Most likely Kubrick acknowledging how dozens of millions of american men react to all the things happening to their society. Epstein island happened, everyone knows about it but just like Tom Cruise’s character all they do is watch spots and drink beer. The movie is called “Eyes Wide Shut”. Tom’s character most likely represents the average modern American man.
...it is like from the beginning of his conception Bills life was going to be one of them anyway. Possibly old wealth/connections. Him choosing to be a Dr., was irrelevant. It's can he keep secrets.
Just look up what Nicole Kidman's father (who was a doctor like Cruises character) was accused of doing and watch the very end of the movie when the daughter is being taken away by two old men and you'll know what Eyes Wide Shut is about... And it's no coincidence as to why Kubrick cast Kidman and Cruise
Kidman’s father was a shrink and in a Satanic cult. I have listened to a woman’s detailed testimony of being abused by him and many others and her witnessing him involved in occult & sexual acts. Nicole Kidman was also involved / aware herself as a youth. Very powerful man, and a lot of Satanic occult stuff going on in Australia (even within churches).
Maybe Bill turning off the Christmas tree represents his awakening to the world around him. Much like a child coming to the realization that there is no Santa. Just a thought.
The Christmas trees are in every scene, except one: the masquerade bal. Although there is no Christmas tree adorned with ornaments and lights as in every other scene, the mansion itself is surrounded by evergreen trees. An evergreen tree was regarded as a phallic symbol of fertility worship. During Christmas time, we put decorative balls in the tree and those used to represent testicles. The light in the trees is an old symbol of light in the darkness, Light (good) winning over Darkness (evil). So when he puts of the Christmas tree, does he kill the hope? Or is the fallus symbol suddenly in the dark...but still there? It's intriguing to say the least.
The six young men represent the skull & bones secret society. Look at their shirts. They go to YALE. Another subliminal reference by the mastermind Kubrick. Also after they knock Tom (Bill) over there's a very subtle rainbow like lens flare on his coat.
ALSO Yale represents a more WASPy type school (with the notorious Skull&Bones secret society like you mentioned) and Nixon was a WASP who notoriously hated the “fággy” secret societies in San Francisco, was the most notorious J hater president and also had Watergate(which involved secret meetings to take place). With the pointing out of Menoras that Bill’s family has Kubrick is most likely pointing out the clashing of WASP and J secret societies/and elites. ALSSOOOO the “Harford”’s sound a lot like Harvard which is no doubt a J elite school, which is why the Yales boys directly clashed with Bill Harford. ALSO Bill Harford had a notably more J looking nose than the actor Tom Cruise and Bill’s wife had curly hair (like a J) but the real life actress has straight hair. I could be reading into this too much BUT their sure DOES SEEM LIKE A LOT OF COINCIDENCESSSSS.
The most bizarre layer of interpretation for me that I cannot unsee is the pedophile ring. Their kid going with the two old creeps stabbed my definition I had for the ending.
Apparently the 2 men take the daughter to the mansion and she is sacrificed. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubrick’s death. Someone in the comments saw the whole movie. The comment in the end when they say they need to fu.. , is because they lost a child and now will have another one.
@@poindextertuneswhat’s more likely is she’s being trafficked, like the rest of the women at the mansion. I don’t believe any random in comments that says they saw a mystical half hour of a movie that nobody else has ever claimed to see. 😂😂😂😂
@@torakfett3351nah that’s actually true - my parents refer to it as the “director’s cut, but you could only find the occasional one at your local blockbuster.” & people weren’t often reaching for the Eyes wide shut movie on Family movie nights in the early 00’s😂😂after a while they probably all disappeared once it switched to DVD as well. (Edit: oh, yes, because it was still VHS at the time 😅)lmao
There are theories that Alice was partaking in the party that can’t be talked about / has been for a long time / has a lot of power with them and all of this was an elaborate plan to tear down Bill’s masculinity, belittle him, embarrass him, turn him to jealousy. I don’t think I believe it at all but it may have been interesting to touch on
I believe that theory. She's clearly out to hurt him in many parts of the movie. Her confession, her dream, the math questions on who has more money, etc...
Thought the same, that she was "laughing at him" on several occasions, once while sleeping as he walked in. She seemed to "know" where he was, yet was cloaking her awareness by making it seem like she just dreamed about it. Her dream scenario was basically exactly where Bill had just come from.
P.S. The whole thing seemed like a Gangstaalking "Truman Show" plot against Bill as well. Everyone around him was "in on the scheme" including his wife.
Notice final scene when Alice is laying in bed asleep and the mask, how the lights create an effect as she is also wearing a mask. As to say that almost every character is wearing one even metaphorical.
I alsawys read the subtext as the elites worshiping venus and Saturn. Saturnalia ended on December 23/24, celebrated in a similar way at the org* with the gold and black colours of Saturn...explains the 'shutting out' of Xmas.... 8 pointed star of venus is everywhere at the first party, you can't miss it. Good video!
I remember reading somewhere that there were cases of parents dedicating their children for "Sacred prostitution" in a temple of Aphrodite (Venus) somewhere in Ancient Greece. Not too unlike to what ended up happening with that man who bought the costume shop.
This video is the first, after Rob Agers content, that I can actually take seriously. You get what Kubrick is about and it's not about him but about his work. Well done.
At exactly 14:04, when Zeigler sits on the pool table, there is a camera on the mantle - someone is watching - which a light is above. There are lights above the table and above the men's portraits to a lesser permanent degree. The ones above the table represent and are above Bill, Zeigler, the camera, and the unrepresented group of Zeigler's friends. All of these lights are from above. The only lights from below are 1. Out of sight and pointing towards a makeshift eye directly over and connected to Bill's shoulder. The only visible light from below illuminates a spiral, one of the major symbols of secretive sexual attraction to boys. Considering this and the symbols on the door of the mansion, it makes sense this spiral represents a built in foundation for this type of interests and the mansion party ruse and set up were carefully orchestrated from the beginning to assess Bill's ability to be introduced slowly to the ideas and practices the group participates in and judge his ability to keep secrets etc. with a built-in out resulting in his silence and the revoked opportunity for initiation into the group with control over his life still very much intact. Brilliant.
Christmas represents the fantasy, the dream-like world they run amok through, toying with their desires. Agree the switching off was deliberate, it lingers on for too long. I think it signifies sobering up to reality - that fantasy runs parallel to your worst nightmares, and in the light of day it was all never worth it.
Alice is 'The Pink Panther', a predator big cat that preys on rabbits and birds at night. She has people killed, includin Lou, Domino, Mandy, Nick, Bill and Helena.
@@Bardamu3000maybe not just alcohol alone. But the observation that his personal office/home has a large bar area with a elaborate pool table. Or the showing of rich and powerful people setting around having a drink. Or celebrating.
This observation then comment on that observation is precisely why we have ssuperstitious masses. 100 bottles of alcohol means there is 100 bottles of alcohol, you stated that, that's your opinion not fact. You didn't produce the film or props , that's my observation . In fact cohesion is impossible if you aren't aware . Come on people!
I think Alice gifting a Van Gogh puzzle is a interesting subtext as well. Gogh famously cut off one of his ears and sent them to a woman he was infatuated with. A man reduced to weakness over a woman who’s beyond his reach, something of a parallel for how Alice would like to see Bill.
Van Gogh and the Nutcracker ballet are things the rich and educated promoted to the middle and lower classes last century. I think they stand for the culture of the establishment, and they signal to the educated in the audience that Alice is like them, she likes what they like, she buys what they buy.
