They will revoke my cinephile card for this: Eyes Wide Shut was one of the most boring films I've seen in a long time. Sure, it's great to look at. But its scattered assortment of ideas don't quite come together to tell a coherent story that gets its message across. Dreamlike vibes can't sustain a film that's over two and a half hours long by themselves.
Many reviews frame Eyes Wide Shut as a 'sexually provocative' film, which is to say there is a lot of sexualisation of the female form on display here. Fans will insist this is Kubrick's statement on women being objectified, though I remain unconvinced.
That said, I have read some great analysis, such as drawing parallels between the film's subject matter and the MeToo movement, reading it as a condemnation of the elite's use of women for sex and personal pleasure.
However, to me it is more of what the viewers got from the film than what it was trying to say in the first place (which is the point of art, I suppose). Like many Kubrick films, people are quick to over-analyze every shot until you're no longer sure if this is a case of reading too deeply into it or something the director intentionally alluded to.
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