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Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2000)

Most of the time I start my reviews with the name of the movie... well, I'm not going to write it as the very first sentence in here, but please, allow me to talk about it before anything else. The name "Eyes Wide Shut" could be interpreted in a lot (and I mean a *LOT*) of ways, I do not think it should be appropriate to write my personal opinion about this matter.
You know what? I will go straight to the point. People who are not smart could not have liked this movie. The thing is, as one of my friends said, "it's a psychological masterpiece", and intelligence is an important factor to understand this film. As other of my friends said, "Some people either understood the movie, or they didn't understand anything at all", and I agree. You can't be just thinking like "I did not got that part very well...", either you understood, or you did not.
It seems like only a small minority understood this film. Of course, not everybody who could assimilate it was supposed to like it, but most of these viewers, yes. It could be said that the first hour is a bit slow, and maybe even the word "boring" could come up when talking about the subject. When the movie starts to focus on Tom Cruise's character, there is the real stuff, that is what we all paid to watch.
Something that annoys me is the fact that I do not feel like expressing my personal opinion about this movie.
I just don't think somebody who saw it and did not understand it, could read some of the reviews made, and just get an idea, and make their on conclusion, and think that they now know everything about the film.
The movie was strange, that is, of course, undeniably. It was pretty under rated, but that was, of course, due to all the people who watched it and at the end did not have a clue about what they just had seen. They were just paying attention to the "sexual" part of the movie, which a mistake if you just want to see "nude scenes".
You should try to imagine yourself in the position of Cruise's character, and then, only then, you could get an idea of how would it feel, and you might understand the whole deal, and even the purpose of the film.
Another thing that should be understood to assimilate the idea of the whole film, is Nicole Kidman's character. By the way, now that I mention her... I think her performance could have been a bit better. All the conversations where Kidman is involved are important pieces that could help somebody understand that film.
After watching this film, I am now obsessed with this one word, a word that contains 4 letter, F, U, C and K. This word is mentioned more than just a couple of times in this film, that caught my attention. From some points of view, and in some aspects, the whole film tried to focus on that word. The film's ending was a surprise, and to be honest, I knew that Kidman's last word was going to be that one. I do not know if it's really that predictable, but I figured that out easily.
This film might cause some damage to people who did not understand it and tried to get a "message" out if it, because they could get a very wrong message.
I'm rating the movie with a 10 out of 10 score, great film, enough said.