@sethgaston8347 I think there is a racial aspect to this movie that NOBODY wants to "explain", not the way they did with The Shining. Red hair is part of it. Van Gogh had red hair. It has to do with the white race, and the white Christian Americans, going the way of the dinosaur. To me, the movie is not about tortured love. Alice says she loves Bill, but she doesn't act like it. She doesn't seem at all happy to be with him. Bill seems strangely calm and happy to be with Alice, to me, in the last scene. I really don't get it.
@@hermanhale9258 I went into this in a different comment. As far as race is concerned, it’s not exactly the primary focus; but classism is, which has notes of racism. But Alice’s lack of love for Bill, yet her infatuation with the Naval Officer who she hadn’t even spoken to, exposes Bull’s weakness of being too weak. The story then focuses on it as Bill fails sexually for the rest of the entire film. He fails to have sex with actual street walkers or to even successfully enjoy a orgy and is intimated by actually powerful men. The entire film Bill CONSTANTLY brings up how he’s a doctor as he proudly showcases his Medical License; because it’s his crowning achievement, yet we get to men who are much richer, much more aggressive, and much sexually happier than he is, and who get the love of his wife, and POSSIBLY steal away his daughter (the last scene)
@@sethgaston8347 I never saw Bill attempt to have sex in the movie, he would have to get naked, first. Therefore, I have always thought, Bill is not really interested in having sex. Not with females, anyway. However, I did notice something just over the weekend, that I have never noticed in 100 plus viewings of EWS. When Bill is sitting on the side of the tub in Domino's apt. and she takes her coat and jacket/whatever off, I noticed the rim of the tub looks rather like a phallic symbol rising from Bill's crotch. Hence, I have to re-consider my old theory, because apparently Bill had a normal male reaction to the sight of a good-looking girl starting to undress.
The colour scheme plays a big part, blue represents reality, red represents temptation, sexuality, and the unknown. So the lady of the night wears a purple dress, because she represents temptation but also reality at the same time. The pram is blue, the roommate is wearing blue.
Agreed. A menorah will have nine branches, one for each of the eight nights and the servant candle to light the others. Those are just regular candelabras.
The Moorish arches at the secret rituals represent the Westernized version of "Babylon the Great", which has eclipsed the original version. The incomplete menorahs symbolize the irrelevancy of their identity as God's chosen children if they choose to partake in Satanic traditions.
Thanks for up loading. I hadn't noticed the Christmas/Halloween, commercial lighting that also appeared in a domestic setting. I had noticed that Bill is nearly always shown in a blue light. I would be interested to hear what you think about the lighting in the Shining. Particularly the chandeliers always directly above the actors head.They remind me of medieval crowns.
Ive always loved movies & shows you have to decode. Lost,Westworld,etc. Nothing is there by accident. Everything has meaning. The deeper you delve the more of the story you uncover. I love writing & you can do that to some degree. But with a visual storytelling format you have a whole new senses in the mix!
I enjoyed “the letter theory,” in that with just changing the ONE SCENE where Bill reads the letter threatening him to stay away it was changed before release. From a threat to go after his wife and child to the MUCH tamer threat of “we hope this will be sufficient,” It helps bring a lot of the story together, especially the ending.
The ride to Long Island shows the road 106/107 which goes north of the Long Island expressway known as the LIE which is another clue hence LIE . The towns on 106:107 are where millionaires and billionaires live upper brookvile oyster bay etc. old money .
Well, that's one theory but I see plenty of character development in Bill. He's not clueless as implied here- instead he is internally questioning every aspect of his life. Bill's quietly sensing a feeling of doom, his professional bland demeanor masking a brooding introspective psyche. He's playing simple when the reality is much deeper.
Frederic Raphael, the screenwriter, wanted the Harfords to be Jewish but Kubrick was opposed to that idea, he preferred the Harfords as ‘vanilla’ Americans. Kubrick added that Bill should be a ‘Harrison Ford-ish goy’ - hence Har-ford.
Cruise vears away from the bullies on the sidewalk. Because in a way, he is afraid of them. Afraid they will see that he is gay or that he is afraid of confrontation. He is also in a way afraid of his wife too. She requires too much from him and he can't give it. That is why the secret party and wearing a mask is so intriguing for him. He can be whatever he wants to be, if no one sees him. He likes to hide. But he is only a observer. That is why the red cloaked man confronts him. Also being just a observer, comes with a price. The naked woman steps up to give herself as a sacrifice. Why? I would of let them kill Cruise. Then I would of burned the mansion down. Before, I made an escape and stole a coat of course. This character, Cruise plays is a coward of the worst kind. He would allow a helpless woman to die for him. Go home and pretend it didn't happen. How many cowardly, sick, twisted men have actually done that? Unfortunately, quite a few.
Yea the movie isn’t funny to watch when the main protagonist is such a coward. All his friends that stuck their neck out for him die and he doesn’t care in the slightest. Also he’s weak for letting his wife walk all over him
Actually this is spot on. In the novella the movie was based on, the protagonist tries to sleep around to get revenge on his wife, after she confessed to have had sexual fantasies about another man.
you wouldn't have been able to escape, you would have been caught, sent to the island as an item on the menu. And you would have know this, and thus not taken action. you know that you would be even more Cowardly than Cruise. Those who scream coward are the most cowardly of all. don't get it twisted.
@craigcj5953 agree with you. Cruise's reaction is how many people would react in that very fucked up scenario and is not cowardly. If he was a total coward why would he go back to the mansion?
Good analysis! All art, especially film when that rare occurrence when genius directors are given complete control, are ultimately about the director. Kubrick was so smart and complex that his films are infinitely interesting. And a rorshack test of what you are about NOW. 2001 now is a completely different experience than when I saw it at age 12 in 1975. You'll never see the same Kubrick movie twice. Genius.
As the stroller goes, there is another apartment right next to dominos. It very well could be theirs, while strange it’s not inside; that’s a better spot than just in the middle of the hallway. It’s tucked away instead of being in the way.
When Domino says "maids day off" she's likely referring to herself, because she's "off" that day and by that she means taking care of her child. Because for her "work" is actually play by comparison to being a mom and keeping the kitchen clean, thus a further reference to food and the lower classes.
im struck by the bike being locked down but the pram being communal i mean a bike is a common symbol for a prostitute but you have a bike thats not for everyone to ride (makes sense she may be sick) but the the pram/stroller? ....there is a theme in this movie
I think there is alot deeper meanings too that you don't touch on. Dual meanings if you will. Thers also a theory the whole thing was to get him into the "club"
You can’t understand the movie if you don’t know about mind control and multiple personalities. Hints: The two girls in the creepy flat is the same girl. Yet, Cruise is both the doctor and red cloack, he just don’t know he is.
Movies and shows with a focus on sexual abuse often carry themes of split personalities and dissociative identy disorder. Twin peaks is all about that.
Sally and Domino are the same person. It's her alter egos or different characters she play to lure in tricks. People in her line of work, don't use their real names and often play games like this to hide their real identity. It's partly why mental health issues are so predominent in this industry; people lose themselves in their characters they play or create for roles or parts they either take on contractually or which they invent themselves - often for their own protection.
