Like a stag party

Rating: 5/10 (12 May 2017)

Having recently re-watched "Eyes wide shut" I find it strikingly juvenile. Like a stag party. The producers writing credit name that the film is "inspired by the novel by Arthur Schnitzler " implicitly "Traumnovelle / Dream Story" from 1926. Given the temporal update, the film's script closely follows Arthur Schnitzler's text. On the other hand, "Eyes Wide Shut" is also inspired by Wolfgang Glück's film "Traumnovelle" from 1969. How on earth did the Kubrick come up with the idea of recruiting T.C. for the lead? And did he ever feel he made the right choice? Tom Cruise does what he does. Millins of fans is proof of that. But to involve him in a delicate story by Arthur Schnitzler? One morning William wakes up to find that his life has changed. He tries to fall back asleep, thinking that it is a dream, but to no avail. He tries taking a shower to wash the "dream" off him, but finds it doesn't work, when his wife Alice walks into the bathroom, and screams, he explains to her that the man in front of the mirror is him.