Eyes wide open to our feelings reality.

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 1999)

Don't close your eyes to this motion picture. Eyes Wide Shut really deserves your attention, as the Academy Awards'. Not because this is the last production by director Stanley Kubrick, but due to the fact that Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey) really did a great motion picture. Eyes Wide Shut is a movie that explores the psychological roots of the human feelings, concerning a very delicate subject, which is the treason. The eroticism present in the movie is not gratuitous. There is a purpose to be there and the purpose is to make us think about many things that surround our lives: from the prostitute contaminated with AIDS to the man who uses his own daughter to gain money, the movie constantly gives us something to think about. And there is a lot of time to think since the movie is very long, sometimes tedious. But nothing that we can not tolerate. Moreover, Kubrick presents a natural vision from one of the biggest myths of the human kind: the sex. In Eyes Wide Shut the sexuality is treated with extremely naturalness.
It seems that Kubrick's last piece of art have great chances to receive some nominations for the next Academy Awards and succeed in some categories: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman acted extremely well, so were the supporting performances, the art direction and costume design are superb, the soundtrack is excellent, collecting some great musics that fit perfectly in the screen, following the story according to the movie plot; not to mention, of course, the direction. So, keep your eyes wide open.