Eyes Wide Shut

Don't know why I keep getting sucked into this movie. It leaves me thinking about it a long time after each time I've watched it. Somebody will bring it up offhandedly, and I'll feel compelled to watch it.

Many people say it's the worst thing Kubrick did, or they feel it wasn't as good as it could've been, but I actually find myself liking it as much as anything else he had done.

Something about it that just sticks with you. 2001 stuck with me, but not in the same way that EWS did. 2001 impressed me as a visual wonder, but it didn't have the psychological effect that Eyes Wide Shut had.

I think Eyes Wide Shut enhances my obsession with the unknown, and the many rumors and conspiracies I've come across in this life. I feel many of it's outer themes are open to interpretation, much like 2001. But at it's core there is a look behind the curtain at the inner workings of people in power. It's like a peek into the Bohemian Grove or into the Rothschild mansion.

I'm not one to go screaming Illuminati, nor do I believe many of the conspiracy theories I read or hear about. I am deeply interested in it all though.