Beautiful!!

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2001)

I don't usually review movies but this is in spite of the many bad reviews the IMDB community has given it!!
NOTE: IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE, DON'T READ THIS. GO WATCH IT!!
First off, for the people that cry about the unrealistic nature of the movie...its not supposed to be real!! It's an elegant fantasy world, a movie! The emotions that drive Dr. Bill are central to the movie, not his neighborhood!
The movie from start to finish is making a comment on love, fidelity, trust and communication. Dr. Bill's misadventures are completely driven by the misplaced distrust between Alice and Him and their inability to communicate their emotions without being stoned.
The first half of the movie starts with Alice's fantasy from last year's summer vacation. She joyfully tells the story as if she'd wish she'd acted on it. Bill, obviously acting on more issues than just the fantasy roams the streets of the fantasy city looking to score. In parallel to the fact that Alice didn't acutally cheat on him, he, twice is stopped, not entirely of his own volition, from cheating on her.
The second half of the movie mirrors the first half...starting with the scene where Alice tells Bill of her dream. Though similar to the fantasy she confessed the night before, she is absolutely miserable about the dream. The repercussions of Bill's actions are just as trying. They're falling apart, feeling the mal-results of the flaws in their marriage!!
Finally Bill's issues become too much to handle alone and the couple begins to do the right thing...he confesses everything and they talk it out. The whole movie was about the effects of distrust and infidelity (or near infidelity) on love and marriage. One of Nicole Kidman's last lines commented on it perfectly: "I am [sure] that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole life time, can never be the whole truth."
Eyes Wide Shut succeeds in making a somewhat hidden point about love AND as an entertainingly bizarre dream of a movie.