21 weird, funny and revealing thing in EYES WIDE SHUT (part 1)

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[@mandolinorchid]

Also, "Fidelio" (the password to the secret party) is a Beethoven opera that translates to "The Triumph of Marital Love"...now that's a detail to keep your eye on. There seems to be a debate over if this movie is about secret societies or personal relationships; I have to say it's about both.

[@jessieessex]

Yes. It is.

[@Nikesonmyfeet0]

Fidelio translates to "Faithfulness" actually

[@Dunam]

The Fidelio opera (Beethoven's only german opera) is about a woman who takes on a disguise and eventually sacrifices herself to save a man who is falsely imprisoned by someone of a far higher social status. This foreshadows what happens in the ritual, where a masked woman sacrifices herself to save dr. Bill from the elite.

[@gvlacic21]

Yo finally. Thank you. Both. Its both. No reason it has to be one or the other. Multiple layers. Multiple lenses. An artists wet dream.

[@runarvollan]

Love or Fear.

[@davidmarzolino7159]

Stanley Kubrick was the Leonardo da Vinci of the film arts

[@krell2130]

you're half way there, it was in fact da vinci who was the kubrik of whatever it was leonardo did

[@evanricheson1630]

And the elite killed him for it

[@tarunmittalphoto]

Except when he made Spartacus

[@musamusashi]

@@tarunmittalphoto what about Spartacus?

[@papigringo5692]

I would say he was the James Joyce of the film arts, but we're on the same page, so to speak.

[@InTheWinkOfAnEye]

You missed the sign on the stairway wall as Tom Cruise was entering the Sonata Cafe. The sign read "All Exits Are Final" indicating the sinister nature of the group of people he was becoming involved with and their terminal way of dealing with anyone who has knowledge of their activities and is willing to leave the group or expose them.

[@williamdon3442]

Christopher Santoro totally dig it. Ya know watching movies isn’t the same for me now as I try to analyze them my own way lol

[@VardaoftheStars]

Christopher Santoro i swear Kubrick loves his damn exit signs! Lol

[@wolfman8325]

Also the star of Ishtar features prominently. The headline on the newspaper at the end is superimposed. And at 4:55 one of those women mention Rockefeller plaza. Rockefeller's.....and a other introduces herself as Lady Windsor. If I remember correctly. Seems like an odd mention of two powerful dynasties

[@poindextertunes]

also Bill had dirt on Ziegler the OD’d hooker. no one ever mentions that

[@josephdinicola698]

Interesting you said that. Because Scientology which Tom cruise is a part of in real life, that's exactly how they deal with people who leave Scientology and expose them.

[@mrright2288]

this has to be one of the creepiest movies in modern times.. it delves into the kind of subconscious fears that many of us have but would rather not face or even think of. Kubrick was a true master of cinematic art..

[@ysabellabrave]

It's Kubrick - everything's deliberate!

[@northstar2621]

Thank you.

[@indigoviperlondon8838]

Couldn't have said it better!

[@AnnaLVajda]

I disagree he's surreal so you get symbolism and repeated themes but it's just to play with your mind he's a bit Lynch like. I don't know about Alice and her husbands money I thought her having to know where his wallet was is an indication he is scattered in mind despite his prominate position also the math problem is not men but boys as it is for children no age is expressed and the grinch thing just shows how even innocent childish things are perverted now days they have lewd porn sites of cartoon characters and superheroes fornicating too nothing is sacred Bill has gone over the rainbow into the Technicolor world and has witnessed all the ugliness have you seen Pleasantville?

