Does Tom Cruise give a Bruce Wayne vibe in this movie or is it just me lol Ironically with Bruce Waynes wealth and elite family he is more likely to be a part of them parties either participating or trying to stop it.

5 more hours to go.

The Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

https://youtu.be/-jD3D_TK3Lc

To be fair, this video has a few nuggets of insight, and I dig these looney tunes theories as much as the next person, but isn't it time for some real analysis to be done on this film and crack it wide open?

They are like parodies at this point, and I find myself embarrassed sometimes calling myself a fan of the film.

There was no NEED to do this with the female patient and he ONLY did it with the attractive ones but when it came to children he drawed the line completely. Was this Kubrick's way off showing he was willing to take advantage of attractive women and showing his hypocrisy and his weakness as even Alice highlighted this as a reason for her to be jealous and hate him but he still did it. Does this show how flawed he is as a character but despite this he ain't as depraved or messed up as the characters he would meet in the costume shop or the eyes wide shut sex party.

In Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the sex party plays like a dream, a hall of mirrors. Lots of masked women who resemble Alice in body type. We see her in the same state of undress in the opening shot. Lots of masked men who, like Bill, are avoiding exposure. Some characters who people wonder, "Is that Ziegler? Or is that Ziegler?" And Nick who has to be blindfolded. He's about as rigorously drawn of a double for Bill as you'll find. He's blindfolded to keep his eyes wide shut to the machinations of the elite underworld, but what intrigues Bill is the time that blindfold literally slipped, leaving his eyes wide open. Characters who become many characters and uncanny places that feel both familiar and strange, uncanny, are hallmarks of Freud's "dream-work." So are slips. Bill wants to know everything. That blindfold not being "on so well" was loose out of a desire to see. Bill wants to see "everything" and ends up telling Alice "everything" to which she responds with dear, you're a mess, you can't handle everything, some things are better kept hidden or you won't sleep so well, so close your eyes again and let's just "fuck."

I'll add that Kubrick toiled away for years preparing to make the Holocaust drama Aryan Papers based on the novel Wartime Lies. The more truth his research uncovered, the more depressed he became. (It's didn't help that one of his core texts was The Destruction of the European Jews, a detailed book about the machinations of the Nazi killing apparatus.) He abandoned the project and quickly turned to Eyes Wide Shut using the crew he'd already assembled, a project that had obsessed him for decades. He kept one other set of ideas from the abandoned film. Aryan Papers is about Maciek, a young Jewish boy, and his aunt Tania who is beautiful and can have/manipulate men at will. They avoid detection by "masking" themselves with forged identity papers that pass them off as Catholics. Maciek even learns how to convincingly behave during Mass. There's a constant motif in the story of how Maciek must do whatever is necessary to not allow anyone to see him naked below the waist. He even remains very sick in bed rather than see a doctor. That's the exposure that would give them away, and Tania constantly risks her life, sacrifices herself, to make sure that never happens. Mandy was a Kubrick addition for EyesWideShut, not in Schnitzler's novella. She literally sacrifices herself to avoid Bill's exposure by removing his clothes. I mean, isn't that order to remove all his clothing odd when mask alone is sufficient to reveal his identity?

The whole point of Freud’s dream-work is to disguise things that are repressed and troubling. If they appear in one's dreams in naked form, they'll turn dream to nightmare and awaken the sleeper. Kubrick insisted all references to the characters in Eyes Wide Shut being Jewish be removed. The scene where Bill is tormented by young men hurling homophobic slurs at him replaced the same only with antisemitic slurs in an earlier draft. I think Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick realizing he couldn't deal with the unvarnished truth of the Holocaust, and so he disguised it as something else.

Kubrick and Steven Spielberg were friends and collaborators and I can easily imagine one point of frequent disagreement. They had opposite views of humanity. Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is about opening one's eyes to see the world unvarnished and closing them again after realizing it's just too much to handle, too disturbing of one's sleep. Disclosure Day debates whether people can handle knowing everything. Will it destroy faith in God or people? And the film answers, replacing Kubrick’s pessimism with Spielberg's optimism, in the affirmative, ending with a plea to open one's ears and "Listen." Disclosure Day's sequence beginning in the recreation of Margaret's childhood bedroom is like psychotherapy. It's about bringing what she has repressed out into the open so she and Daniel can move forward to fulfill their shared destiny.

It's 5hrs long and is only part 1, but if you know Eye Scream, you'll know that it is immaculately presented and is wildly, madly, full of nuggets of speculation. Far more interesting than the usual conspiracy theory Illuminati Epstein crap of late.

https://youtu.be/-jD3D_TK3Lc?si=2S2MkdXSEi2ocNm_