"Open Eyes" is a model marriage that suddenly exposes its wounds, and then enters an adventure. Perhaps it is to push away the surface of the crisis and simply enter the abyss of human nature, in anticipation of the complete solution of the potential crisis. Only by facing the crisis, the crisis can be solved easily, otherwise the crisis will always exist. The shocking confession of the wives in the movie certainly opened the wound on their perfect marriage, but it drove both parties to introspect their marriage. The adventures of the husband in the movie make people always fear the end of a perfect marriage. Because facing the end of a crisis is more likely to collapse than to resolve the crisis. The film just shows that maintaining a marriage requires not only the courage to face the crisis, but also the ability and luck to survive the crisis.
Eyes Wide Shut evaluation action
2021-10-20 17:21
Extended Reading
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Melisa 2022-03-25 09:01:05
[Screening of Kubrick Exhibition at China Film Archive] Watch it for the second time. The color is still Kubrick's gorgeous. Even the reflections of street cars are so beautiful. As a movie with erotic, suspenseful, and ethical elements, it is excellent in all aspects. The atmosphere of suspense is full, and the male protagonist’s sense of powerlessness is obvious; the sexual scenes are not concealed, revealing but not obscene; the display of the hypocrisy in the relationship between husband and wife is straightforward and vivid. Nicole Kidman played too well
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Floy 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Rewatch. It's a movie that requires full dedication to get the highest experience. When the audience completely substitutes themselves into the male protagonist, they can deeply appreciate his hypocrisy. Facing the superiority of the lower class and the sense of morality brought by charity, he is obsessed with the pride of his middle-class status and being broken Fear and helplessness after fantasy. When he tried to enter a higher class, he was mercilessly ejected and at the same time in greater danger. After opening your eyes, you need to go back to "Eyes wide shut". At the same time, Kushen also mercilessly ridiculed the so-called upper class: it was just one group sex party after another dressed in a seemingly sacred religious cloak.
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Red Cloak: [pleasantly] Please, step forwards. May I have the password?
Dr. Bill Harford: Fidelio.
Red Cloak: That's right, sir! That is the password... for admittance. But may I ask, what is the password... for the house?
Dr. Bill Harford: The password for the house?
Red Cloak: Yes?
Dr. Bill Harford: I'm sorry... I seem to... have forgotten it.
Red Cloak: That's unfortunate! Because here, it makes no difference whether you have forgotten it... or if you never knew it. Kindly remove your mask.
[Bill slowly removes his mask. The red cloaked cult leader continues talking in a pleasant tone]
Red Cloak: Now, get undressed.
Dr. Bill Harford: [nervously] Get... undressed?
Red Cloak: [sternly] Remove your clothes.
Dr. Bill Harford: Uh... gentlemen, please...
Red Cloak: Remove your clothes! Or would you like us to do it for you?
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Victor Ziegler: Bill... What the hell did you think you were doing there? I couldn't... I couldn't even begin to imagine how you'd even heard about it, let alone got yourself through the front door. And then I remembered seeing you talking with that prick piano player, Nick... or whatever the fuck his name was, at my party the other night. And it didn't take much to figure out the rest.
Dr. Bill Harford: It wasn't Nick's fault. It was mine.
Victor Ziegler: Of course it was Nick's fault! If he hadn't mentioned this to you in the first place, none of this would have happened. I recommended that little cocksucker to those people, and now he's made me look like a complete asshole by telling you about it!
Dr. Bill Harford: [humbly] Victor... what can I say? I had absolutely no idea you were involved in any way.
Victor Ziegler: I know you didn't, Bill. But I also know that you went to Nick's hotel this morning and spoke with the desk clerk.
Dr. Bill Harford: How did you know that?
Victor Ziegler: Because I had you followed.
Dr. Bill Harford: You... you had me followed?
Victor Ziegler: Now Bill, I don't want you to get the wrong idea. I had you followed. I apologize for that. But it was for your own good. I know you went to Nick's hotel looking for him and I know what the desk clerk told you. But what the desk clerk didn't tell you was that all they did was drive Nick to the airport and put him on a plane back to Seattle. I assure you that Nick is safely back home and he's probably banging Mrs. Nick as we speak.
Dr. Bill Harford: The desk clerk said that Nick has a bruise on his face. That he looked frightened as if he was beaten up.
Victor Ziegler: Yeah? Okay, so Nick had a bruise. But that's the least he deserved for telling you about the gathering last night.