[@julieddee7]

I was involved with the filming of this movie, the location was not Mentmore Towers (not the interior anyway) , you got that wrong, the interior scenes for the "Masked Ball" were all filmed at Elveden Hall Suffolk, I spent weeks there with Mr Kubrick religiously going over and over and OVER the scenes - you just wouldnt believe it! It was filmed in 1997 (at least the scenes I was in were) but the movie wasnt completed until almost 1999 as Stanley Kubrick was such a perfectionist, in fact from what I witnessed, Perfectionist doesn't even come close! He also made us all work American time , so we had to work from 2 or 3 pm in the afternoon - which was his mornings (9am approx in USA) to about 3am (9pm in the states) He got what he wanted and if you didnt want to do it there was plenty who wanted the gig! I drove home from wardrobe dept many times at 4am blurry eyed, not wide eyes shut! I will never forget that time in my life ever, mustve watched the orgy scene about 1,000 times and I'm really not joking, 3 weeks to film one scene, I can see why movie took 2 years to make!

[@guccigucci5002]

+Jules Dee Krystal Julie why was the hooker killed? what did he do wrong where he was going to be punished until she says to punish her instead?

[@brun0victor]

wats ur opinion about if Nicole Kidman character went or wont 2 that mysterious place? nd also, wat was that?

[@brun0victor]

+Adam K its no prove, as u can c on video, that she really was killed. this is about interpretation. and he mistake is be there without invitation, that was a secret place/society

[@julieddee7]

I know as much as I can interpret like you guys, I was involved in one scene - I had, we all had - no idea of the whole story, it was hush hush and none of the locals even knew what was going on in their village, as the hall was well back on a large estate. I was told it wouldn't be called "eyes wide shut" and believed that to be the working title so was surprised when it came out and they kept the name! (guess that was to stop us spreading info) We weren't allowed to make "eye contact" if we ever saw Kidman or Cruise, they had it written into our contracts??? Kubric was very adamant we'd be fired if we looked in their direction, but I walked straight into him in an empty room, literally bumped into him taking a short cut out of the hall, haha, didnt know where to look!

[@joannsomers8178]

+Jules Dee Krystal Julie Thanks for your information. I am sure you are glad to have the movie experiences, no matter how demanding. One question, please. In N.K.'s segment where she undresses at home, there are two tennis rackets against the corner wall. Any thoughts on the reason?Thanks for your time.

[@FormerlyNYVulgarian]

Anyone noticed when Bill read the article in the paper about Mandy’s death, (02:05:50) into film run time? They emphasized the same sentence twice. “ She has many important friends in the fashion and entertainment worlds. She has many important friends in the fashion and entertainment worlds and she believed she’d break through in the end. It was only a matter of time.” That one works well for those who believe the fashion and entertainment industries engage in this behavior while committing blood sacrifices and passing off murders as drug overdoses and other untimely deaths.

[@hao9508]

It's not a rumour and most of these models are minors. I saw it firsthand. They're being passed around by a lot of executive mal owners etc

[@dannylo5875]

​@@hao9508so do some of these models end up sacrificed to "God's" ritualistically...and what is the difference between the rituals that the public have vs the rituals that these elites do!? Do you mean the riskier and grosser the rituals associated with the worship, these deities will grant you more that you ask for from them then these other lesser rituals!? Also, if these models were wanted, why can't they just buy their own businesses and avoid the trap and this success is your own. Not one that can make a victim of abuse or ritual sacrifice...it's like what happened in Japan when a woman gets indebted to the Yakuza, they hold a gun at your throat and make you destroy yourself...

[@dannylo5875]

Same strategy, They cannot use you if you stand up or seek to avoid them altogether...

[@ptolemaios5364]

The man who dances with Alice drinks from her glass and later asks her if she has read The art of love by Ovid. In the book Ovid mentions that one should drink from the same cup as of the womans which he wants to attract.

[@Jones-d8q]

I wonder if Sandor had read Ovid...

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

Good one as always. Kubrick's attention to detail is mind-boggling.

[@devinity4301]

Kubrick died just six days after the screening of this movie.Maybe, he really wanted to say something what's going on in Hollywood and the elite circle.

[@Vortex]

It goes way deeper than Hollywood. It’s more about the people who control governments, western royal families and money/debt systems as a whole.

