Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Eyes Wide Shut

It begins like this. A man discovers that certain liquids can be mixed together to produce pleasurable sensations to the tongue. The same man decides to purchase a variety of liquids in order to experiment further. This evening, that man who also happens to be Nipplelover my housemate from hell New York - has mixed Smirnoff, Snapple and Miranda redcolour into one smashing drink.

Armed with drinks, we begin watching Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise, a nude Nicole Kidman and the many many firm babylons of misc women.

NippleLover does not like Tom Cruise. He is unable to identify with Tom Cruise who usually plays chars with successful careers, lots of disposable income and get lucky with the opposite sex. In fact, I think he hates Tom Cruise. Obviously, Nipplelover has issues that need to be worked out.

Reasons why we are watching this movie:

Cowboy Caleb - It’s a Stanley Kubrick movie. I lurve all Kubrick movies.
NippleLover - This movie has many nipple scenes. That offsets Tom Cruise.

I thought this was an extremly complex movie. It deals with the issue of fidelity in a marriage. The wife (Kidman) gets high on pot one night and confesses to her husband about how she almost had an affair. This of course hurts his ego so badly and inflames his imagination to the point where he can’t stop imagining his wife having sex with a stranger that he goes out and tries to have an affair in revenge. Somehow he manages to stumble onto a secret sex party where the rich and powerful members of society don masks and rut like animals in orgies hidden behind spectacular mansions.

Although the ending was terribly disappointing (or rather I think there was no satisfactory ending), the movie is multi-layered. Details are hidden everywhere. Each time you watch it, you discover something you missed out before.

I rate it 4.5 out of 5 stars and recommend you rent it one night to watch with your partner (make sure no kids are around though, rampant nudity abound).

the sex party is a secret ritual of a sect… dang can’t remeber liow, but I think it got mentioned in the Da Vinci Code…

I do believe its Stanley Kubrick’s take on the Illuminati. A huge conspiracy theory if you will.

In any case, he died before he could complete the whole film, and conspirators smell a theory that the Illuminati want to keep his mouth shut…

go figure

It’s a very unerotic film extolling the importance of being faithful to your partner and the perils of participating in casual sex orgies.

The censors should rate it NC-16 and make all Sec 4s watch it.

First time I watched it, I thought it was rather boring. Maybe the 2 stars are too shiny and shimmering that I failed to notice the minor details. Anyway the version I watched was a watered down version, with shit like computer-generated people to hide the realistic action in the orgy scene.

I see nothing shocking in the end. Damn censorship. Hate them to the coooorreeee.