Eyes Wide Shut

[Rex]

It's on tv now. What's this movie supposed to be about? All I've gotten out of it so far is a lot of TNA [no complaints]. But if there is no point to the movie, then its just another soft core porno. Can anyone explain it to me?

 

[bondgirl2217]

it is an O.K. movie, but it would be better if it only was made up of the sexual scenes.. as a plot there is nothing.. it hangs over nothing most of the movie. to gain intrest it should have spun a different way.. plus it was too long.!

 

[toga22]

That movie, seriously freaked me out. A mixture between that main leader guy...and the music....Chilling and STRANGE!! The ending to that movie was the worst though.....Never made sense to me....

 

[barcoded]

The film is about a couple freeing themselves from repression and discovering whether their relationship can survive a regeneration of sexual desire on both a spiritual and physical level. Kubrick based the film on Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, a novella of sexual psychoanalysis of a married couple. Schnitzler was good friends with Freud and came out of the same cultural milieu.

I liked the film. Although I don't think that Kubrick (unlike Greenaway) had the sensual ability to create a deeply sexual film, and I really don't understand why they had to set the film in contemporary New York as opposed to fin-de-siècle Vienna, he did a reasonably decent job of presenting of some sort of sexual tension on the screen. It was OK. I haven't read the book, but I'm sure it's a lot better than the movie.

later............