everyone seems to have forgotten... (might be spoiling)

Rating: Null/10 (20 June 2004)

the film Eyes Wide Shut is so aesthetically pleasing, and i refer not to just the sex etc. but also the colors and music, that i sense that everyone becomes entranced and swallowed in the "film" of it. i believe the meaning of the movie is lost to so many because of one important thing: they haven't read the novel it's based on.
Eyes Wide Shut was so true to the novel! the only changes were, of course, the time, place, and ending. because in the novel there is no clean-cut ending - and here's the point that's missed by many: it was written as a sort of experience of Freudian theory. it truly is like a foreign language, or rather, a different dialect of the language we already speak; i'm entranced by the sounds and shapes of the words and i have a slight understanding of what they mean, and i want to know more, and i know i could figure it out if i just read the damn handbook...
So i think the things i read in magazines etc. calling the movie just Kubrick's self-gratification and the playing out of his fantasy world are incorrect, except perhaps the colors and specific faces and voices; because it's really just an adaptation. and a beautiful one. i think without having read DreamNovel by Arthur Schnitzler and a few of Schniztler's other novels, i would have a much fainter appreciation for the film...