If you pause we're he's reading the article in the paper in sharkys there's an article on the left side about a city train shooting involving hostages and like 10-15 dead. So that's what the front page headline probably is about but I agree with you sir, that it's also about Bill and what he's gotten himself into
Have you watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish movie, that Vanilla Sky is an English language remake of? It has Penelope Cruz, in the same role, but is also different enough to be very enjoyable, on a much smaller budget.
Love your analysis. I watch this movie everytime it’s on one of my channels. Saw it when it opened was young had no idea. Left unimpressed. Now. It opens my eyes greatly.
Dominós home door has its door handle o the left and the door beside it has its door handle on the right . A clear representation that choices you make are what impact life. You do wrong choices (left door, going into prostitutes place, a bad, Wrong choice vs the door on the rihhh with the door handle on the right, the right choice.
In the toy store Bill sees (observes) someone and immediately lowers his head. The boy with the bubbles or the man with the girl who looks like a clone or copy of his daughter but now grown up? Whether Bill is sorry to recognize the beauty of the bubble boy who seems to be smiling at him (homosexuality) or sorry to see the older man with the young girl? remembrance of the costumes store. I think this Kubric film has nothing to hide, everything is there. And it seems like one of the most intimate works, that is to say that Bill's psyche is partly Kubrik's psyche and his worries and his suspicions. He didn't know more than we see in the movie. but leaves it well planted and established.
@CineG - Nice video. Interesting observations, particularly about the menorahs. I would clarify that technically a Chanukah menorah has 9 branches corresponding to the 8 nights of Chanukah and 1 central candle to light the others, one for each night of the holiday. Fewer candles do not make a Chanukah menorah. The reference to Judaism as the religion of TC and NK's characters is somewhat supported as postulated in this video although the menorahs with fewer branches might signify a non-traditional Jewish household. Chanukah is a festive holiday and typically the home is brightly lit and conveys a cheerful atmosphere. In this movie, however, the household gradually descends into darkness and the resolution at the end is a call to reproduction. Perhaps this is an indication of the Jewish need to re-grow their population after the Holocaust. The pretense of celebrating Christmas instead of Chanukah could point to the loss of faith following the Holocaust. How could a just God allow the slaughter of 50% of his "chosen" people? This question forever changed Judaic identity. The gradual transition toward a more secular practice of Jewish tradition, such as half heartedly and mechanically celebrating holidays without a sense of piety, began following WWII. According to several autobiographies, Kubrick was interested in making a movie about the Holocaust for decades, preliminarily by titled The Aryan Papers. He decided not to pursue this movie when Schindler's List came out. But embedding the psychological crisis of Judaic faith in this movie was, perhaps, his way of communicating a loss of foundational meaning in existence, relationships, and identity. Bill experiences a looming threat of nothingness and extinction, which was a reality for Jews during WWII, of being exposed as a fraud and liar. Interestingly, Kubrick himself was Jewish but did not practice Jewish tradition (to my knowledge) and married outside his religious affiliation. Perhaps his cameo as a background figure seen for brief few seconds in the bar scene was his way of acknowledging, as subtext, his identity as a post-Holocaust Jewish man. Arthur Schnitzler, the author of Dream Story was a close friend of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern Psychology. Both of them were Jewish and Schnitzler lived through the emergence of Nazism. Perhaps Eyes Wide Shut is a psychoanalytic dreamscape communicating symbolically the existential crisis of post-Holocaust Judaism..
New to channel. Now subscribed. This Jewish heritage angle actually makes more connections. He is a doctor and will be allowed CLOSE to levers of power (in USA) but will never be part of the inner sanctum. But they will be treated well and will have their spirituality. Their heritage. Why the Christmas decor is only in the larger public area.
As you mentioned "Dream Story", it's odd that you make the deliberate bumping by a young man as a Kubrick touch. It wasn't. In the book, the young men, described as students, did exactly the same thing. Kubrick filmed the incident 100% faithfully.
@@jaehyunlivedinamericafor4y879 Yes, and unlike some filmed version of novels it is incredibly accurate to the book, written in 1926. One in the eye, then for those who claim that Kubrick had discovered and exposed a secret cabal and that his death was really the result of them murdering him, masquerading as a heart attack. Some people believe the most ridiculous garbage.
@@essies4294 It was very true to the book. Which is why I liked his previous video on the film. Focused more on how kubrick's placing on characters and camera shots were his way of telling his own story, than the story of the film.
The thing is they say it's supposed to be like a dream. But the details you've dissected (or presented) are insightful. The thing you said about how he was coerced into finding the newspaper, but if it's supposed to dream like it just doesn't matter about the little details like that yet they do exist to make it coherent in reality. I think it's important to note, if we're being picky, that menorrah by the christmas tree has 7 candles. That's supposed to mean something else I think. It's called a temple menorrah, i just looked it up. It represents tree of life i guess. (it's not for channukah)
I was thinking of this movie not as purely a dream but as if the characters have some level of self awareness and creative control of the movie via their character’s ability to dream. I think this is what people mean when they say it is about power. Honestly the more I learn about this movie from videos like this the less value it has for me and the less I enjoy it.
Ziegler was supposed to be played by Harvey Keitel, but he dropped out. Is it a coincidence that Cruise’s mask looks just like Harvey Keitel? Not similar to HT, but identical to HT. Coincidence? I think not.
The problem with your theory is, that I don't think you know what a menorah is, what it's for or what they look like. They're never 5 branched - that's a candlabra - and they're never uneven hights. Something I'm sure Kubrick knew.
@@nojuanatall3281 yes, but not what I was addressing, he was calling a candlabra a menorah. They are not the same nor are they connected outside of the function of holding candles.
@@Nozarks1 which one are you talking about? There were several different candle holders. Perhaps you're not familier with what a menorah look like, they have 7 branches all in a row with one odd fellow off the center holder. The menorah is used to celebrate Chanukkah, the Festival of Lights, as a memorial to the rebuilding of the Temple. The odd fellow represents the single oil lamp that remained lit for seven days and all other candles are lit from. So you see, they cannot be five branched or nine branched, or be uneven in hight. My issue is not with the movie, it's with the presentor's misrepresentation and understanding of what a menorah is. For the record, I'm not Jewish.
Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but Bill to me comes off as someone who isn't comfortable in his sexuality. I think it's more than his confidence. My first time viewing the film was just the other day and between the 6 Yale thugs, the Rainbow costume shop, and the way Bill and Nick look at each other.. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I think Bill's character is bisexual. And if he is, then that certainly would put a wedge between him and his wife Alice.
@@Izzycentric you make a good point though, his eye contact with Nick, the way the hotel guy flirts with him, I'd not really thought about this. But I have often thought of the women in the movie as 'scarlet women' which is a kind of occult term for (red haired) women with special ways of 'opening' up men's sexuality.. a good example of this would be occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his (red-haired) girlfriend Marjorie Cameron who enlightned Jack by helping him accept his repressed bisexuality.
When Bill sits down to talk to Domino there is an angel post card over his left shoulder 6:36 When he returns to talk to Sally, the angel post card is gone. 6:45
One thing I noticed is that Bill is a standard, or rather, a boring guy. When Alice flirts with the Hungarian, it’s clear that he is an attractive man who knows what to say to a woman. Moreover, he is cultured, taller, and more refined; he’s the right guy for a party. On the other hand, Bill is terrible. When he’s accompanied by the two women, he has nothing to say. His only value is his medical skill, which is useful at times. He probably went to Ziegler’s house because it was Christmas, but for a private party, he likely wouldn’t be invited. At the masked ball, everyone is there, including Nightingale, his wife, and probably the Hungarian. When the woman says that Bill doesn’t belong there, it’s not a compliment. Another interesting scene is when Alice asks if he flirts with patients in the office. She is provoking him to see if there is still any masculinity left in him.