[@sandordomonkos8351]

Facts

[@maggieray222]

First shot of the film is Alice languorously stripping off a sleeve, open-backed evening dress. Cut to black. Next, Bill fixing cuffs, dinner suit. Alice on the loo, in a different black evening dress, long lace sleeves covering arms. My theory is the first shot is Alice returning, on her own, from a sex party. She is already in the cult. Everything that happens after is designed to screw Bill up so badly, he will be in no condition to entertain the idea his wife groomed and handed over their daughter to the cult.

[@juggernaut316]

great observation

[@1InnerGuru]

Bingo! All MKU, like (allegedly) Kidman, her dad's scandalous demise left little doubt. Cruise is highly driven but ultimately naive, they're the perfect couple for their roles.

[@johnchristopher20]

Sad and sick monsters with money.

[@poindextertunes]

Bill also revived a hooker later. provably bot his first time. they gotta keep an eye on him

[@patrickmulvey6139]

I real life Kubrick loses a daughter to a cult (Scientology) and Nicole Kidman eventually loses two children to the same cult while she returns to Catholicism. Art imitating life or vice versa? After watching the film several times, I am convinced that Alice was at the ritual/orgy, a member of the cult, had prior sexual experience with the dancing Hungarian since a happily married woman would not act so sexually dancing with a stranger...unless she was making herself available for a tryst. Excellent analysis by Mr. Ager.

[@felemelkedes]

Another significant symbol is the Inanna star in the background at 06:24 According to Sumerian clay tablets, Inanna (Ishtar in Akkad and Babylon) was the granddaughter of Enlil and the lover of Dumuzi (Tammuz in Akkad and Babylon). The eight pointed star is the star of Inannna, also associated with the planet Venus. According to the story of the clay tablets, after the death of her lover, Dumuzi, Inanna lured young warriors in her bed and sacrificed them (interesting correlation with the rituals hinted at in the movie).

[@anima6035]

Christmas - saturnalia - human sacrifice

[@meh2972]

No humans were sacrificed at Saturnalia. Venus is the morning star (Lucifer) though.

[@watermelonlalala]

I figured out the "Not a soul" line. Bill doesn't know anyone at the party, even Alice, and she has already sold her soul to the devil.

[@Orlando_from_The_Bronx]

The prop people in Eyes Wide Shut really did their homework. The neighborhood where Domino lives is a stand in for New York’s Greenwich Village (we simply call it the Village). The Pink Pussycat sign that Bill passes is specifically a Pink Pussycat Boutique sign which is an actual sex toy and novelty shop that has been located in the Village for decades. I worked there briefly about 30 years ago, and because the Village had lots of restaurants, cafes, and weird funky shops, the Pink Pussycat would get jam packed with spillover crowds and we’d crank up the music as if it were an actual night club itself.

[@xymoriintus]

No fucking shit dude

[@watermelonlalala]

Bill: Honey have you seen my wallet? Alice: Yes, that is why I married you.

[@heyokaempath5802]

Lol!!! Tbh, I took the wallet scene to be this: being next to the bed on his side means, imo, that it was the last thing he saw at night and the first thing in the morning. Was he a money-counter? It says more about him than it does his wife being money-obsessed. Money, elitism and power are important to Hartford...

[@watermelonlalala]

@@ryanpatrickwhite97 Yeah, he put that in for all the gays.

[@NEETfreak1]

My favourite example in your video is how the dialogue came from all the street signs. I remember when I was a teen talking to my friend in a parked car and she got the name of a guy wrong, and she got the name from a sign behind her head. It was so bizarre, she didn't even realize she did so until I said it outloud. Kubrick's movies are like pattern recognition porn or something. Thanks for uploading the second part for free!

