Did you know Eyes Wide Shut holds the Guinness Book of World Records...record for movie longest in continuous production? Well, it does. Did Kubrick die or something before it was completed because there sure are a lot of loose ends left hanging, huh? Yes, like, viz:
-What happened to Nick? Bruise-on-his-face, left-with-two-big-guys Nick. Are we to believe that Jewish guy's explanation that he's probably already in Seattle banging Mrs. Nick? Don't make us laugh.
-What was with the almost-not-quite hooker, the one in the apartment? That was not the same girl as the one who passed out at the party. The one who passed out at the party was the one in the morgue. So why did Kubrick have the apartment hooker getting HIV? What was the point of that?
-What was with the party hooker/morgue girl? Are we to believe the Jewish guy's explanation there too that it was just a coincidence that she ended up dead a day after sacrificing herself for Tom Cruise? Wait...wait...wait. Maybe that's a different girl.
You have the girl who passed out from a drug overdose in...What was the Jewish guy's name?...Ziegler's upstairs.
You have the hooker who warned Tom Cruise and then sacrificed herself for him, who knew him.
You have the hooker in the morgue--she's the same one as the girl who passed out because Ziegler referred to her as the girl with the "big tits."
You have the hooker in the apartment.
All right, let's do this:
Scene 1: Hooker with big tits passes out. That happens when Cruise is at the party with Nicole Kidman.
Scene 2: Next night, Cruise almost hooks up with the hooker in the apartment.
Scene 3. Cruise goes to the satanic orgy with the keyboard and synthesizer--That is sooo not true to life--and the orgy hooker recognizes him and warns him.
Scene 4: Orgy hooker sacrifices self for Cruise.
Scene 5: Apartment-hooker has HIV. So she's still alive.
Scene 6: Cruise reads about hooker's death.
Scene 7: Ziegler says the orgy hooker is the same as the dead hooker.
So we have two, not three or four, hookers of interest: (1) Passes out/Recognize Cruise/Warns Cruise/Dead hooker. (2) Apartment hooker.
Okay, that is impossible. Kubrick totally botches that. It's impossible because (1) The hooker who passed out barely opened her eyes when Cruise revived her and yet, (2) The next night she has sufficiently recovered to be the orgy hooker and (3) Immediately recognizes Cruise, who is in full face mask costume, and whose bare face she barely saw, if at all, the previous night when Cruise revived her.
I was hoping for three hookers, one girl as all three because that would have leant religious significance, three in one, the Trinity, to the movie. It would have fit with sacrifice, death, especially dying for someone else, someone else's sins too. But NOOO.
-The dead guy's daughter's kiss scene. Was that another cul-de-sac? I thought she was going to turn out to be the girl who warned Cruise. We never heard or saw her again if that's the case. Just another temptation?
-The threatening letter the guy at the mansion hands Cruise when Cruise goes back to the mansion.
-Ziegler's goon who was following Cruise. Could the guy have been any more obvious? He was like a stalker. I thought he had a gun under his trench-coat. Or had an erection and was going to flash somebody. I think if you're following somebody surreptitiously you should be surreptitious about it. I think that's in the rules.
-"It was all a charade." That's what Ziegler says. What was all a charade? Which was what Cruise asked, too. The girl in the morgue wasn't a charade, as Cruise says. Was she? How about the threatening letter the guy at the mansion hands Cruise when Cruise goes back to the mansion--charade too?
Was the whole movie, Kubrick's plot, a charade? Was all of "it" somebody else's dream, like Kubrick's or the novel author's?
The whole movie is sort of one big "edging" thing, no climax. It's disjointed, like a dream; there are cul-de-sac's, like a dream. It is not real, like a dream is not real. When you wake up.
I don't know. Unless it was intended to be a dream Kubrick spent record time producing a movie that ended unproduced.
-What happened to Nick? Bruise-on-his-face, left-with-two-big-guys Nick. Are we to believe that Jewish guy's explanation that he's probably already in Seattle banging Mrs. Nick? Don't make us laugh.
-What was with the almost-not-quite hooker, the one in the apartment? That was not the same girl as the one who passed out at the party. The one who passed out at the party was the one in the morgue. So why did Kubrick have the apartment hooker getting HIV? What was the point of that?
-What was with the party hooker/morgue girl? Are we to believe the Jewish guy's explanation there too that it was just a coincidence that she ended up dead a day after sacrificing herself for Tom Cruise? Wait...wait...wait. Maybe that's a different girl.
You have the girl who passed out from a drug overdose in...What was the Jewish guy's name?...Ziegler's upstairs.
You have the hooker who warned Tom Cruise and then sacrificed herself for him, who knew him.
You have the hooker in the morgue--she's the same one as the girl who passed out because Ziegler referred to her as the girl with the "big tits."
You have the hooker in the apartment.
All right, let's do this:
Scene 1: Hooker with big tits passes out. That happens when Cruise is at the party with Nicole Kidman.
Scene 2: Next night, Cruise almost hooks up with the hooker in the apartment.
Scene 3. Cruise goes to the satanic orgy with the keyboard and synthesizer--That is sooo not true to life--and the orgy hooker recognizes him and warns him.
Scene 4: Orgy hooker sacrifices self for Cruise.
Scene 5: Apartment-hooker has HIV. So she's still alive.
Scene 6: Cruise reads about hooker's death.
Scene 7: Ziegler says the orgy hooker is the same as the dead hooker.
So we have two, not three or four, hookers of interest: (1) Passes out/Recognize Cruise/Warns Cruise/Dead hooker. (2) Apartment hooker.
Okay, that is impossible. Kubrick totally botches that. It's impossible because (1) The hooker who passed out barely opened her eyes when Cruise revived her and yet, (2) The next night she has sufficiently recovered to be the orgy hooker and (3) Immediately recognizes Cruise, who is in full face mask costume, and whose bare face she barely saw, if at all, the previous night when Cruise revived her.
I was hoping for three hookers, one girl as all three because that would have leant religious significance, three in one, the Trinity, to the movie. It would have fit with sacrifice, death, especially dying for someone else, someone else's sins too. But NOOO.
-The dead guy's daughter's kiss scene. Was that another cul-de-sac? I thought she was going to turn out to be the girl who warned Cruise. We never heard or saw her again if that's the case. Just another temptation?
-The threatening letter the guy at the mansion hands Cruise when Cruise goes back to the mansion.
-Ziegler's goon who was following Cruise. Could the guy have been any more obvious? He was like a stalker. I thought he had a gun under his trench-coat. Or had an erection and was going to flash somebody. I think if you're following somebody surreptitiously you should be surreptitious about it. I think that's in the rules.
-"It was all a charade." That's what Ziegler says. What was all a charade? Which was what Cruise asked, too. The girl in the morgue wasn't a charade, as Cruise says. Was she? How about the threatening letter the guy at the mansion hands Cruise when Cruise goes back to the mansion--charade too?
Was the whole movie, Kubrick's plot, a charade? Was all of "it" somebody else's dream, like Kubrick's or the novel author's?
The whole movie is sort of one big "edging" thing, no climax. It's disjointed, like a dream; there are cul-de-sac's, like a dream. It is not real, like a dream is not real. When you wake up.
I don't know. Unless it was intended to be a dream Kubrick spent record time producing a movie that ended unproduced.