I know the meaning of this movie and to understand it entirely you must watch it through the lens of the occult. I’m in no way affiliated with them but understand there ideologies and I’ve got to say this movie is so layered no wonder it goes over everyone’s head.
@@YokaiX i just like wisdom and knowledge in general but i do love the Egyptians out of all since most teachings derived from them. This movie is so layered wonder how long it took him to write and put together.
It may be showing that they are doing what is socially acceptable celebrating Christmas despite the religious beliefs and turning off the tree is him reinforcing his belief. Probably is opposed to having the tree in the house but it’s more for his daughter.
The tree is for the daughter, he shuts it because they’re going to sacrifice her. Apparently 2 men take the daughter to the mansion. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubricks death.
Questioning Bill's masculinity is the whole point of this movie. When the receptionist hands Bill his mail and says "Your mail", you can interpret that as "You're male?"
I wonder what kind of impact the Ziegler character would have made if Harvey Keitel had stayed on the shoot. Incidentally the paintings in Bill and Alice's apartment were painted by Kubrick's wife Christiane. Her paintings were also used to decorate the wall's of Alex's flat in Clockwork Orange.
If any director had an artistic output that were made to be interpreted as a readers’ response, it was Kubrick. You could interpret his later work in a myriad of ways.
Alice is Passive Aggressive , when she asks Bill , " how she looks " , while peeing.... Bill didn't want to stare at her while peeing. She took it as an insult.
Because I read this in a magazine back in the 90s or earlier, I think the meaning of Bill walking into the bathroom while Alice is peeing is "The magic has gone out of their marriage." The hair comment may show loss of confidence, or it may be a vulgar joke directed to the men in the audience who are interested in watching Alice pee, seeing her underwear, and more.
I like how Bill waves his medical ID around like it's an all day pass to Disneyland.
@@aisle_of_view or a police badge
lol you silly
It kinda is.. xD
But at the very top of the social ladder, it just makes him a glorified member of the help.
Honestly that would’ve worked 25 years ago. Not that unrealistic
I can’t believe no one talks about the six guys with YALE shirts. SKULL AND BONES.
Stanley was
a master !
He was giving hits at who runs things and what they are all into.
You nailed it! I never caught that, but that’s EXACTLY a detail that Kubrick would have used. What a genius that guy was.
@@scotttild- exactly. He’s done that with other films… Dr Stranglove, 2001. Striking out at those “in charge of things.”
everybody misses the Fallen Angel statue when Bill goes up the stairs to help the prostitute. Explains it all.
@@tkxx1741 yes it does. ⚡️🦉👁
Every time Bill's masculinity is attacked or brought into question, he watches football and drinks beer.
wow
Most likely Kubrick acknowledging how dozens of millions of american men react to all the things happening to their society. Epstein island happened, everyone knows about it but just like Tom Cruise’s character all they do is watch spots and drink beer.
The movie is called “Eyes Wide Shut”. Tom’s character most likely represents the average modern American man.
what about when he's walking in the street
@@Bardamu3000haha what scene
He, man!
Dr. Bill sure lives well for a physician that has only two patients booked for his afternoon.
...it is like from the beginning of his conception Bills life was going to be one of them anyway. Possibly old wealth/connections. Him choosing to be a Dr., was irrelevant. It's can he keep secrets.
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I know, imagine how much that condo he has would cost in Manhattan.
I think he makes most of his money from being a concierge doc
You make money other ways as a physician. My wife has 3 "jobs" as a doctor but only works 36 hours a week at most.
Just look up what Nicole Kidman's father (who was a doctor like Cruises character) was accused of doing and watch the very end of the movie when the daughter is being taken away by two old men and you'll know what Eyes Wide Shut is about... And it's no coincidence as to why Kubrick cast Kidman and Cruise
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I can’t find anything about what he did other than his death. Can you explain or point me in the right direction?
Kidman’s father was a shrink and in a Satanic cult. I have listened to a woman’s detailed testimony of being abused by him and many others and her witnessing him involved in occult & sexual acts. Nicole Kidman was also involved / aware herself as a youth. Very powerful man, and a lot of Satanic occult stuff going on in Australia (even within churches).
@@vikki-333see my reply, forgot to tag you
@@vikki-333I think he was a pedo
Maybe Bill turning off the Christmas tree represents his awakening to the world around him. Much like a child coming to the realization that there is no Santa. Just a thought.
Maybe your right
I like this take
The Christmas trees are in every scene, except one: the masquerade bal. Although there is no Christmas tree adorned with ornaments and lights as in every other scene, the mansion itself is surrounded by evergreen trees. An evergreen tree was regarded as a phallic symbol of fertility worship. During Christmas time, we put decorative balls in the tree and those used to represent testicles. The light in the trees is an old symbol of light in the darkness, Light (good) winning over Darkness (evil). So when he puts of the Christmas tree, does he kill the hope? Or is the fallus symbol suddenly in the dark...but still there? It's intriguing to say the least.
We always switch off the tree before bedtime. In fact we do that with all the lights.
@@trikkke11 yeah, that's the thing with Kubrick; we tend to analyze every little detail.
Maybe he just wanted a shot of Tom switching off the lights.
I also find it interesting that he chose an actor and his real wife who had ties to the cult that basically had his daughter hostage at that time. 🧐
Could you elaborate? I'm curious
Stanley and Vivian had some sort of a falling out during the filming of this movie as well?
@@hntrl8880Scientology
@@hntrl8880 Cruise and Kidman were married in real life and apart of Scientology.
@@ohithur yeah but what do you mean by the cult "having his daughter hostage"?
Is it just me or do all the women look similar. Blonde/Red hair, slim, all have a Nicole Kidman ‘look’ about them.
One of the most tempting things is a girl who looks like a younger version of the woman you're madly in love with fpr 20+ years.
No coincidence.
@@fgoindarkg you’re dead right
I think it's a nod for p e d o p h i l i a as the women are waay to slim, almost as slim as the costume shop owner's daughter
Should i mention tall?
I believe Kubrick was too on point with this film. He exposed what the “elites” do on a weekend. I believe he was un-alived for this
Did you notice the two actors playing Epstein and Maxwell at the party? Blink and you’ll miss it.
@@caitlinroseblaney226 guessing it was Ziegler
i dont think he was killed for that specifically..there are so many movies about elite cults like these tbh made by big directors
@@kellykapoor2That use the Rothschilds mansion, satanic rituals and orgies hosted by social elites?
please give me some recommendations then 😂
@@earlycuyler4019 no it’s a guy in the background at Ziegler’s party
The six young men represent the skull & bones secret society. Look at their shirts. They go to YALE. Another subliminal reference by the mastermind Kubrick. Also after they knock Tom (Bill) over there's a very subtle rainbow like lens flare on his coat.
ALSO Yale represents a more WASPy type school (with the notorious Skull&Bones secret society like you mentioned) and Nixon was a WASP who notoriously hated the “fággy” secret societies in San Francisco, was the most notorious J hater president and also had Watergate(which involved secret meetings to take place). With the pointing out of Menoras that Bill’s family has Kubrick is most likely pointing out the clashing of WASP and J secret societies/and elites. ALSSOOOO the “Harford”’s sound a lot like Harvard which is no doubt a J elite school, which is why the Yales boys directly clashed with Bill Harford. ALSO Bill Harford had a notably more J looking nose than the actor Tom Cruise and Bill’s wife had curly hair (like a J) but the real life actress has straight hair.
