Revealing journey...

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2011)

1st watched 8/7/2011 – 8 out of 10(Dir-Stanley Kubrick): Revealing journey about what women and men go thru when dealing with sexual infidelity whether it be real or imaginary when couples are married. This last movie by Stanley Kubrick is not perfect, but makes you think while it takes you through one couple's warped experiences after the wife reveals that she was thinking about being with another man sexually during a very important point in their relationship(the couple's engagement). The man, played by Tom Cruise, then has a night where he encounters a prostitute and then a weird sexual cult. He never is unfaithful – just as the wife isn't – but these occurrences in many cases would still split couples up eventually. The deception that Cruise's character has to go through is almost a bigger sin then his encounters and the wife, played by Nicole Kidman brilliantly in a unique part for her, kind of pays for her blatant honesty. The pacing is definitely Kubrick-like(slow and methodical) and not for everyone, and some of the scenes don't make sense -- but overall this is a compelling probe into human sexual existence and how male and females play with it – almost to our own destruction.