"Open Eyes" is quite confusing. Kubrick invited Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as the starring men and women, using restricted sex scenes as the performance method.
On the surface, the movie reflects the relationship between marriage, love, and sex. His wife once accused Bill: After millions of years of change, men can only find holes everywhere, women just want to find safety and commitment.
Combining with the heroine's mental derailment, I thought that Kubrick wanted to express women's true sexual concepts and liberate women.
But otherwise, the setting of his wife's mental derailment is to promote the development of Bill's 24-hour eye-opening plot. Bill is a doctor, earns a lot of money, and has a 7 million dollar house. The prostitutes failed to pay the other party 150$. He can pay the other party 200$ more for the costumes in the middle of the night, and he can pay the driver 100$ more for the taxi. He is always a consumer all the way, buying the services of the bottom people. In front of the lower class, he also maintained the decency and dignity of the middle class, polite and demeanor.
But at the same time, he is also a service provider. He participated in the patron’s party, in fact, to provide medical services for the other party-the prostitute hired by the patron fell into a coma after taking drugs, and he went to solve it in case of causing death. It is not difficult to imagine how Bill's big house came from the familiar road.
Bill dressed in a costume to join a magical sea and sky feast, cult-like rituals, shocking images of gathering crowds, oil painting-like shots, and even surrealism.
Bill is not part of this sea and sky feast. It is no different from the evening party held by the patrons. The pianist provides services with blindfolded eyes, and Bill provides medical help to the patrons at any time. The only difference is that it is masked.
Kubrick showed us a part of the world-about how a group of wealthy, powerful, and high-ranking people in the United States at the end of the century used us other people, such as commodities that can be thrown away, and used them to cover up their crimes.
Bill may be treated with superficial politeness to the bottom people, but celebrities completely regard people as prostitutes (former beauty pageant champions) or servants (Doctor Bill). They are all commodities that can be bought and discarded.
In contrast, Bill failed to recruit prostitutes, and celebrities turned beauty pageant champions into prostitutes to mate wildly. The blindfolded pianist doesn't even have the right to take a look. This is the real situation in a corner of the world.
Some time ago, Wang Sicong commented on Hanzang Forest, "I really don't blame Liu Yang."
To quote Pingyuan's son Shen Peng, this is the true face of most of the bourgeoisie and their true view of women. Those who "materialize women" have never had anything to do with ordinary people and low-level men. Those who materialize women are the group of wealthy people represented by Wang Sicong and the women who are willing to be their "playthings". Remember the whole network's pursuit of Wang Sicong a few years ago? Remember that "husband" sound? They do not want women to have an independent personality, a sense of equality, and self-seeking. What they hope is that women will completely become a kind of exquisite plaything, a tool for venting, and a pet to accompany, so as to realize the possession of women's body and spirit, and in their decadent, depraved and extravagant circle of wealthy people, they will possess beautiful women. It is also a means to show off wealth and prove one's power. Engels said: "Public wife system is a phenomenon unique to bourgeois society. The current prostitution is a full expression of this public wife system. Prostitution is based on private ownership, and it will disappear with the disappearance of private ownership. Therefore, Communist organizations do not practice public wives. On the contrary, they want to eliminate public wives." Money does not necessarily mean high taste and noble morals. On the contrary, rich are more prone to moral corruption and male theft and prostitution. It's not that all rich people are morally corrupt, shameless, and prostitution. I mean that the lifestyle and social culture of the bourgeoisie will inevitably lead them to the path of moral corruption, shame, and prostitution. In addition to satisfying desires, they pursue excitement, and There is no more important thing to do. Over time, satisfying desires and pursuing excitement have become the most important things in their lives. Then, it is only natural for a bourgeoisie to become absurd, mean and shameless.
As a middle-class Doctor Bill, he can't get up and down, can't get the tickets for celebrity gatherings, and is bound by his inner morality when he recruits prostitution. He is both a consumer and a commodity. In the end, he could only close his eyes and forget everything beyond his ability, and have a long-awaited fuck with his wife.
Kubrick is not only concerned about individuals, he is more concerned about groups, society, civilization and history.
As Kubrick's posthumous work, "Open Eyes Ring" points the finger at the social class and presents certain rules of social operation. This is why Kubrick is so cold and outlier.
The former beauty pageant who saved Bill is itself a complete tragedy. This is the great masterpiece Kushen left to the world. Unfortunately, Kushen's posthumous work is a completely cold world. Many people classify Kubrick as a "cold-blooded social Darwinist," but although Kubrick often throws out reality cruelly, he has never participated in the evaluation to place himself on the moral side.
Wouldn't it be better if he photographed the "Pinocchio" that embodies the warmth of his heart?
"It tells the tortuous journey of people from imperfection to perfection, from unhappiness to happiness."
Hope and despair are always two-sided, and go hand in hand.
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