I could be reading into this too much BUT their sure DOES SEEM LIKE A LOT OF COINCIDENCESSSSS.
Yep I would add that their plan was to make Bill pay the women and she is too part of the cult as them
He also falls against a blue BMW. Nazi company.
There's a Lebanese flag on the building behind them too for Canaanite symbolism. Milich = Moloch.
The most bizarre layer of interpretation for me that I cannot unsee is the pedophile ring. Their kid going with the two old creeps stabbed my definition I had for the ending.
Apparently the 2 men take the daughter to the mansion and she is sacrificed. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubrick’s death. Someone in the comments saw the whole movie. The comment in the end when they say they need to fu.. , is because they lost a child and now will have another one.
@@Nozarks1that sounds very highly unlikely
@@poindextertunes someone in the comments said they saw the 25 minutes that were removed. Who knows if that was the truth or not
@@poindextertuneswhat’s more likely is she’s being trafficked, like the rest of the women at the mansion.
I don’t believe any random in comments that says they saw a mystical half hour of a movie that nobody else has ever claimed to see.
😂😂😂😂
@@torakfett3351nah that’s actually true - my parents refer to it as the “director’s cut, but you could only find the occasional one at your local blockbuster.” & people weren’t often reaching for the Eyes wide shut movie on Family movie nights in the early 00’s😂😂after a while they probably all disappeared once it switched to DVD as well. (Edit: oh, yes, because it was still VHS at the time 😅)lmao
There are theories that Alice was partaking in the party that can’t be talked about / has been for a long time / has a lot of power with them and all of this was an elaborate plan to tear down Bill’s masculinity, belittle him, embarrass him, turn him to jealousy. I don’t think I believe it at all but it may have been interesting to touch on
I believe that theory. She's clearly out to hurt him in many parts of the movie. Her confession, her dream, the math questions on who has more money, etc...
She is the crypto-jewish of the family ;)
Thought the same, that she was "laughing at him" on several occasions, once while sleeping as he walked in.
She seemed to "know" where he was, yet was cloaking her awareness by making it seem like she just dreamed about it.
Her dream scenario was basically exactly where Bill had just come from.
P.S. The whole thing seemed like a Gangstaalking "Truman Show" plot against Bill as well.
Everyone around him was "in on the scheme" including his wife.
Yes. Alice provoked the entire story. I believe All part of the plan.
Kubrick’s films are like Da Vinci paintings. Messages and clues hidden in plain sight.
You betcha.
Notice final scene when Alice is laying in bed asleep and the mask, how the lights create an effect as she is also wearing a mask. As to say that almost every character is wearing one even metaphorical.
now you're just making stuff up
I alsawys read the subtext as the elites worshiping venus and Saturn. Saturnalia ended on December 23/24, celebrated in a similar way at the org* with the gold and black colours of Saturn...explains the 'shutting out' of Xmas.... 8 pointed star of venus is everywhere at the first party, you can't miss it. Good video!
I remember reading somewhere that there were cases of parents dedicating their children for "Sacred prostitution" in a temple of Aphrodite (Venus) somewhere in Ancient Greece. Not too unlike to what ended up happening with that man who bought the costume shop.
@@ian_occultist aka Star of Ishtar/Inanna
I was looking for this comment.
I'm glad to find the comment connecting this not to Christmas but to Saturnalia
I have heard some theories that Bill is actually a metaphor for Stanley.
I heard one that said Bill represented JFK Jr. He even dressed like him.
That was my impression. The insider Great Artist that was actually always an outsider.
It's really a disguised Mission: Impossible movie where he has to infiltrate a corrupt group of gazilionaires?
😂
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Ngl from some of the shots and Cruise being the lead, I totally thought the movie would go in that direction
Mission Impossible
-"Masks of Destiny Orgy"
I love how the back page of the news paper just says "COOL"
it really means LOOK
@bigol9223 look, I think it means cool, and I think it looks cool that, cool?
This video is the first, after Rob Agers content, that I can actually take seriously. You get what Kubrick is about and it's not about him but about his work. Well done.
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At exactly 14:04, when Zeigler sits on the pool table, there is a camera on the mantle - someone is watching - which a light is above. There are lights above the table and above the men's portraits to a lesser permanent degree. The ones above the table represent and are above Bill, Zeigler, the camera, and the unrepresented group of Zeigler's friends. All of these lights are from above. The only lights from below are 1. Out of sight and pointing towards a makeshift eye directly over and connected to Bill's shoulder. The only visible light from below illuminates a spiral, one of the major symbols of secretive sexual attraction to boys. Considering this and the symbols on the door of the mansion, it makes sense this spiral represents a built in foundation for this type of interests and the mansion party ruse and set up were carefully orchestrated from the beginning to assess Bill's ability to be introduced slowly to the ideas and practices the group participates in and judge his ability to keep secrets etc. with a built-in out resulting in his silence and the revoked opportunity for initiation into the group with control over his life still very much intact. Brilliant.
How do you know that's a camera? Look like a decoration to me. Hardly hidden bro.
I think it's a clock
@@nineteenfortyeightdefinitely a clock
Christmas represents the fantasy, the dream-like world they run amok through, toying with their desires. Agree the switching off was deliberate, it lingers on for too long. I think it signifies sobering up to reality - that fantasy runs parallel to your worst nightmares, and in the light of day it was all never worth it.
Really enjoyed the takes you have on this masterpiece of a movie. It only gets better as time goes on as we pick it apart.
Alice is 'The Pink Panther', a predator big cat that preys on rabbits and birds at night. She has people killed, includin Lou, Domino, Mandy, Nick, Bill and Helena.
Alcohol in movies represents power. So for Zeiglers room to have a hundred liquor bottles represents his immense power and connections
@@Bardamu3000maybe not just alcohol alone. But the observation that his personal office/home has a large bar area with a elaborate pool table. Or the showing of rich and powerful people setting around having a drink. Or celebrating.
Ahahahah ahahahah humanity is completely dead zzzzombies LOLOL.
@@Bardamu3000 🤣🤣😆
Nah, you are wayyyyy off
This observation then comment on that observation is precisely why we have ssuperstitious masses. 100 bottles of alcohol means there is 100 bottles of alcohol, you stated that, that's your opinion not fact. You didn't produce the film or props , that's my observation . In fact cohesion is impossible if you aren't aware . Come on people!
I think Alice gifting a Van Gogh puzzle is a interesting subtext as well. Gogh famously cut off one of his ears and sent them to a woman he was infatuated with.
A man reduced to weakness over a woman who’s beyond his reach, something of a parallel for how Alice would like to see Bill.
Van Gogh and the Nutcracker ballet are things the rich and educated promoted to the middle and lower classes last century. I think they stand for the culture of the establishment, and they signal to the educated in the audience that Alice is like them, she likes what they like, she buys what they buy.
@@hermanhale9258
That’s a part of it too, but why Van Gogh specifically? I think that correlation fits in better with the rest of the story.
