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Eyes Wide Shut [Blu-ray]

	Eyes Wide Shut [Blu-ray]
	by Warner Home Video Sales Rank: 7642 Price: $19.99

Stanley Kubrick’s daring last film is a bracing psychosexual journey, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, rich colors, startling images: bravura traits that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone’s eyes wide open. *Viewer Reviews* Once again, a Kubrick film gets panned by the know-nothing critics and brainless movie-going public. Big deal. This is an extraordinary film; easily among Kubrick's best. I'm sorry, but if you are a Kubrick fan you've got to at least respect Eyes Wide Shut. Even on the most base, technical level it's a marvel. I'm not being snobbish here, just bluntly honest. Kubrick thought this was his best work, and it's not hard to see why once you give it a good look. It is like an onion in that there are endless layers of symbolism and meaning to be pulled apart. The film cannot be summed up in a cute one-sentence blurb, but going further I would venture that Eyes Wide Shut is the definitive 90s film- in how it examines man (and woman)'s desires, fears, and ultimately denial at the end of the 20th century. Kubrick paints a broad and beautifully crafted picture of millenial Manhattan, as experienced by the yuppie couple Cruise and Kidman, that is at once familiar and dreamlike. That a filmic trip through this world would be defined by a chillingly sinister Satanic orgy, enacted in an opulent Long Island country mansion by a group of ultra-wealthy and powerful elites, is pure Kubrickian brilliance. I consider this lengthy sequence an absolute virtuoso piece of film-making and perhaps the finest scene in any Kubrick film outside of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's swansong is haunting and truly unforgettable. This is the kind of film that crawls its way into your brain and won't come out for days, even weeks. Eyes Wide Shut is a rare sort of masterpiece- it doesn't really beat you into submission with its brilliance while you watch it. Rather, the culmination of over two and a half hours of pure cinematic art, with all its mysterious evocations and powerful emotions, suddenly overwhelms the senses as the final word of the film is uttered and the credits appear. Back To Top
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