[@speedystriper]

Great analysis. Most of the details I never noticed before. Kubrick has to be the most intricately deep film maker of all time. I get why Rob tries to stay away from the tin foil hat conspiracy interpretations, but damn, Kubrick left those hints all over the place in this film and also The Shining. Why would Kubrick layer in an entire subliminal narrative suggesting child molestation in The Shining? Note the Winnie the Pooh bear sitting on the toy store shelf at the end of Eyes Wide Shut, which is an exact duplicate of the one in The Shining - one of Danny's toys. It is hard for me not to get in tin foil hat mode when acknowledging these things. What was crafty Kubrick up to?

[@mihails.6398]

It's the bear who lost his tail because it was tricked by the fox.

[@DemonOfEndor]

He was trying to expose these things. Just look At Epstein scandal, Harvey Weinstein etc

[@ireneforster4279]

@Cherish God Fox …. 666

[@opentrunk]

He was up to putting props in his movies so that conspiracy theorists would create meaning out of nothingness. Kubrick just threw dogshit against the wall and let the viewers' imaginations generate the supposedly deep meanings out of the excrement.

[@DungeonStudio]

According to Frederic Raphael in the book 'Eyes Wide Open', when he told Stanley about this wild orgy he was at one time, and the high profile people that were there - Stanley freaked! When Raphael told Stan he made the whole story up, but what about having something like that in the movie. Stan was still reluctant. This is the guy that did A Clockwork Orange, and he's sweating about portraying a high class ritualistic orgy? That I always found a bit odd.

[@yapopupsoulfood]

Explain

[@robertflint2549]

The mask that he says looks like a dollar bill actually looks like a Picasso painting...

[@MostWantedHitman]

If you notice the nose is of a pigs

[@lefreakful]

My thoughts exactly.

[@tonyp333777]

This is the deepest film of my entire life. I’m 42 .

[@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9]

As I suspected based on certain moments in the audio, the ritual chant is apparently backmasked, and I have learned that it is either in Romanian or it is a Latin, spoken by a Romanian priest, or that it was translated from one language to another, and then another, and also that it is either from a mass or some other Christian ritual. I made my own reversed version of the audio a couple of days ago using Audacity, having decided to do so on the basis of those aforementioned indications of backmasking that I thought I had heard, and have found that it sounds far more natural than the version in the movie.

[@guitaoist]

Eyes Wide Shut is about MK Ultra. The creator of MK Ultra was Sidney Gottlieb, who died the same day as Stanley Kubrick: March 7, 1999. 666 days before 1/1/2001… A Space Odyssey.

[@seamusohoulihan666]

Bro 😱

[@yapopupsoulfood]

Can you expand more

[@guitaoist]

@@yapopupsoulfood i wish, just think hes “connected” as they say

[@grogdizzy5814]

Zero references or similarities to MK ultra.

[@wyliebees3028]

Rob, although it doesn't add to any analysis, I met the mask-maker for Eyes Wide Shut last winter and he told me that details around the films production were incredibly scarce and that he blindly made 100 masks with 0 knowledge of their purpose.

[@m1garandisthebest]

Where did you meet him and do you remember what his name was?

[@girlinterruptedmoment]

I paid a lot of attention to the colors. Lots of red in the bedroom or any sexual setting. Very red in the room where the satanic deity all was happening. Where it was the most red though was the children’s toy store. Apparently 20ish minutes of this movie were deleted and I believe it’s because there were children involved. How you commented on the mask being above the child’s bed could give some intel to that.

[@gabriellima7900]

The 20 minutes deleted scene is just a rumour.

[@hao9508]

​@@gabriellima7900lol they murdered this man of course the movie was altered.

[@RabidDeathCursed]

​@@gabriellima7900 the only rumour is that it is a rumour 😂

[@JoeTuber72]

It's hilarious how much money Bill winds up wasting and spending during his night odyssey. Another reason why Kidman reminds him where his wallet is. He will need it. Also the girl who wants to run off with him looks just like Nicole Kidman - uncanny.

[@jonvia]

Wow I just realized watching this video that the 'red carpet' in the ritual scene is just like the 'red carpet' at high up entertainment events like award shows and movie openings... Coincidence? Award shows do give off a ritualistic vibe. Especially since they distract the masses on a regular basis.

