tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821631260908917155.post5271088267113991668..comments2023-12-29T04:07:47.178+08:00Comments on Somewhere in the Depths of Cinema: The Final Work of a MasterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821631260908917155.post-49578720016484038512010-07-31T00:22:56.488+08:002010-07-31T00:22:56.488+08:00@ Alex: Give "Eyes Wide Shut" another tr...@ Alex: Give "Eyes Wide Shut" another try ;)<br /><br />@ That's a great analysis, Anonymous. Kubrick's last film is rather odd and enigmatic, just like Kubrick himself. With EWS, Kubrick said "goodbye" with a bang. Beautiful :)Iza Larizehttp://depthsofcinema.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821631260908917155.post-3378340530886345402009-10-25T13:19:16.879+08:002009-10-25T13:19:16.879+08:00There was a fascinating analysis of this film on y...There was a fascinating analysis of this film on youTube (since pulled).<br />In this analysis, the critic described Eyes Wide Shut as obeying dream logic, in which events moved in sequence, loaded with symbols. The strings of gold lights in the party sequence and in the costume shop denoted waystations, pauses before critical action. <br />When Nicole Kidman asks her husband about the host of the Christmas party, 'why does he invite us?', the second Cruise and Kidman separate, they get their answer - she is met by the suave older gentleman, he by two beautiful women. They are being seduced, lured into the Masonic orgy, led secretly by Cruise's boss, Sidney Pollock. The film is less a story of a troubled marriage than a dream of manipulation, hypnosis, and ritualized control. The analyist suggested Kubrick utilized Cruise's off screen oblique sexuality (as he was taunted by the gang in the car calling him 'faggot') to further drive home another undercurrent of the film - a man's horror of female sexuality, domination and seduction, fear of death caused by women (the prostitute with AIDS), the bold, perversely sexual daughter of the costumer, even the unrealized yet wild sexual imaginings of his own wife. Homosexuality lurks slightly in the wings, with the hotel front desk man's coquettish worship of Cruise, and the pansexual sex acts of the orgy, leading to a gruesome parallel world of exploitation and murder.<br />Eyes Wide Shut definitely gets better the more you watch it....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821631260908917155.post-6938758509908006312009-10-22T03:42:41.227+08:002009-10-22T03:42:41.227+08:00I never really liked this movie. Hard to connect e...I never really liked this movie. Hard to connect emotionally to it and not artsy enough to work by itselfAlex Constantinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940311552608814201noreply@blogger.com