It may have been some pioneering masterpiece of its time, "best movie of the 90's" they say.. but for me the dialogue often felt forced, over-dramatized and needlessly drawn out. I'm sure even the actors themselves would've had a tough time adjusting to the expected rate for scripts to be read whilst the same three or four ominous keys played on the piano over and over again "to build tension, suspense and unease". Well the year is 2023 now and frankly all these ideas have been milked more than a dozen times before i've actually seen this one and now whatever it was once considered cutting edge for seems cheesy and over-done.
Eyes Wide Shut does however succeed in being one of the only films to have pointed the spotlight at the illuminate and their secret parties without going into much length as to what they do other than harmless orgies with weird music and satanic style rituals. So it falls short on revealing the depth of truth potentially available there. The Stone Cutters episode of the Simpsons said about as much as this movie did. That being said, i'm sure there's a directors cut floating around somewhere, which could be the reason Kubrick died around the time of this movie?
Mystery, suspense, oo, aa.
Eyes Wide Shut does however succeed in being one of the only films to have pointed the spotlight at the illuminate and their secret parties without going into much length as to what they do other than harmless orgies with weird music and satanic style rituals. So it falls short on revealing the depth of truth potentially available there. The Stone Cutters episode of the Simpsons said about as much as this movie did. That being said, i'm sure there's a directors cut floating around somewhere, which could be the reason Kubrick died around the time of this movie?
Mystery, suspense, oo, aa.