@sethgaston8347 I think there is a racial aspect to this movie that NOBODY wants to "explain", not the way they did with The Shining. Red hair is part of it. Van Gogh had red hair. It has to do with the white race, and the white Christian Americans, going the way of the dinosaur. To me, the movie is not about tortured love. Alice says she loves Bill, but she doesn't act like it. She doesn't seem at all happy to be with him. Bill seems strangely calm and happy to be with Alice, to me, in the last scene. I really don't get it.
@@hermanhale9258
I went into this in a different comment. As far as race is concerned, it’s not exactly the primary focus; but classism is, which has notes of racism.
But Alice’s lack of love for Bill, yet her infatuation with the Naval Officer who she hadn’t even spoken to, exposes Bull’s weakness of being too weak. The story then focuses on it as Bill fails sexually for the rest of the entire film.
He fails to have sex with actual street walkers or to even successfully enjoy a orgy and is intimated by actually powerful men. The entire film Bill CONSTANTLY brings up how he’s a doctor as he proudly showcases his Medical License; because it’s his crowning achievement, yet we get to men who are much richer, much more aggressive, and much sexually happier than he is, and who get the love of his wife, and POSSIBLY steal away his daughter (the last scene)
@@sethgaston8347 I never saw Bill attempt to have sex in the movie, he would have to get naked, first. Therefore, I have always thought, Bill is not really interested in having sex. Not with females, anyway. However, I did notice something just over the weekend, that I have never noticed in 100 plus viewings of EWS. When Bill is sitting on the side of the tub in Domino's apt. and she takes her coat and jacket/whatever off, I noticed the rim of the tub looks rather like a phallic symbol rising from Bill's crotch. Hence, I have to re-consider my old theory, because apparently Bill had a normal male reaction to the sight of a good-looking girl starting to undress.
Food motif: interesting. A food motif runs in almost every scene of 2001, from the apes gobbling meat to....the last supper.
This movie totally push their most common hollyweird pathetic daily dose " The skinnier the prettier"
@@deathchronicles6960 ok tubby
it is strange because food is central to most holidays
The colour scheme plays a big part, blue represents reality, red represents temptation, sexuality, and the unknown. So the lady of the night wears a purple dress, because she represents temptation but also reality at the same time. The pram is blue, the roommate is wearing blue.
It appeared to me that Eyes Wide Shut took strong inspiration by two Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver and After Hours. That touched me very much.
The paranoia of being watched when you're not. But their influence is everywhere reminding you.
Not all candelabrae are menorah. Also, there are poinsettias in the living room which are a traditional Christmas decoration.
Agreed. A menorah will have nine branches, one for each of the eight nights and the servant candle to light the others. Those are just regular candelabras.
The Moorish arches at the secret rituals represent the Westernized version of "Babylon the Great", which has eclipsed the original version. The incomplete menorahs symbolize the irrelevancy of their identity as God's chosen children if they choose to partake in Satanic traditions.
yeah lost me with that one. Also I think the stroller is more of a sign that Domino and Sally were procurers of children for Ziegler.
lol yeah I didn't see a single menorah
the shots do draw attention to the candles though
Thanks for up loading. I hadn't noticed the Christmas/Halloween, commercial lighting that also appeared in a domestic setting.
I had noticed that Bill is nearly always shown in a blue light.
I would be interested to hear what you think about the lighting in the Shining. Particularly the chandeliers always directly above the actors head.They remind me of medieval crowns.
They always reminded me of crowns, too.
Each rewatch spurs more theories and thoughts. Such a classic
Ive always loved movies & shows you have to decode. Lost,Westworld,etc. Nothing is there by accident. Everything has meaning. The deeper you delve the more of the story you uncover. I love writing & you can do that to some degree. But with a visual storytelling format you have a whole new senses in the mix!
crazy that stanley kubrick just followed tom cruise around with a camera all day and made a movie out of it
Lol
I enjoyed “the letter theory,” in that with just changing the ONE SCENE where Bill reads the letter threatening him to stay away it was changed before release.
From a threat to go after his wife and child to the MUCH tamer threat of “we hope this will be sufficient,”
It helps bring a lot of the story together, especially the ending.
The ride to Long Island shows the road 106/107 which goes north of the Long Island expressway known as the LIE which is another clue hence LIE . The towns on 106:107 are where millionaires and billionaires live upper brookvile oyster bay etc. old money .
Well, that's one theory but I see plenty of character development in Bill. He's not clueless as implied here- instead he is internally questioning every aspect of his life. Bill's quietly sensing a feeling of doom, his professional bland demeanor masking a brooding introspective psyche. He's playing simple when the reality is much deeper.
Frederic Raphael, the screenwriter, wanted the Harfords to be Jewish but Kubrick was opposed to that idea, he preferred the Harfords as ‘vanilla’ Americans. Kubrick added that Bill should be a ‘Harrison Ford-ish goy’ - hence Har-ford.
HF is jewish
Harrison Ford-ish goy is ironic cuz Harrison Ford is still jewish
I’ve been to apartments where people just leave their strollers next to/ under steps, so they wouldn’t have to lug it up and down steps.
Yennada solra
very good point
Cruise vears away from the bullies on the sidewalk. Because in a way, he is afraid of them. Afraid they will see that he is gay or that he is afraid of confrontation. He is also in a way afraid of his wife too.
She requires too much from him and he can't give it.
That is why the secret party and wearing a mask is so intriguing for him. He can be whatever he wants to be, if no one sees him. He likes to hide.
But he is only a observer. That is why the red cloaked man confronts him.
Also being just a observer, comes with a price. The naked woman steps up to give herself as a sacrifice.
Why? I would of let them kill Cruise. Then I would of burned the mansion down. Before, I made an escape and stole a coat of course.
This character, Cruise plays is a coward of the worst kind. He would allow a helpless woman to die for him. Go home and pretend it didn't happen.
How many cowardly, sick, twisted men have actually done that? Unfortunately, quite a few.
Yea the movie isn’t funny to watch when the main protagonist is such a coward. All his friends that stuck their neck out for him die and he doesn’t care in the slightest. Also he’s weak for letting his wife walk all over him
Actually this is spot on. In the novella the movie was based on, the protagonist tries to sleep around to get revenge on his wife, after she confessed to have had sexual fantasies about another man.
you wouldn't have been able to escape, you would have been caught, sent to the island as an item on the menu. And you would have know this, and thus not taken action. you know that you would be even more Cowardly than Cruise. Those who scream coward are the most cowardly of all. don't get it twisted.
@craigcj5953 agree with you. Cruise's reaction is how many people would react in that very fucked up scenario and is not cowardly. If he was a total coward why would he go back to the mansion?
@@fast6232 Wtf was ge supposed to do?
the couple on the balcony was probably the costume shop owner and his daughter since he knows that he just sold that mask to bill, thats why they nod
@@taxesrtheft also at the shop, he asks Bill what costume he wants, “clowns, officers, pirates”. Pirates eh?
Good analysis!
All art, especially film when that rare occurrence when genius directors are given complete control, are ultimately about the director.
Kubrick was so smart and complex that his films are infinitely interesting.
And a rorshack test of what you are about NOW.
2001 now is a completely different
experience than when I saw it at age 12 in 1975.
You'll never see the same Kubrick movie twice.
Genius.
Rorshach - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
@@thorn262 at least it didn't autocorrect to Horshack!
As the stroller goes, there is another apartment right next to dominos. It very well could be theirs, while strange it’s not inside; that’s a better spot than just in the middle of the hallway. It’s tucked away instead of being in the way.
very possible
One small thing, there is a NY Jets game going on in 2 scenes.Might be nothing but this is Kubrick.
