Must watch this esoteric film with eyes wide OPEN.

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2018)

In the film, Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise) is a married doctor in an upper class neighborhood in New York. When Dr. Bill finds out from his wife (at the time, his real-life wife, Nicole Kidman) that she's considered cheating on him, he embarks on a strange journey of encounters throughout the night that takes him to the decadent underworld of the rich and famous.
At a jazz club at closing, he meets an old friend from medical school, Nick. Now a jazz piano player, Nick tells him about a party he will be playing the piano for later, but he must play totally blind because of the debauchery that takes place there. All of the people wear long hooded cloaks with Venetian masks, so Cruise ends up renting out a similar costume and takes a taxi to a Hellfire mansion out in the country where Nick will be performing. Hellfire Clubs are meeting places of persons of high quality (politicians, Hollywood executives, etc) who want to take part in extremely immoral acts. Their activities included mock religious ceremonies, devil worship, and occult rituals.
The music in the movie changes drastically when Cruise arrives at the Hellfire mansion. Right after Cruise enters this mansion, the very odd song heard in the background is called "Backwards Priests" and features Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy played backward. The reversal or inversion of sacred objects is typical of black magic and satanic rituals. By having this Christian liturgy played backward right before widespread fornication, it's a way of stating that the "elite of the world" is nothing less than satanic!
Although none of this is actually mentioned in Eyes Wide Shut, the entire movie can be interpreted as one big "magick sex" journey, characterized by a back-and-forth between opposing forces: life and death - pleasure and pain - male and female - light and darkness! A great film that raises a lot of moral implications. A film one should watch with eyes wide OPEN!