Misunderstood

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2011)

I think Eyes Wide Shut is highly misunderstood. The movie is wrapped in symbolism, which I don't think a lot of people, looking to see a blockbuster with Tom and Nicole, really understood.
Eyes Wide Shut is about social status and the power that comes with it. The movie uses secret societies, paganism with the winter solstice to tell its story. Every prop, color that has been chosen, every human interaction is done deliberately by Krubrikc to tell the story, which is why he is a master at his art.
The Christmas Tree, the color purple and gold, animal print all represent fertility. Alice is resentful for her husbands social status and longs to be an animal that "fucks." The best thing about this movie is that it provokes more mysteries and questions than it feeds our curiosity. For example, when they are having the orgy we don't really get to focus too much on what's really going on and we always peer into to other rooms getting only a small taste of what's going on.
This movie is--like I said--about social status, human sexuality (we are only animals who our real purpose is to "fuck")and of course secret societies, which provokes the question: are we just living as pawns to feed the interest of the social elite's twisted games?
This movie is extremely deep, and at times, I wish it had more to satisfy my curiosity, but that was Krubrick's intention.