Flaccid Little Man

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2016)

After completing Stanley Kubrick's last masterpiece I feel compelled to give some sort of explanation of what I had just witnessed after I partook of this mind blowing journey. First we follow a man named Bill (Tom Cruz), and from the very get go we quickly pick up on his inability to perform and throughout his journey his sexual escapades turn out to be one miss after another. His wife even mocks him at one point and tells him that he is blind and cant see the development of a sexual human (both male and female) has made over the course of millions of years of evolution. Bill is comfortable not knowing what he is capable of and when His Wife (Nicole Kidman) tells Bill that she could have had an affair with a military man in the past, and in fact in her mind did have the affair the disbelief was too much for Bill to handle. His Journey he made was one for self discovery and every person he encountered within a single night were all near misses for him. At one point a bully bumped into him and called Bill a name, reminding Bill of the wall that he lives behind and is too afraid to come out from behind. He finally reaches the highest level of depravity and witnesses complete sexual freedom and even at that level he is still unable to perform, he can only witness what everyone can become and he still has to sit on the sidelines. I can go on forever with the many twists that Kubrick captured and the reference to the Secret Organization with the Orgy scene is really a minute part of the story, the deeper underlay of the story is how sometimes it is easier on life just living simply without the knowing of what the world is really like, it can be frustrating not being able to reach that level of performance but at the same time it can be your savior, like not getting HIV from one of his near misses who found out the very next day that she was diagnosed with. I highly recommend this film and I know that I may be a million miles off of the real meaning of this story but this is what I took away from it. Enjoy