[@jlecampana]

Fantastic Summary, I'm always amazed how you're able to find something new every single time. #1 is a cool one! How could I not see it? *Bill = Dollar Bill*, women chase after a guy like that solely for his dollars. Good one Rob!

[@gvlacic21]

@@joseparcenary4706 don't forget alice :) Kubrick is a creative genius and whistleblower. But he forgot that dead mans switch.

[@Overlorddz]

From the moment Bill walks into the Sonata cafe, the entrance hallway is red. When he arrives at the party in a red car, walks the red carpet into the red ceremony. The danger is everywhere. The movie is about masks. How we mask ourselves to deny our true senses and how we are unaware of it. The movie is about Bill discovering true intimacy, unmasked. The clues are all over the movie. Remember how the orgy is more like a play with masks. No true intimacy. t's a perfect screenplay and cinematography. The story is a secret in plain sight.

[@noahowens6133]

The truth as it relates to conscious life has been revealed and it turned out to be better than anything we could have imagined. If you are seeking the truth search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called "The Present". The truth will set you free

[@christinakraemer740]

Noah Owens f you man that whole shit is just to make money. Reincarnation real? Yeah right bro. It says we all have lived all lives yeah right

[@gvlacic21]

Red. asleep questions reality. Blue. awake is certain things happened. (Btw get rid of blue light like any phone filter night mode and your retina signals your brain to release melatonin and get ready for bed (like sunset). So overlap of his red scenes and blue scenes. He sees both, overlaps and brings reality together. Eyes. Wide. Shut. ✌🏼

[@blessedevelyn339]

Coronavirus - now we wear the masks and the elites take their masks off.

[@HeroicPunk]

Another excellent video. Linking to the uncensored second half on your website was a smart move. Not only can we watch without stupid KZbin censorship, but we can check out your awesome collection of on-site videos, too. These analyses are great. Easily some of the best I've seen, and I always look forward to the next. Thanks!

[@storyworld414]

2:08 I remembered watching an interview with Leo Zagami along with the actress and model Julienne Davis., who played the naked woman that warned the protagonist and helped him because he helped her. I remembered that she said that the model who was the actress being banged cried a lot afterward.

[@nathanieldrake6658]

It always baffles me how in all these videos providing analyses of Eyes Wide Shut none ever mention a film called The Most Important Thing: Love (L'important c'est d'aimer) directed by Andrzej Żuławski --there are identical shots throughout each film which match including most significantly a woman disrobing from behind and almost a completely matching orgy scenes...and there is also a sexless marriage, (and impotence in general) as well as a ritualistic play within a play, etc. and most importantly a mannered, almost manic, style of acting which Zulawski pioneered in his early films and Kubrick himself embraced beginning with The Shining..the great reveal isn't a silly tie to the illuminati but rather the fact that Kubrick wasnt quite as original as we may think.

[@aliensoup2420]

You should make a video illustrating these similarities - it would be interesting.

[@jacobstromburg5803]

I might be wrong, but isn't that mask a reference to picaso's guernica?

[@eyesopen66]

Jacob Stromburg it is very Guernica esque! isn't it?

[@altratronic]

Not necessarily. Picasso painted many cubist images, Guernica being just one.

[@ysabellabrave]

Think more 'party', think more 'Dali', you should find where Mr. Kubrick was going.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

More likely his 1st Cubist masterpiece- which depicted a group of prostitutes

[@SundayGravy812]

To me it looks like a typical picasso image of two people kissing with only one body..

[@Defender78]

4:40 imagine how lucky the extra must have felt when he was given the script for the day and learned that he was selected to be the dude who gets to shoulder-smash Tom Cruise!

[@joaovitorribeiroalves1034]

And also the old man that gives him the letter looks like Jacob De Rothschild.