Maybe a stand in for another major league "Jets"?
I’ve heard some theories that Bill is a metaphor for Stanley
there were 2 NY Jets in 2001
@TheJets9900 Username with jets talking about NY Jets? There is "I
People are the food.
When Domino says "maids day off" she's likely referring to herself, because she's "off" that day and by that she means taking care of her child. Because for her "work" is actually play by comparison to being a mom and keeping the kitchen clean, thus a further reference to food and the lower classes.
im struck by the bike being locked down but the pram being communal i mean a bike is a common symbol for a prostitute
but you have a bike thats not for everyone to ride (makes sense she may be sick) but the the pram/stroller? ....there is a theme in this movie
I think there is alot deeper meanings too that you don't touch on. Dual meanings if you will. Thers also a theory the whole thing was to get him into the "club"
I only had to click away from ads four times to get this video to play. Thanks for that.
You can’t understand the movie if you don’t know about mind control and multiple personalities. Hints: The two girls in the creepy flat is the same girl. Yet, Cruise is both the doctor and red cloack, he just don’t know he is.
Cover of the movie is them in a mirror
Ahahahah ahahahah television crack head's LOLOL
@nexussymbiosis9270 what?
Movies and shows with a focus on sexual abuse often carry themes of split personalities and dissociative identy disorder. Twin peaks is all about that.
For being the Red Cloak, Bill has to be the Hungarian -Sandor Szavost- too.
Sally and Domino are the same person.
It's her alter egos or different characters she play to lure in tricks.
People in her line of work, don't use their real names and often play games like this to hide their real identity.
It's partly why mental health issues are so predominent in this industry; people lose themselves in their characters they play or create for roles or parts they either take on contractually or which they invent themselves - often for their own protection.
how does that make them the same person? 🤔
@@poindextertunes I just explained that, did you not read what I wrote?
@@Daggz90 hm… different actresses.
At 3:24 am i the only one thinking that reflection on the car window is abit off?
If you pause we're he's reading the article in the paper in sharkys there's an article on the left side about a city train shooting involving hostages and like 10-15 dead. So that's what the front page headline probably is about but I agree with you sir, that it's also about Bill and what he's gotten himself into
Mozart's Requiem is playing in the background.
Great movie. Great video. Thanks for the analysis. Always looking for new vids on this and VANILLA SKY.
Have you watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish movie, that Vanilla Sky is an English language remake of?
It has Penelope Cruz, in the same role, but is also different enough to be very enjoyable, on a much smaller budget.
@@CorbCorbin Got it on DVD. I must say even though I have it I haven't watched it as much as I probably should.
Vanilla Sky had a message of hope in the end though.
@@sarahelenatheoriginal709 True.
@@CorbCorbin
Yes they're both very good, in different ways.
Love your analysis. I watch this movie everytime it’s on one of my channels. Saw it when it opened was young had no idea. Left unimpressed. Now. It opens my eyes greatly.
It's not a Menorah unless it holds 8 candles (or, 8 plus 1 for lighting the others).
Excellent video. I believe this movie is a puzzle with missing pieces, but these are great insights nevertheless.
At 15:00 in this video there is a Xmas decoration with an inverted pentagram in between Tom cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Also each side creates the seal of masonry showing their relation.
What a good channel!!! Keep it up buddy, you're doing a great job.
Dominós home door has its door handle o the left and the door beside it has its door handle on the right . A clear representation that choices you make are what impact life. You do wrong choices (left door, going into prostitutes place, a bad, Wrong choice vs the door on the rihhh with the door handle on the right, the right choice.
In the toy store Bill sees (observes) someone and immediately lowers his head. The boy with the bubbles or the man with the girl who looks like a clone or copy of his daughter but now grown up? Whether Bill is sorry to recognize the beauty of the bubble boy who seems to be smiling at him (homosexuality) or sorry to see the older man with the young girl? remembrance of the costumes store. I think this Kubric film has nothing to hide, everything is there. And it seems like one of the most intimate works, that is to say that Bill's psyche is partly Kubrik's psyche and his worries and his suspicions. He didn't know more than we see in the movie. but leaves it well planted and established.
Dude, the first example is not a menorah. It's a candelabra.
@CineG - Nice video. Interesting observations, particularly about the menorahs. I would clarify that technically a Chanukah menorah has 9 branches corresponding to the 8 nights of Chanukah and 1 central candle to light the others, one for each night of the holiday. Fewer candles do not make a Chanukah menorah. The reference to Judaism as the religion of TC and NK's characters is somewhat supported as postulated in this video although the menorahs with fewer branches might signify a non-traditional Jewish household. Chanukah is a festive holiday and typically the home is brightly lit and conveys a cheerful atmosphere. In this movie, however, the household gradually descends into darkness and the resolution at the end is a call to reproduction. Perhaps this is an indication of the Jewish need to re-grow their population after the Holocaust. The pretense of celebrating Christmas instead of Chanukah could point to the loss of faith following the Holocaust. How could a just God allow the slaughter of 50% of his "chosen" people? This question forever changed Judaic identity. The gradual transition toward a more secular practice of Jewish tradition, such as half heartedly and mechanically celebrating holidays without a sense of piety, began following WWII. According to several autobiographies, Kubrick was interested in making a movie about the Holocaust for decades, preliminarily by titled The Aryan Papers. He decided not to pursue this movie when Schindler's List came out. But embedding the psychological crisis of Judaic faith in this movie was, perhaps, his way of communicating a loss of foundational meaning in existence, relationships, and identity. Bill experiences a looming threat of nothingness and extinction, which was a reality for Jews during WWII, of being exposed as a fraud and liar. Interestingly, Kubrick himself was Jewish but did not practice Jewish tradition (to my knowledge) and married outside his religious affiliation. Perhaps his cameo as a background figure seen for brief few seconds in the bar scene was his way of acknowledging, as subtext, his identity as a post-Holocaust Jewish man. Arthur Schnitzler, the author of Dream Story was a close friend of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern Psychology. Both of them were Jewish and Schnitzler lived through the emergence of Nazism. Perhaps Eyes Wide Shut is a psychoanalytic dreamscape communicating symbolically the existential crisis of post-Holocaust Judaism..
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This Jewish heritage angle actually makes more connections. He is a doctor and will be allowed CLOSE to levers of power (in USA) but will never be part of the inner sanctum.
But they will be treated well and will have their spirituality. Their heritage.
Why the Christmas decor is only in the larger public area.
The stroller was used as a shopping cart or something to carry stuff back-and-forth with
As you mentioned "Dream Story", it's odd that you make the deliberate bumping by a young man as a Kubrick touch. It wasn't. In the book, the young men, described as students, did exactly the same thing. Kubrick filmed the incident 100% faithfully.
@@jaehyunlivedinamericafor4y879 Yes, and unlike some filmed version of novels it is incredibly accurate to the book, written in 1926. One in the eye, then for those who claim that Kubrick had discovered and exposed a secret cabal and that his death was really the result of them murdering him, masquerading as a heart attack. Some people believe the most ridiculous garbage.
@tomie I am not @tony bennett but yes, and the movie was VERY faithful to the book, which conspiracy theorists don’t seem to know or realize.
@@essies4294 It was very true to the book. Which is why I liked his previous video on the film. Focused more on how kubrick's placing on characters and camera shots were his way of telling his own story, than the story of the film.
Did they wear Skull&Bones' YALE shirts in the book too?
