "Hungarian" seems to be a clear representation of George Soros, who often compulsively reminds people that he's Hungarian. On top of that, the ritual masked ball was shot at the Rothschild mansion where masked balls have been held. We have the photographs of those. And the weird music at the masked ball (as another commenter has observed below) is that of a Romanian priest chanting “A new command I [Christ] give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another" BACKWARDS. And we know that chanting the liturgy backwards is a staple of Satanic masses. And that's only a few of the correspondences with this underlying story. You simply can't ignore all this and pretend it's not there. It's very much THERE. You're being disingenuous. And we can see what you're doing. A bit of sleight of hand.
"Not everything is as it seems" is right, though.
Yeppers! Nailed it
Yes, absolutely spot on.
That’s the best analysis. Please explain, when he comes home and the mask is on the bed, does that mean they’ve visited and talked to Alice to give their daughter?
Agree. The analysis promised to show how these two stories are connected but it doesn't really do so, at least not clearly and explicitly. I'd say this needs a re-write.
@@Nozarks1 Could be. We don't really know. Maybe the truth lies in what was edited out of the movie. It DOES freak out Bill, though.
I've long suspected this film is about something really going on but which Kubrick couldn't say out loud. 🤔( Green Fire, UK ) 🌈🦉
No one wants your 🌈 buddy
Excellent! I was hoping you'd tag this one too.
I always felt Eyes Wide Shut was criminally underrated. There's so much going on, though. Stanley the master.
Absolutely.
There truly will NEVER be another
I haven’t seen a more in-depth, better pronounced, and better structured video on this topic on the entire RUclips!🤞🏻
Look up Collative Learning
I've seen another very good one on RUclips a few years ago. Equal to this, but more focused on Kubrick's many hidden Easter Eggs in the film. They even talked about the psychology he employed in using the Christmas lights. Wish I could refer you to that one.
I commented earlier before being halfway through this video. I stand corrected. You're right, this one's the best ever.
@@cordellsenior9935If you come across it, don't hesitate to share the link in the comments below. I would love to see it!🍸
Recently rewatched this with two friends. Like many, I was a bit confused/disappointed when it first was released, but every time I watch it I discover/notice new details and appreciate it more.
Seems to boil down to sin, lust, desire. These things are the weapons of the evil one. It all leads to the same place. I’m sure Kubrick was trying to tell us something more as he always was. Being his last film he swung for the fences and went out with a bang.
Also, Christ said if you look at a woman with lust you have already committed adultery in your heart, and this book/movie is illustrating that.
Thought crimes. Good stuff.
imagine believing in magic demons and magic jewish wizards in 2024. rabbis said that before christ ever supposedly existed lol
I read somewhere that there's another 3rd of the film that got cut that explains a lot re secret societies...and that kubrick was murdered because of this film...but not sure if that's true.
@@cookie5535Imagine 85% of the world's population believing in some kind of GOD. I guess they are all just crazy lol
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@@cookie5535 I wonder why they said that but were and are still called Rabbis? I mean, why say that and be a Rabbi? What's the point of being a Rabbi? Seriously, I'm curious. Enlighten us, sunshine. I'm waiting.
I liked how Ziegler's billiard room was somehow a reflection of the hall of the Somerton ansion. The red billiard table in the middle of the room echoed the red carpeting in the middle of the big hall. The painted portraits hanging around the billiard room mirrored the people surrounding Bill in the party. There was this shot where a portrait of a woman hung behind Ziegler. It was almost like a parallel of the scene in the mansion where the masked woman saved him.
Like in the Shining, how there was a model inside of the maze outside
Rob Ager drew a parallel between the staff taps and the tapping of the qball.
Very well done, sir. It is true that one's dreams draw them into a reality that can be sensed by an alert spouse, while also dragging them into situations that compromise them. Discipline in one's thought, aspirations, and fantasies make a man free. This is not talked about nearly enough in the current world and I thank the gentleman.
Thank you, my friend.
Well said & a very important sentiment as you said in this current time
So women, enjoy the fantasies!
@@binkinbelle would u say fantasies such as CNC is wrong because of the inherent concept of it.
