Mysterious Kubrick film

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2005)

Eyes Wide Shut is a strange movie, even for Kubrick. Mysterious. Absolutely nothing is explained and it's one big enigma. There is a strong element of sexual voyeurism as in the scene watching Nicole Kidman go to the bathroom and at the costume party/orgy with naked women and couples copulating in the shadows. Overall the film has a strong underlying current of sexual perversity mixed with conspiracy theory. Cruise sees things he's not supposed to see and he can't reveal them or something unnamed but bad will happen to him.
The plot: Tom Cruise wanders the streets after his wife Nicole Kidman confesses that she has had sexual fantasies about another man. After various encounters he ends up at a costume party/orgy in a mansion where all the guests, except him, seem to be in on some secret, almost as if they belonged to a cult of some sort. Stanley Pollack, a friend who seems to know the true identities of the masked party-goers, warns Cruise to keep his mouth shut about what he's seen at the party.
As for the acting, Cruise is in most every scene and he seems to sleepwalk through the film, but knowing Kubrick that's what he must have wanted. As is usual in Kubrick films, every character is unemotional and detached.
I honestly don't have any idea of what the film is about except it left me with an unpleasant feeling of dread.
I've seen all of Kubricks's movies many times and this is definitely his least accessible film.