[@blessedevelyn339]

No, Jacob is more eggheaded lol. That man looks more like a pope.

[@sunfire5790]

@@blessedevelyn339 🤣🤣💀💀 not egghead

[@Physist07]

What about 375? The outfit Bill buys totals to $375. When Nicole Kidman is talking to their daughter about math, the total sum of the problem is $3.75. Anyone have theories?

[@bozny22]

3+7+5=15. 15 reduced is 6, the number of man/beast. The 375 is a use of numerology where numbers are reduced to a single digit. 15 is also a number of Saturn, which is where Satan is derived from. The guy with the black mask in the ritual scene who is standing on the balcony, the mask is Saturn!

[@Physist07]

bozny22 Thank you. That's satisfying.

[@consciousmachine413]

i noticed that, too.... but they were having to subtract them. i thought bill had noticed the "3.75 before i realized they had to find the difference

[@handsomebrick]

This comment led me headlong down a crazy rabbit hole, by the end I was researching David Bowie's interest in the occult in the '70s while analyzing the lyrics to his song Modern Love, before suddenly realizing that I had things to do.

[@gvlacic21]

@@bozny22 this guy, hitting home runs out the damn park! I thought I'd seen all the clues hints links of this movie. Thank you for your service.

[@AlessioBuso]

Rob what happened to the the video Eyes Wide Shut and the Bohemian Grove? Can we still see it or buy it? Thanks

[@QuizmasterLaw]

1:58 I really enjoy comparing this scene to a similar scene w/Danny and his mom in Shining. Insights?

[@rollacoastaride1937]

maaan, this movie gets deeper and deeper, one of my observations when I first saw it, the code word to enter the orgy is "Fidelio", Beethovens' only opera?, and tom cruises mask appears to be Beethovens' death mask, but the decorative beads etc half conceals the mask itself even, a mask, masking a mask?

[@maudallan9384]

Underrated comment

[@rollacoastaride1937]

@@maudallan9384 indeed, cheers

[@runarvollan]

There's the PARTY and there's the HOUSE. In the last scene with Ziegler, Bill asks if "she was the woman from the party", mixing up the two places. Notice how Ziegler flips out about that, yet Bill doesn't notice. In the end, Ziegler smooths it all out, and even the audience doesn't notice.

[@Paul_Ernst]

Always found this bit troubling. Why even bother making it the same person when we know its not the same actress. But even more: the newspaper article makes no sense if the OD had been after the house - she would have only been found sometime after 4am, but all the details are in that day's paper?

[@runarvollan]

@@Paul_Ernst I got some friends in the art game, but even more in the media game. Why keep it mysterious still? I guess because Kubrick thought the mysterious parts is what will live the longest. He was right.

[@spaceforce3432]

People that say this is a rubbish film. It may well be. But for Kurbrick to show the world how elite satanism is performed in that way is nothing more than Genius.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Where do you see "satanism"?

[@justme8841]

​@@RideAcrossTheRiver are you blind?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@justme8841 No. I just don't see what you imagine. Can you point to scenes that specifically and explicitly feature the 'Satan' character from Hebrew mythology? (Leave the sex scenes out of it. Sex isn't evil.)

[@Dashoost]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver I think Kubrick meant this film for people like you who can't see what's right in front of you the whole time. If someone doesn't lead you to it you would never have a clue. Basically like Tom Cruise throughout the whole movie

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Dashoost Why would I care about masked people having group sex? Why do you? Is house party sex illegal?

[@TituslovesPop]

I knew somebody who was friends with an extra at the time of shooting. He told me Kubrick said 'Get that guy out of the shot , he is too tall and skinny' . My memory is a bit shot but that was what was said. What was cool and sweet about that is, the extra obviously was thrilled with the fact he was going to be in a Kubrick movie, but, his face or body did not fit, which is cute to me. I also remember being at Beckton in East London near where I grew up when he was shooting Full Metal Jacket and my Dad pointing out palm trees and telling me that a man was making a film and put them there. When you are 8 or 9 that blows your mind ' Palm trees planted in grimy East London' x

[@watermelonlalala]

I knew an extra who was picked out of scene by a prestigious director working on location. The director looked the extra up and down and said, "I don't like his sideburns." Which, personally, I think meant the director sensed something odd about the extra and wanted him out.