The occult party has a very venitian vibe. Was kubrick too accurate with the portrayal of some elite, and the most sinister aspects were cut?
Then he was killed for showing too much of the truth?
What makes it sinister? Stop being soft
Very much so
@@unbroken1010what do you think goes inside these elite rituals and parties?
An amazing analysis. This is Kubrick’s most difficult film and you’ve really nailed it for me
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny. Maybe the same could be said for dreams and fantasies.
Really appreciate the time, energy, and effort that you put into the commentary of the film and novel. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting that I subscribed to your channel yesterday without watching any of your videos. Then today you post for the first time in 8 months about a film I keep meaning to rewatch.
The basic theme of EWS can be expressed by the equation: Sex - Love = Death.
That is an oversimplification.
the movie is about you.....sleepwalking through life!!! 🥱😴🛌
Finally!!!! Someone is giving attention to the broader discussion on human nature, that the film is about. And not just the conspiratorial aspect, which is appreciated. But people tend to completely overlook the deeper meaning of this film... I thorough enjoyed this essay. Thank you
The point is that they are very much connected. The nature of that connection is what the film is about, this analysis falls short of revealing that, although that's the promise made at the beginning of this video.
Stanley Kubrick was a genius. His films still disturb people and they always will.
I mean, the final exchange in the film really sums up everything for me; especially that final word, I feel that's the thing that was missing in their relationship
This is an excellent overvview of EWS, a film that is very hard for people to get a read on because it operates at many different levels. Of course there are questions and themes that the movie presents that were not covered in detail here, but that is to be expected if one is to present an overview that is concise and to the point. This analysis does a great job of laying out the main themes regarding fidelity in marriage, the role of sex and fantasy how they abut with reality in relationships.
EWS is Kubrick's magnum opus and is still highly underrated. I would put it up with his best work.
Thanks! Almost impossible to cover everything, even in an hour. So much going on.
2001 is way deeper and more interesting, imho his magnum opus, if you're deep in the occult, eyes wide shut is more obvious, but most people still cannot see and what it costed him, truly eyes wide shut
The man loved epstein Island no doubt 😂
@@TheCoolLamathe earth is not flat Q Tard.
A must view for anyone preparing for marriage, not the movie so much as this analysis of the Kubrick and Schnitzler works. Bravo
Marriage is a social contact. Don't whine when it's not perfect.
@@unbroken1010 true. So hypergammy we should do?
This movie is the definition of advanced genuis theory... it's literally in a genre unto itself and it definitely has hidden meaning about CIA techniques and how the rich and powerful use power
This video is brilliant on many levels and I love the thoughtfulness taken in the video, the editing, the script, and vocal delivery, and the marriage 😅 between the essay and the visuals. This is a wonderful piece of art. Bravo! 👏🏽👏🏻👏👏🏻👏🏿👏🏾
Glad to see you’re back at it
Excellent dissection. Kubrick gave his life to help us understand the danger of secret-societal powers.
Been waiting for this. Thank you!👏
Just checked yesterday to see if I'd missed anything - glad to see new work
So an interesting detail during the Liturgy of Lust (if you like) …
The piece that plays was Jocelyn Pook’s “Backward Priests” (retitled in the soundtrack as “Masked Ball”). It is a recording played backward - or backmasked - of a Romanian priest chanting. What is being said draws on John 13:34:
“A new command I [Christ] give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
Powerful piece of music. i hate it, it makes me feel nauseous... now i know why, thank you
Aleister Crowley, “the beast,” would channel spirits that happened to look exactly like the alien gray. Along with human sacrifice, they taught to do everything backwards … to walk backwards, talk backwards, etc. Like the inverted cross. It’s to flip everything God created. It’s why the push for transgenderism too. Baphomet their androgyne god.
That's a pretty clever analogy then on Kubrick's part to demonstrate how materialist the party is.
In Satanism, everything is a reverse of the Catholic Mass. The dancers in Sommerton dance around the High Priest in an anti-clockwise circle, while the Priest sways the incense with his left hand.
"Love" has been made only physical in this whirled we walking thru, using only productive organs ..NOT eternal LOVE JESUS GIVES
after seeing this movie and understanding the world that we live in, I could see every politician that’s in that country in every character in this movie with the scandals that came out before JFK until this day..
is this what this country stands for?
