Secrets of a wife and a husband

Rating: Null/10 (3 February 2003)

One should conclude that this film was a kind of meditation from its director, Stanley Kubrick. Dialogues between Dr. William 'Bill' Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman) are extremely interesting for any couple. In a talk between both he asserted that he would not do anything with any other woman because he respects her, also because she is the mother of his daughter and he knows that she would not do either something wrong. She frankly told him that once she had an imagination of sex with another guy and that she did not do anything with him next day because the guy disappeared. This was the reason for Bill to find some new sexual emotions, probably to forget what his wife said about a sexual act that never happened and he imagined all time in his mind. One must admit that Kubrick had good imagination in the rest of the plot with some complications that brought back Bill to his family. The end of the film is also interesting when his wife concluded that the solution to all problems for both is to have more sex between them. The film has too many erotic scenes, a bit exaggerated in this aspect.