Open your eyes to this masterpiece!

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2008)

The last film directed by Stanley Kubrick, EYES WIDE SHUT, is a masterpiece, or by other words, a magnificent way for a director to finish is career. This film is too straight to follow, but at the same time very complex, because it's a deep reflection about a couple's relationship and intimacy. It's about love, jealous, matrimony, loyalty, and adventures outside matrimony, whether "they are real or in dreams"
The viewer watches the plot through Dr. William Harford's mind (played by Tom Cruise) and we feel his fears, his tension, his insurance about his matrimony and the loyalty of his wife. We can feel the tension growing and how lost he is! His wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), is also lost and confused, but she's controlling the game, to the point of testing him, telling him an affair she once had with a sailor man But did it really happen, or is she just telling her sexual fantasy to instigate him, to make him jealous? I think the end answers that!
Aside from their relationship, this movie is also great for many other reasons! It's mysterious, suspenseful, odd and mystical! The scene where occurs that weird and mysterious party is amazing, because it creates a magnificent ambiance of seduction and mystery, but also obscurity and weirdness. No one knows who is who, behind those creepy and sinister masks, what increases the mystery. The ceremony scene is simply astonishing. Together, the music, the voices, the masks, the women, and the ritual it self create this bizarre and mystical ambiance, that is so seductive at the same time. It's one of my favourite's scenes ever I must say! From all types of cinema, from all movies I ever saw!
The acting is great, especially by Tom Cruise, which does one of the best roles of his long and succeeded career. His character is quite lost, scared and confused and he plays it very well. Nicole Kidman also does a good job, playing his tempting wife.
The soundtrack is amazing! I know it's not an original OST, since it's a very well known classical piece, but it's just brilliant, providing suspense and tension to the film.
This movie is a masterpiece, and it resumes it all!