Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick’s Great Mystery, Part II

Last time I covered the movie Eyes Wide Shut, implying that I knew of a cipher key. That is true. There’s a ton of ground to cover here, but let’s start with the dessert first.

Kubrick timed all the scenes carefully. That’s what the dozens of takes was for, so he could select a scene that was the absolute correct length, without anyone in the process understanding what he was up to. As far as they were concerned, Kubrick was just a demanding director. Yet the acting in the movie is, well, terrible. That adds to the surreal nature of the film…