Eye’s Wide Shut: Kubrick’s Great Mystery — Part I

Matthew Heusser
3 min readJun 11, 2024

Stanley Kubrick’s last movie, “Eyes Wide Shut” is a adult fairy tale. Based on the novel Traumnovelle, or “Dream Story”, the movie has an unclear meaning. Is this the story of a frustrated husband and wife pair, waking up to their desires, told in symbols? Or did the husband discover an actual sex cult? We don’t know.

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Matthew Heusser

Software delivery consultant/writer and other things. Collaborative software geek since before it was cool. Father, Catholic, Stoic.