EYES WIDE SHUT - Redux Review

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[jimbojiveable]

this movie sticks with you for a while, like a stain you can't quite wash away. the visuals, the soundtrack, the emotions and thoughts that it evokes. it's not easily forgotten, if you truly watch it. it imprints itself on your soul, like any great piece of art that speaks to you. this film is deep. in fact i think there is more below the surface than what is presented to us in this film and that's why most people don't like it or get it. most people don't want to think or feel (esp if the emotions are uncomfortable) they don't want subtlety or ambiguity, they want in your face, instant gratification, entertainment. i think it's a true sign that society has collapsed when the only art it produces is shallow and pointless. we're not quite there yet but seem to be headed in that direction. and not all art, but i think the movie industry at least in this country is a prime example. great review btw

[baraka]

In my opinion I believe this is Stanley's Masterpiece. I have seen this movie over 4 times and I always see and am aware of new

[GuamoKun]

This movie is the “most real” out of all Kubrick’s movies I think. He considered it “his greatest contribution” to cinema and I kinda agree because yeah we can wax philosophical about movies like 2001 and A Clockwork Orange but like you said it says so much about “the human experience”.

Just the shot of Tom Cruise’s face as Nicole Kidman has her monologue is some of the most intense movie making I’ve ever seen

[markandremy]

I'm so happy you came back to this film. This has been one of my personal all time faves since watching it in the theaters! It always made me sad that people didn't like it...but as you said, this film, like any good dream, needs to be reviewed at different points in one's life. It's both simple AND complex, the mirroring of sex purchased by rich and 'poor' alike...Glad you gave it a more fair shake this time around!

[EtherealMaryJane]

Eyes Wide Shut is a movie that requires Many viewings to grasp it. Every time I watch it I see it differently.

[jamespotter]

It is a masterpiece. It's purposely lacking eroticism. It's about infidelity, it's about the impracticality of love, the unobtainable nature of love, we want ownership of another person, but free will is there to screw it up. It's about other things as well. I'm a big Kubrick fan - I believe most, if not all, his films are near perfect - yes, even the earlier ones. As a swansong, this film was the perfect pay off. I was always bemused by how almost universally the film was panned. I saw it when it first came out, I loved it. As I grow older, the films grows with me and my interpretation of it shifts - that is the genius of Kubrick - watch his films at 16 or 66 and you get something different from them.

[clumsydad]

eyes wide shut is very solid and getting better with age ... when seen in the arc of his oeuvre and themes, makes a lot of sense.

[terencereyes]

Hi there, you took a risk here that other youtube reviewers wouldn't do, which is to sort of question yourself or critique a critique that you made, and you brought down your pride for that and that's commendable. Honestly you still made some very great points from your initial review, I would say this is just an extension of that. Great video, always watching out for your next ones 👏🏽

[BackDoorFlush]

Im so happy that you've done a second review. It was lingering in my mind how you spoke about the movie, it felt weird. Now it's lifted off my shoulders, like a cloud popping :)

[ichidome]

i love how—mid all the rabbit holes at every turn in this film (ahem, Alice)—Kubrick also takes great care in dialoguing with his cinematic heroes, most notably Max Ophuls. of course, that’s a whole set of rabbit holes in itself too! for example, Ophuls also adapted Schnitzler before Kubrick, and the literary undercurrent that runs through all Kubrick’s work is always worth mining for… Gold

[heartlights]

Good point about comparing/contrasting Lolita and EWS. Crazy to think those two movies, each reflecting a vastly different time period, came from the same person.

[glyndwr]

A lot of Kubrick's movies are like this. A lot of critics dismissed The Shining and this film as well. Woody Allen said that he dismissed Space Odyssey the first time he saw it.

[johnbobjoe]

Eyes Wide Shut is an extraordinary film. 2001 and Barry Lyndon are Kubrick’s masterpieces, but Eyes Wide Shut gets pretty close to that level. It’s an easy top 4 Kubrick for me.

[yourwitsaboutyou]

I watch this movie every Christmas. The first time I watched it was around Oct/Nov during freshman year at college and I fell asleep the first few times. Then I watched it -- and was hooked. It's awesome to watch in a hazy state. I love how you say -- you notice different things every time you watch it. It's so true. This year I was focused so much on the aspect ratio. One version of the DVD I have it's the full frame aspect ratio. I'm always puzzled by the set manipulation too. We see the same exterior set, but mixed around to make different street facades. I try to focus in on this when I watch the film now, but I can't wrap my head around it. I love this movie so much. Thanks for another stellar review.

[makethebestofwhatsaround]

Thank you for revisiting Eyes Wide Shut. This past December, I watched this at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago as part of their twisted/alternate Christmas series. The film received a standing ovation.

[thoso]

I'm on the 'Masterpiece wagon' since I first saw it in 1999. Some people and reviewers back then expected a sex-thriller in the style of Basic Instinct. It's nothing like that; it's a study of humanity, like every film Kubrick made. Confidence, desire, relationship, marriage. Before I saw it, I used to believe that only two people truly knows what's going on in any relationship or marriage. After EWS I realized that those two people likely have their own individual secrets and desires that their partner knows nothing about.

[domwalker]

I watched your original review the other day and I was like man she ripped this apart. I'm glad you did this re review because I think this sounds a lot more like one of your well balanced reviews. This is a great film

[mordantfilms]

As a Kubrick fanatic, I couldn't wait for Eyes Wide Shut to hit theaters. My first theatrical Kubrick experience was in '87 when Full Metal Jacket was released. So, when Eyes came out so much exitement had been built up, that when I finally saw it, my initial reaction was, "That's it?" It felt like it was an hour long and I kept thinking there was going to be a huge scene at the end. Well, after I got some distance from it, I watched it with fresh eyes and it slowly unfolded its secrets, and yes, I was able to realize what the huge scene really was. I ended up loving the ending, even if it initially felt like a fairly shallow epilogue tacked onto the end.

[waynefung]

You're the only reviewer I know who gave opposite opinions about a movie but said insightful things about it in both.

[robertmarginean]

With the popularity of the Mission Impossible films and Top Gun Maverick it's easy to forget what an acclaimed dramatic actor Tom Cruise is, especially from thr late 80s all the way through the 90s he worked with a lot of fantastic directors