Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut, man now is this the movie to see. The final film by director Stanley Kubrick is very controversial and very disturbing. It deals with the Illuminati and how possibly there's a greater factor in the world that may involve people we least suspect.

Tom Cruise is Dr. William "Bill" Harford, a wealthy doctor living with his wife and daughter in New York. After attending this big party thrown by one of his wealthy patients, Bill and wife Alice end up smoking some pot at home. Later that night, there is an argument that pursues in his wife confessing that she had feelings for someone she saw while on vacation a year ago. After realizing this blow, Bill walks the streets of New York and gets himself into some trouble. Kubrick depicts Bill to be a person of high authority yet at the same time also innocent and honest amongst the people he meets and associates with. He is a truly good-hearted family man and when his wife tells him this, he seems to change drastically. Feeling violated and lost. Meeting up with an old school friend, he is invited to a party which is much more than it seems. It's up to Bill to figure out the connections. Who could be involved? How did it come about?

Stanley Kubrick's style of directing this film really makes you uncomfortable and you have to see this film several times in order to fully understand and appreciate it. One of the most disturbing scenes in the film involve the possible existence of the Illuminati and some of the horrible and disgusting things they do. Kubrick I'm sure wanted to depict more, however there is evidence that suggests that the studio wanted to keep things out of it in order for the film to retain an R-rating. I personally think that Kubrick would not have changed his film for anything or anybody. So, his death may have something to do with the film. Also, Eyes Wide Shut seems to be the only film Kubrick did that was tampered with. Now it is unclear if the Illuminati do exist, but there are many factors that just add up thanks to this film that leads us to a possible theory that they do. We may never figure out if they do or not. Along with this this theory, is the death of Kubrick himself.

Anyway, not to go off on a tangent, this movie is must more than what the titles says. As Tom Cruise isn't my favorite actor, he does give a pretty good performance in that he is basically the audience. He goes along with the movie as we watch the film and the events in it. He is an outsider looking into this world created by the wealthy. Yes, he is a doctor and is of high status, yet he is also out of this loop of very secret people and once he peeks in, dire consequences will occur if he pursues it and keeps asking questions to those he suspects are or are not involved. If you are one to think outside the box and look at possible meanings, then of course Stanley Kubrick is the director for you and Eyes Wide Shut is the movie to watch at least once.