Stanley Kubrick's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2001)

Stanley Kubrick's all time best. the film about two peoples lives in jealously of each other's sexual fantasies and journeys. In the movie Dr. Bill Harford played by Tom Cruise is marrried Alice played by Nicole Kidman. Their is a scene were Alice gets stoned on pot and tells Bill that when they were on vacation she had sex with a naval officer. Bill is shocked and is quiet the phone than rings, he leaves the apartment. that is the start of his sexual journey.
The Mask Ball. their is a scene were Bill goes to estate outside New York he gets a password and the address from his friend Nick Nightingale he is playing the plano at the sonata cafe where Bill meets him he is also play the plano that the Mask Ball. Bill than goes to the estate and gives the the password to two men outside the house. He than enters the house and sees what looks like some kind of sexual ritual in front of several onlookers. that was a masterpiece at work. Bill is an approached by a women that warns him to leave he does not. Bill than goes through several rooms where sex acts are taking place in front of several onlookers those acts can't actually be seen but in the unedited orgy scene which I have seen you can see it. Bill does not belong their the people in the Mask Ball soon find out and is warned that if he said any thing about what he saw some thing bad would happen. what I like about this scene is that Kubrick did not just put sex he made it into art like that sexual ritual,A Mask Bill and the fact that only some people where allowed with the password "Fidelio." Bill journey was just getting started. Bill does not tell his wife about that he had seen or were he had been because of what the people at the Mask Ball said. He wonders the streets and goes back to the estate and is warned again to stop what he was doing. He wonders the streets again and sees that he is being followed he later finds out that one of his close friends that he did not know was at the orgy had him followed. His friend said it was for is own good. He is later force to tell is wife about what happened because his wife finds the mask that he wore to the orgy. Kubrick made sex and nudity into art. He is to me the greatest film maker of all time he proves that he is the best in this film that he directed.
By Carlos D. Montemayor