Eyes Wide Shut is a film of repeating motifs: keys, doors, masks, and the color red (the pool of danger, of Christmas, of blood). It moves like a somnambulant waltz, each scene bleeding into the next. Dialogue is often stilted and ritualistic, as if the characters are reciting lines from a script they don’t fully understand.
Adapted loosely from Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick transplants the setting from Freud’s Vienna to modern-day New York City. However, this is not the New York of Spike Lee or Martin Scorsese. Kubrick’s New York is a studio-bound hallucination—a place of harsh streetlights, empty sidewalks, and an unsettling, persistent haze. eyes wide shut -1999-
Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) attend a lavish Christmas party hosted by the wealthy Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack). Both are subjected to heavy flirtation by others. The Confession: Eyes Wide Shut is a film of repeating