Keep Your Eyes Wide Shut

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2012)

Stanley Kubrick was a genius filmmaker who knew how to master the art of storytelling in such aesthetic and mysterious proportions which he kept doing in all of his unforgettable films. Eyes Wide Shut sheds light on Bill Harford, a doctor living happily with his wife Alice and their seven-year-old daughter Helena. The night Alice talks about her sexual fantasy with another man sets Bill on a strange journey of jealousy and lust throughout New York City where he learns from his old friend Nick about an underground cult where men and women engage in sexual rituals. The orgy's atmosphere looks intimidating and gloomy especially when Bill finds himself in danger for infiltrating into the mansion until a masked woman sacrifices herself so no harm will come to him. Bill's unusual experience on that particular night haunt him after being warned by the Master of Ceremonies not to tell a soul about the orgy or he and his family will suffer severe consequences. Tom Cruise was fantastic as Bill Harford, his acting was sublime and natural and even though I dislike Nicole Kidman she was good in some parts. Eyes Wide Shut is a unique sexual thriller and a masterpiece.