Kubrick wanted to show the people, but nobody still understands.
I do and many more
You know, there actually is a world outside the United States.
Politics money looks 🎉 cost you
Having been in many an anonymous thread debating this movie. It's always been more skewed towards the elite and their sex parties than what I always suggested. I used to say the movie is not about infidelity, but fidelity. I see now it's about both and much, much more. Thank you.
it's about satanists.
This was the best breakdown of this film I have ever seen/listened to. Brilliant work.
Excellently put ! The closing statement. " Becaues they are good people " 😊 A brilliant analysis of Kubrick's movie.
As Lewis also opined, loving someone is necessarily entwined with being vulnerable. Loving another must be accompanied by the willingness to accept pain - vis-à-vis, the greatest love was inflicted intractable pain, propitiated by the greatest sacrifice for the penitent.
Or you can not whine about a simple social contract for taxes
This is a brilliant analysis. The best so far I've heard
Worth the wait Emperor! Great review.
I am glad to see your videos continue into the new year, thank you!
Thank you for being here my friend!
Thank you, Empire of the Mind.
Maybe this is why Jesus said “But I tell you that any man who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in bis heart” in Matthew 5:28. It was a “warning” that our imagined sexual fantasies do not have such an “imaginary” effect on us.
It allows us to be afflicted by demons 🙏
jesus does not know humanity. There are things that is biological and we cannot control
“All women are naturally faithful.” 😂😂😂
it should be there are alot of people in general naturally faithful
I still think the true edit of Eyes wide shut was edited by the studio after Kubrick died.
agreed
Apparently the end was cut. The 2 men take the daughter to the mansion and do rituals etc on her.
@@Nozarks1 I don't think the ending was cut. I think the missing scenes are from the party/orgy. Bill saw way more than what we're shown in the edited version.
@@brundlefly262 I think so too. It makes more for scenes from the orgy to be cut.
So if one were to get an original DVD off eBay, we might see more footage?
Love your deep dives into Kubrick. Please do one on The Shining.
It's on the way
The Shining is his best.
Fakemoonlanding
Thank you Empire of the mind. That was an outstanding presentation! Makes me think, what if we were to take the ordinary events of our lives, who we bump into, what another says... And to treat these instances with the same keenness of mind of a dream analysis by a psychotherapist... What meaning would we reveal???
Great work my friend! Very insightful and concise observations. Your content is truly enjoyable
And he's back! A nice way to start the new year.
Nicole Kidman's father, who is from a very wealthy Australian family, living as a 'teaching psychologist' was accused of being a pedophilic member and trainer of mind control of children in Sydney. His accuser, went public about this in 2015, recalling Nicole's presence and many other high profile Australians (Nicole about age 12) at a ritual where children were systematically drugged, raped and worse.
Within days, Nicole's father left his apparently successful life, dedicated to his 'psycholgy' status, settled in Sydney
and 'fell out of a window' in Singapore.
Nicole's wooden acting, her being in films like this, appear connected with this.
Status and games, power and horrible associations are very important to people 'moving up' in the world to elevate themselves in relation to others.
The emotional suffering is then fodder for the fictionalisation, rather that truth-telling of what is at the roots of so much inexplicable 'bizarreness', and suffering.
Exactly. This is about MKULTRA monarch sex kittens and tunnel digger blackmail parties for the elites of society. The relationship dynamics are only secondary to the importance of the plot. Have you seen Jay Dyer's review of this movie?
mkultra, monarch😂cruise is a high level draco reptilian scammer, the star of isthar doesn't get noticed... people are dumb
cruise is a draco, star of isthar...this is about mind control😁
I wonder if Tom Cruise 'discovered' her through her thus connections
Her sister is a bit weird too.
Excellent. But what about Stanley Kubrick's untimely death, the missing minutes and the last scene, when their daughter disappears around the corner behind two shady old men?
There are no missing minutes and Kubrick was very ill.
Great analysis. I have always loved the movie. You pointed out a lot of parallels that I hadn't been consciously aware of until now.
