Gripping, haunting and a bouquet to all your senses

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2003)

Eyes wide shut left me exhausted...it played with all my senses. The images of the masks, the christmas tree and the female nude haunted me long after. I quite liked the movie. And i really can't understand why most Kubrick fans seem to despise it. Okay, mebbe it's not as good as Dr. Strangelove and it really won't be good if you just went in to see it for the nudity factor. One has to look deeper. The husband -wife relationship, the overtones of jealousy, of the male ego, of vcitory. But i do think the second half could have been dealt with in a better fashion, it sumhow seems to end adruptly. In a strange way, it was like 'Mullholand drive'.