Illuminati symbolism and analysis of 'Eyes Wide Shut.
In Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick explores a world of emptiness. He reveals a society of masks with open eyes that never actually see anything. He uses the relationship between Bill and Alice Harford, an ordinary, although wealthy, couple to show the difference between reality and fantasy. Red is.Eyes Wide Shut is a psychological exploratory film that attempts to look beyond appearances and examine the interiors of motivation of human behavior, which in its evasiveness cannot clearly and precisely be pinned down. Thus there is a certain element of unreality in the movie, adequately expressed through the dream-motif, symbols, and paradox.I wrote this essay in 1999. In retrospect, I think Eyes Wide Shut initially puzzled me, as it did so many viewers, and in my puzzlement I sought through it looking for the sort of Stanley Kubrick film I knew and expected, a film about the brutality of man, the callousness and depravity of elites, the cyclical self-destruction of human history.
Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), the story is transferred from early 20th century Vienna to 1990s New York City.It has been suggested that Eyes Wide Shut was merely an elaborate expensive way for Kubrick to toy with Tom Cruise. Some very far out questers have suggested that Kubrick's entire body of work can be read as a coded expose of the illuminati conspiracy and that the director was assassinated for going to far on this, his final film (666 days.
I’ve posted an updated version of my first-ever nationally published piece of writing, a critical essay on Stanley Kubrick’s last film, the much misunderstood and underappreciated Eyes Wide Shut, fully illustrated and with a new afterword.