What I found fascinating about Schnitzler's book is that it is pointing to a strange mood that appeared in Europe as a result of the Great War. His book is often associated by critics with the Decadent Movement that overemphasized hedonism and excesses as recurrent themes, but those things are superficial in his story. What is indeed horrifying is that underlying those decadent tropes the author depicts a world in which all morals and institutions are spiritually dead. Not in any religious manner, but simply all things and concepts such as Family, Chastity and Marriage appeared to turned hollow. Fridolin's Vienna is essentially one in which nothing seems fixed and 'Truth' is just a word built upon other words equally shallow. And I wonder if Kubrick tried to point with this particular film something he found similar about Schnitzler's Austria and his own contemporary America.
After all, "Eyes Wide Shut" cynicism was quite different from the overall optimism that overflow the West and the United States after the end of the Cold War. The film came out just one year after the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It is even curious to think if the manner in which Monica Lewinsky was "vilified" by the masses and the media at the time is comparable to the treatment the woman who rescues Bill in the ball received by the masked ones. Of course Lewinsky is still alive, but her public life was practically dead until not so long ago. I particularly see is a direct connection between this film and "Barry Lyndon". Some of those people on the paintings in display in the mansion where the Ball takes places are the ones which Kubrick dramatizes in Barry Lyndon, which suggests that the people in the ball could as well be some of their descendants, even more curious is that both films also deal with middle-class characters crossing an "invisible line" into a world of higher class and higher power only to be expelled from there.
I also think Bill is only superficially offended by the thoughts of his wife cheating him with another man. The vivid and detail ways in which he imagines these scenes in the Taxi always made me wonder if deep down he is not actually aroused by this idea. He desires that, and he is haunted by the guilt. Frankly, I don't think Kubrick was denouncing secret elites and their debaucheries with this film. His criticism is more subtle than that. The way I understand "Eyes Wide Shut" is ultimately the depiction of the Death of Truth that fallowed the "End of History" and "The death of ideology" narratives in the late 20th century social mood. I really enjoy your video, I think you provided the most thorough analysis of this film I've seen so far. You gained a new subscriber!!
Oh, I just figured it out. You see Alice sitting by the window, the window sill looks like a white face mask such as Bill and "Mandy" wore at the ritual party. Then "Mandy" recognizes Bill at the ritual party and sacrifices herself for Bill. (How could she recognize him?) Then Alice tells Bill she felt wonderful after he left her dream scene and she had sex with hundreds of men. It's like she's "Mandy" or somehow she did a mind meld with "Mandy". Took over Mandy's body. Even though Bill was betraying her, she saved him through her mind.
Nice. Finishing your essay with the reworded last line of Eyes Wide Shut, I see what you did there. Thank you for your most perceptive and enlightening analysis. It reminds me of a great song sung through the ages by all ages, which reveals the great paradox of life and how we can resolve it somewhat, "Row row row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream."
I haven't heard that song in a long time. Used to be common on children's records.
It's not a dream. Your here
@@unbroken1010 eThat's what I thought as a kid. How can life be a dream if you ARE rowing a boat?
Eyes Wide Shut is such an intriguing movie... they don't do movies like this one anymore... a masterpiece of the GOAT Stanley Kubrick that left us too soon.
Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that we'll see movies like this anymore period. Studios aren't willing to back anything but established, washed up IPs, which is ironic considering they lose massive amounts of money. But I guess we can look forward to Marvel movie #798 and Ridley Scott's Titanic 6: Voyage of The Nostromo lmao
Nope they just push the woke shit
He was 70
I think this was the best analysis (or discussion) of this film that I’ve seen. This is largely due to the source novel material to which the film closely followed. I think you’re right that the main theme or takeaway has to be the heart and the affections. Perhaps it can be summed up as “where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.
Absolutely brilliant theory of Marion and Carl being doppelgängers. Holy moly. I found myself thinking on a similar vein when watching!
Thank you for your thought provoking perspective . Happy new year
You're welcome!
You mention how the wife in both the book and movie saves the husband and in Beethoven’s only opera “Fidelio” is about how a wife saves a husband:
“The libretto tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison. Bouilly's scenario fits Beethoven's aesthetic and political outlook: a story of personal sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph.”
