Eyes Wide Shut was originally rated NC-17. Therfore, there is an edited R-rated version, but the NC-17 version is recommended for a more realistic experience.
Continuing on with Stanley Kubrick, there's Eyes Wide Shut. The movie is one of the strangest known to mankind. Erotic and suspensful, the director's last film is misunderstood for obvious reasons and not many critics liked it originally. Now, people have looked past the reviews and began to enjoy it.
Eyes Wide Shut starts out as a free form plot, but then finally starts to begin about 40 minutes in. Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) are happily married. One night, Alice admits that she had a fantasy about cheating with another man. Bill is thrown into the idea of hatred and decides that he is going to cheat on her. Little does he know that he has just delved into the odd world of secret sexuality in New York.
The film, which was originally rated NC-17, is extremely sexual. After a certain point in the movie, just about every woman is topless or shows a full frontal. Whether this is necessary or not is a common argument, but I personally feel that it is. The film is notable for the scene in which Kidman dances nude to a Chris Isaak song. Also, the orgy scene is beyond wild and seems to stretch on forever. I think it does actually clock in at about 15 minutes all together (the movie is 159 minutes long).
Another thing that stands out for the whole movie is Stanley Kubrick's direction. It is hard to hold an audience for two hours and 40 minutes, but it is even harder to keep the erotic mood of the film for that long. Every scene seems to have this eerie lingering sexuality to it. Not only this, but the shots are also composed very well. Everything is very appealing to the eye.
Stanley Kubrick's final movie is good end to his career. A great director left us with a great fantasy-or nightmare depending on how you look at it. The actors are great, the scenes are too explicit, and the movie is a great mystery. Creepy and satisfying, Eyes Wide Shut is good cult classic.
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