@@essies4294conspiracy theorists are ignoring everything that spoils their narrative 😂
The thing is they say it's supposed to be like a dream. But the details you've dissected (or presented) are insightful. The thing you said about how he was coerced into finding the newspaper, but if it's supposed to dream like it just doesn't matter about the little details like that yet they do exist to make it coherent in reality. I think it's important to note, if we're being picky, that menorrah by the christmas tree has 7 candles. That's supposed to mean something else I think. It's called a temple menorrah, i just looked it up. It represents tree of life i guess. (it's not for channukah)
I was thinking of this movie not as purely a dream but as if the characters have some level of self awareness and creative control of the movie via their character’s ability to dream. I think this is what people mean when they say it is about power. Honestly the more I learn about this movie from videos like this the less value it has for me and the less I enjoy it.
@@lopiklopit’s not a menorah if it has less than 9 branches total.
That wasn't a menorah. It was a candelabra.
Ziegler was supposed to be played by Harvey Keitel, but he dropped out.
Is it a coincidence that Cruise’s mask looks just like Harvey Keitel? Not similar to HT, but identical to HT.
Coincidence? I think not.
The problem with your theory is, that I don't think you know what a menorah is, what it's for or what they look like. They're never 5 branched - that's a candlabra - and they're never uneven hights. Something I'm sure Kubrick knew.
That's why he mentioned the kabbalh or Jewish mysticism. Perhaps the 5 and 7 relate to particular parts of the tree of life or their life paths.
@@nojuanatall3281 yes, but not what I was addressing, he was calling a candlabra a menorah. They are not the same nor are they connected outside of the function of holding candles.
It looks like a menorah and got the message across
@@Nozarks1 which one are you talking about? There were several different candle holders. Perhaps you're not familier with what a menorah look like, they have 7 branches all in a row with one odd fellow off the center holder. The menorah is used to celebrate Chanukkah, the Festival of Lights, as a memorial to the rebuilding of the Temple. The odd fellow represents the single oil lamp that remained lit for seven days and all other candles are lit from. So you see, they cannot be five branched or nine branched, or be uneven in hight.
My issue is not with the movie, it's with the presentor's misrepresentation and understanding of what a menorah is.
For the record, I'm not Jewish.
@@Nozarks1 thats like saying a Lexus is Mitsubishi symbolism
That decoration is a great catch and a huge clue
The stroller could just belong from someone upstairs. They probably just leave it downstairs by the stairs.
This movie is just about a weekend at hillary Clinton’s house
If you only knew the truth about the Clinton's.
@@username23156 friends with Epstein along with Trump
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The mirror in Ziegler's bathroom is eerily similar than the one in the Harford's bedroom.
Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but Bill to me comes off as someone who isn't comfortable in his sexuality. I think it's more than his confidence. My first time viewing the film was just the other day and between the 6 Yale thugs, the Rainbow costume shop, and the way Bill and Nick look at each other.. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I think Bill's character is bisexual. And if he is, then that certainly would put a wedge between him and his wife Alice.
the other thing is - the Hollywood rumours that Tom Cruise is gay
Ah, great observation @@noklarok
@@Izzycentric you make a good point though, his eye contact with Nick, the way the hotel guy flirts with him, I'd not really thought about this. But I have often thought of the women in the movie as 'scarlet women' which is a kind of occult term for (red haired) women with special ways of 'opening' up men's sexuality.. a good example of this would be occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his (red-haired) girlfriend Marjorie Cameron who enlightned Jack by helping him accept his repressed bisexuality.
@@Izzycentric the more he tries to force himself to get comfortable with it, the worse it gets for him
Nicole is in the mask club for real
Bill mixes the 2 places the Party and the House in his last scene with Ziegler.
When Bill sits down to talk to Domino there is an angel post card over his left shoulder 6:36 When he returns to talk to Sally, the angel post card is gone. 6:45
so
I don't consider all of those candle holders menorahs. LOL
@@jennicase they’re not. Menorahs have 9 branches total and are all lined up
One thing I noticed is that Bill is a standard, or rather, a boring guy. When Alice flirts with the Hungarian, it’s clear that he is an attractive man who knows what to say to a woman. Moreover, he is cultured, taller, and more refined; he’s the right guy for a party. On the other hand, Bill is terrible. When he’s accompanied by the two women, he has nothing to say. His only value is his medical skill, which is useful at times. He probably went to Ziegler’s house because it was Christmas, but for a private party, he likely wouldn’t be invited.
At the masked ball, everyone is there, including Nightingale, his wife, and probably the Hungarian. When the woman says that Bill doesn’t belong there, it’s not a compliment.
Another interesting scene is when Alice asks if he flirts with patients in the office. She is provoking him to see if there is still any masculinity left in him.
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Stanley Kubrick was such a genius, he bordered insanity
The WHOLE of history is conspiratorial. Imagine being so dumb that you let the conspirators convince you that there's no conspiracy.
Yes exactly you understand I was here for anxiety, rage, and disbelief!
I know the meaning of this movie and to understand it entirely you must watch it through the lens of the occult. I’m in no way affiliated with them but understand there ideologies and I’ve got to say this movie is so layered no wonder it goes over everyone’s head.
@@kaynesworld4900 which occultisms are you familiar with specifically?
@@YokaiX i just like wisdom and knowledge in general but i do love the Egyptians out of all since most teachings derived from them. This movie is so layered wonder how long it took him to write and put together.
I dont understand why you call that decoration christmas and halloween, there are no halloween elements its a purely christmas decoration
in the original script those young goons shouted anti sematic slurs at bill but kubrick removed the slurs.
It may be showing that they are doing what is socially acceptable celebrating Christmas despite the religious beliefs and turning off the tree is him reinforcing his belief. Probably is opposed to having the tree in the house but it’s more for his daughter.
The tree is for the daughter, he shuts it because they’re going to sacrifice her. Apparently 2 men take the daughter to the mansion. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubricks death.
How is that decoration both Halloween and Christmas? I didnt see any eyes lol
Questioning Bill's masculinity is the whole point of this movie. When the receptionist hands Bill his mail and says "Your mail", you can interpret that as "You're male?"
you missed the "rainbow" disguise shop, run a by a Russian, with two oriental "clients", and a certain daughter...much to digest there...
Gotta be one of the scariest movies ever
The sex party scene is pretty tame compared to a Diddy party.
He has parties with no food, just all the alcohol you want. Everyone ends up drunk on their ass. Crazy!!
I wonder what kind of impact the Ziegler character would have made if Harvey Keitel had stayed on the shoot.
Incidentally the paintings in Bill and Alice's apartment were painted by Kubrick's wife Christiane. Her paintings were also used to decorate the wall's of Alex's flat in Clockwork Orange.
If any director had an artistic output that were made to be interpreted as a readers’ response, it was Kubrick. You could interpret his later work in a myriad of ways.
And then they killed Kubrick…
Alice is Passive Aggressive , when she asks Bill , " how she looks " , while peeing.... Bill didn't want to stare at her while peeing. She took it as an insult.
Because I read this in a magazine back in the 90s or earlier, I think the meaning of Bill walking into the bathroom while Alice is peeing is "The magic has gone out of their marriage." The hair comment may show loss of confidence, or it may be a vulgar joke directed to the men in the audience who are interested in watching Alice pee, seeing her underwear, and more.
The thing about great art is that you can read many different things into it. So there maybe something to all that you say, or there maybe not!