A woman dressed as a man not fooling anyone.
I was surprised to hear about the old "movie star" Bob Hope was a Handler. When I was a child for some reason I thought Bob Hope was my true Father. Weird huh?
Truly an "eye-opening" analysis. Thank you very much. Now I'm off to read the "Traumnovelle".
amazing essay and instantly one of your best - bringing new insights to a movie i've growingly appreciated but knew not why. the relationships between the two xmas parties, as mirror sides of realities, as one almost the photo negative of the other, or the reveal/unmasking, is excellent. i think that yes, it is a reality and a dream, in that a lot of what happens in life is related to our dreams, in that we live them out, or that our dark impulses reveal shadow selves and deep psychological layers. the strongest point for me is your emphasis on forgiveness, and that it has its own emotional calculus which is unavoidable. one of the biggest lies we have as a superficial, western commercialized society is the 'get over it' myth, that we can recover 100% nearly instantly and move on. hurtful events leave scars, and trauma doesn't disappear magically, it has to go somewhere ... the mind and body keep score, not in a petulant way nor vengeful grudge, but in real, emotional-physiological-psychological sense, and the hurt gets recycled unless there is real contrition by a party involved and efforts are made to heal, providing for a rebirth of empathy and care. ... this is the awakening, this is the opening of the heart, and of the eyes, to the soul.
Bravo! Great analysis, thanks for making. 👍
Happy New Year And Thank You For Sharing This Detailed Exposé
What timing! Just watched this the other day and have been binging your videos
Interesting video. I don't know if I fully subscribe to the dream theory, though. I will say this, if you have ever been in a committed relationship and been blindsided by your partner's infidelity, you will know Bill's reaction to everything is very raw, real, and accurate, more so if you are a man. Being cheated on casts this film in a completely different light. The pain of that kind of severe emasculation is incredibly difficult to describe to a man who hasn't been through it. The frat bros on the street insinuating Bill is a homosexual was salt in the masculine wound. I think that was very much on purpose. The occult stuff seems like window dressing to what is simply a story of the complete and utter destruction of one man's ego and self-worth. I find Alice to be very manipulative and cold, almost ruthless. Definitely an intriguing and powerful film.
To me the way the occult themes fit into the story was so spot on simply because a change in perception can change your entire reality. Many occult symbolism in mainstream society goes by unnoticed just like how many red flags in relationships go by unnoticed or get dismissed. But once you're faced with the ugly truth it's like the mind spirals and suddenly you see the signs everywhere. The only reasonable thing to do from that point forward is to come to a place of acceptance that this is your new reality. I think many people feel like Tom Cruise's character initially where we feel like the world SHOULD be one way and relationships SHOULD be one way, but human nature and reality is much more ugly.
Ahhh! New year new video. Very excited to watch.
Great analysis, music & art!👌🏼
Happy New Year! Glad to ring it in with another Kubrik deep dive, thanks!
Thanks for being here!
Okay, wow. Genuinely not trying to just heap praise on you or anything, but I needed this message right now. We're of the same faith, as discussed in previous comments, but I have been bending the knee to lust and fantasy lately. I've allowed the internal secrecy of fantasy to run wild while adorning the mask of composure and faithfulness to my significant other. Thank you for this. I know it's someone else's film, but I needed this breakdown and interpretation right now. Thank you and God bless.
@@mainelymaintaining You’re welcome my friend. Glad it came along at the right time. God does that kind of stuff! Wishing all the best for you.
I love this movie and this is an extremely interesting video essay. Thank you and Happy New Year 🖖🏽🎉
Very good, never heard anybody analyze it psychologically about dreams and reality it's always the emphasis on the occult and symbolism.
Congratulations, good work.
Great essay, love hearing the background of this film
I always wondered why this film which takes place during the Christmas Holiday was released right in the middle of the summer of 1999.
He couldn’t finish it on time.
Men and women show love differently, however there are boundaries which should not be transgressed
Confronting issues that is part of humanity yet scared to be confronted and talked about in an honest way !
Happy New Year and welcome back friend! As you can probably tell by the comments you've definitely been missed. Great video as always
Thank you for being here, my friend! It's good to be back.
