Kubrick's All Time Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2001)

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Eyes Wide Shut is Stanley Kubrick's all time best it is brilliant and unforgettable and it's a piece of film history. Some people have sad that this movie was boring, and that it does have a point but, it does have a point it tells a story of two peoples lives in jealously of each other's sexual fantasies and journeys. In the movie Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) is Married to Alice (Nicole Kidman) in real life when this was filmed they were married, In the film they acted like a real life married couple has well because it is not always perfect with jealously on there mind all the time it is true to most married couples. The films first scene of jealously is when Alice gets stoned on pot she tells Bill that when on vacation she had sex with a navel officer. Bill is then shocked and is quiet, the phone then rings, he leaves the apartment. That is just the start of Bill sexual journey of revenge for what is wife did.
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The Mask Ball. The scene of the Mask Ball was some of Stanley Kubrick's best filming ever he made art without being so pornographic movies like Spike Lee's Summer of Sam. So read this if you want to know how a piece of film history was directed.
Their is a scene were Bill goes to estate outside New York. He gets the password to go into the estate from his friend Nick Nightingale he had previously seen him that the Sonata Cafe that is where he got the password from him. Bill than goes to the estate with the password, he than gives the password "Fidelio" to two men outside the house, he than enters the house. "The Mask Ball" when he enters the house he sees what looks like some kind of sexual ritual that is taking place in front of several onlookers. Bill is than approached by a women that warns him to leave he does not. Bill than goes through several rooms where sex acts are taking place in front of several onlookers those acts can't actually be seen but in the unedited orgy scene which I have seen you can see them. Bill was warned that he did not belong their and the people find out and warn him that if he says thing about what he saw some thing bad would happen. At the Mask Ball they said one of my favorite quotes in the movie and that is "But I warn you...if you make any further inquiries...or if you say a single word to anyone...about what you have seen...there will be the most dire consequences for you...and your family." What I like about this scene is that Stanley Kubrick did not just put sex he made it into art like that sexual ritual, The mask ball, and the fact that only some people where allowed in with the password "Fidelio" it was not some open house sex party if you were thinking that.
Stanley Kubrick made sex and nudity into art that is not the first time Kubrick has made some thing into art in 1971 he made violence into art with A Clockwork Orange. He is to me the greatest filmmaker of all time and proves that he is the best in this film that he directed Eyes Wide Shut.
By Carlos D. Montemayor