For those about to be unsure

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2003)

This film is an ingenious scenery into couple relationships and sexuality. I can't imagine another movie that has handled these themes quite this honestly, bluntly and devastatingly and also beautifully as Mr Kubricks last film.
The themes that are approached are numerous but yet strangely coherent as they all combine to the basic element of the movie: sexuality. Jealousy, love, lust, possessiviness, faith - Kubrick shows all these emotions in their real complexity ripped from the ideals of one true love and such myths that are kept as sacred in these times.
Why feel jealousy? What does it take away when you betray someone; Whether it is physical or even emotional, why do people generally feel possessive about their loved ones? And what is love and what is passion, lust or so forth?
Eyes wide shut is directed very carefully. As Kubrick's other films, it's very subtle and there is very little pinpointing to the answers of the moral dilemmas. But, this is also the beauty of the film - one is forced to think for yourself. And to think these things: how many times have you craved for someone else than your partner? Is it worse than actually doing it just to wish for it? And your partner, what does she/he dream of?
It may be difficult to understand the movie if you have never lived in a relationship and had to deal with expectations in a normal relationship. Maybe you need something more, too: you have to be a bit unsure if the current norms of the western society in marital or comparable relationships are just what a man or a woman needs.
In conclusion, this film is definately worth seeing. You don't have to even like it, it is still good