Quietly one of the greatest movies ever made. Generations to come will understand this. This isn’t easily digested. Kubrick was forever suprising and challenging. I just can’t say enough about movies like this.
It’s a movie about the perverted underbelly of the elites…who control us. But people seem to enjoy the perversions more than realize the depth of evil we’re all dealing with.
I trusted you with my time as soon as I heard Akira Yamaoka, and was not disappointed. Thank you for your insights here.
Your breakdown and analysis is better to me than the film itself. I was critical of the film, i needed the book reference to appreciate what was being said. I'll try watching again! Well done
The best commentary on this movie I’ve ever seen! Also the biblically poetic connections 😮💨 chef’s kiss 10/10
Eyes Wide Shut opens with a Shostakovich piece which we assume is part of the movie music, but then we see Dr. Bill walk over to the stereo and turn it off. I have never seen Kubrick do anything like this before. For me, it's the first clue that what we are going to see isn't necessarily what it seems. Does anyone else have an opinion what it could mean?
They ran out of money for the sound mixing and had to use on set radios for the soundtrack.
The music sets a mood and puts us in a dream-state; having the music stop mid-scene feels sobering like waking up from a dream.
I don't know, but it was brilliant regardless
That was the music to a French commercial for insurance. It was all I could think of whenever it played
just noticed something interesting. In the Newspaper article 48:58 of the Ex-beauty queen overdose, in the second to last paragraph there is a typo, the line "She has many important friends in the fashion and entertainment world" was printed twice by mistake.
I wonder that there aren't over two dozen comments telling you how Mr Kubrick would never make such a mistake and that it means this or that.
Since you deem it "interesting", what do you think it means?
@@lowandodor1150 i'm guessing it's not an unintentional mistake. It was aimed at the the Doctor that they know would be reading it. To reinforce how powerful these elites really are, and to intimidate him into keeping his mouth shut. Much like the front page headline "you're lucky to be alive".
But that's just my guess, what's yours?
@@lowandodor1150 Sorry i think my reply got delete for some reason, i was going to edit it and it's not there, apologies if it is there.
I think it was a intentional mistake, it looks like an innocent mistake to nobody involved reading it, but to the doctor it's an intimidating display of power and a reminder of who he is dealing with. Almost as if they could make anything look like a mistake/accident if they wanted to. Much like the front page headline "lucky to be alive"
@@alistairmurray626 Hmmmm, okay....but is he intimidating, to them? And i doubt people were even able to read it in the theatre, no?
@@lowandodor1150 Well they did threaten to kill him if he told anyone, i guess they saw him as a problem, maybe wanted to scare him. Maybe it was a genuine mistake though, and i'm reading too much into it. What do you think?
That piano song narrated this movie in such an incredible way.
Thank you for this new year's gift.
You're welcome!
Wow I have seen countless analysis of this movie and this is by far the best. Well done
Finally a video which actually analyses the film seriously and not with ridiculous or mumbo jumbo theories.
Ok normie
@@ElonMuskrat-my8jy Aw, you'll never know the touch of a woman without paying first. Are you putting your paychecks from Burger King in your piggie bank like a good incel, honey? Poor little baby...
Leave that for the comment section.
Superb work ...shared ❤
Very entertaining vid and a great job as usual 👏
And what about the child at the end, their daughter being pawned off to those two older men she left with at the teddy bear store? They control the world.
Apparently in the end the daughter is taken to the mansion and sacrificed. That part was edited out after Kubrick passed away
It's an insight into what they do to kids in hollyweird
I haven’t watched this movie in years. However, did see it recommended for me on Prime. Did anyone notice when Alice was dancing with the tall and handsome, Hungarian gentleman. As they are dancing at Ziegler’s party, as the camera pans around them. I noticed that the Christmas decor with the colorful lights, are not all the same.
A few of them are in the shape of the “All seeing eye”. I had to rewatch that scene many times. Making sure that what I was noticing was actually props and not just in my brain. Just wanted to know if anyone else was aware of this message again from the late Kubrick. 🤔
It was in ur brain only
This is brilliant,loved how you broke it down,the light and darkness( good against evil),definitely a good way to look in oneself!!🙏