Movie: Eyes Wide Shut

Interpretation:
Can sex be complex? Can it be something that we regret, something we wished we never did? Now what if the one you love the most tells you that they wished they werebin bed with someone else and how they wished the other person's body was touching theirs?

Eyes wide shut deals with such a sitution. Dr William"Bill" Harford(Tom Cruise) is happily married to Alice Harford(Nicole Kidman). One night during a party a Lothario hits on Alice and they share a dance, while William is entertained by two models. The next night Alice out of curiosity ask Bill weather he was jealous of her dancing with an other person. On him saying no she reveals her most erotic fantacy to him, wherein she wished she was in bed with some stranger she laid eyes on during a trip with Bill. What follows is a night of sexual urges for Bill.This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient's daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, he quickly learns he is in well over his head and finds he and his family are threatened.

Tom Cruise as Dr William Harvar a.k.a Bill, is simply magnificient. He deals his complex character with panache.

Kubrick presents sex and nudity in a manner that is more disturbing than erotic. The underlying current of uncertainty and danger lends an unsettled aura to the most explicit scenes. The first time we see a nude woman, she is lying sprawled in a chair, having overdosed on drugs. Later, when Bill and Alice are engaging in foreplay, she is clearly abstracted. And, during the soon-to-be infamous orgy sequence, all of the participants are masked and many are wearing sinister costumes that consist of hooded, black capes and tuxedos. This entire portion of the film has a gothic feel to it.

The music in Eyes Wide Shut is singularly effective. In fact, this may represent the best use of a soundtrack in any of Kubrick's films. Jocelyn Pook's compositions re-enforce the tone of every scene in which they are employed. And, while several of the pieces used here are lush, orchestral numbers, those that create the strongest impression are the simple, discordant ones designed for the piano. As John Carpenter proved in Halloween, complexity is not always necessary to set the proper mood.

For those who are pure movie lovers this movie is a must for you. Put on your thinking caps and watch this movie as it will not let you down.

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