Eyes Wide Shut isn't about explicit sex. It's about complacency and repression. It's about the mantle of comfort and security that family life provides and how that mantle can become encrusted with complacent attitudes. It's about repressed sexual desires that live within us. It's about revealing those desires and the devastating effects they can have.
Dialogue sequences drift and sway.
They start as one thing, and then they become something else entirely. Because this movie is rhythmically so different from usual Hollywood productions, I'm guessing it will totally perplex many moviegoers. But for those people willing to be patient and let the movie weave its hypnotic-like spell, the effect can be intoxicating. I only fault the movie for the clumsy plot developments during the orgy sequence. These developments don't make one whit of sense.