[@BrianD1961]

Also, Epstein and Maxwell make an appearance in Eyes Wide Shut. In the ballroom scene when Nicole Kidman’s character walks alone to the lady’s room, behind her there is a couple that looks just like Epstein and Maxwell. The Maxwell character is wearing the short haircut and blazer with gold buttons that Maxwell herself has been photographed wearing.

[@tatianalitvinow5478]

You clearly missed out on the drawing of the little red devil on the wall at 2:00 where you discuss about the Grinch who stole Christmas! :)

[@pappico]

I always wondered why Mandy (the hooker who died) was adamant to let Bill escape the place even before knowing his true identity. So she'd have done the same thing as long as she "detects" that a person is an outsider?

[@morisan42]

according to the guy in the snooker scene that was staged by the secret society, but who knows

[@hermanhale9258]

She knew his true identity.

[@pappico]

@@hermanhale9258 How would she know that? Bill didn't expose his face before meeting her in the mansion.

[@hermanhale9258]

@@pappico She recognized him by his shoes.

[@pappico]

@@hermanhale9258 Proof

[@Delphinixa]

3:17 The Christmas tree looks a lot like a slice of multi colored pizza. It's even high lighted throughout the whole movie as a theme. There are so many little details in this movie, that you don't see the "in your face" signs anymore. I'm a fan of Kubrick's art and the use of cinematography to imply it in his movies. But honestly, i'm intrigued by the fact of the missing scenes that were cut out of his final movie, they must have been too shocking and too revealing to say the least if he was killed for it. To me, the ending is left open, it doesn't match the story told properly.

[@aliensoup2420]

No, the ending doesn't match the story YOU wanted told. You are simply unwilling to accept the story Kubrick wanted to tell.

[@TheRafaelBond]

@@aliensoup2420 says... you ;-)

[@aliensoup2420]

@@TheRafaelBond You people would have more legitimacy on a Flat Earth Forum. I'm amazed you haven't tried to weave that into his movies.

[@TheRafaelBond]

@@aliensoup2420 I mean, youre the "you people" interpreting a movie to your preference and accepting no other stance.

[@1InnerGuru]

Regarding the pizza shaped tree/lights, don't they also mention needing a "map" or something to that effect? MAP being code for minor attracted person/pedo.

[@thesir27]

Another interpretation of the "you had something in your eye" model exchange: is it implying that Bill has already had sex with this women? Yeahhh you know, SOMETHING in her EYE... and the exchange is very awkward, she says "YOU were very nice, YOU had a clean handkerchief". It all sounds very sexual and awkward, like she's trying to remind him of a one-night-stand and he's trying to speak in code about it

[@floridaman1371]

Thought the same thing. Definitely talking in code. Something in your eye. Half of fifth ave. Clean handkerchief. 🤔

[@watermelonlalala]

@George Querelle That's what I was just thinking. Podesta and friends talking in code.

[@johndawhale3197]

Damn...that's such a cool theory...I'm gonna roll with it :)

[@craigsimpson3901]

Possibly she wasvmuch youngervthen

[@TheRafaelBond]

its called flirting

[@cretinobambino]

I like that your analysis is so to the point

[@williamk3702]

Great stuff - telephones are significant in this film. When the telephone rings it signifies something. My pal B thinks it represents the super-ego, but he doesn't really know what he's talking about. My theory is is it is a journey in to Bill's subconscious, and is at least half a dream, or events are skewered through his perception. Similar to A Clockwork Orange, though in that case Alex isn't afflicted by insecurity and paranoia, obviously he has a grandiose self-image. I never noticed the 'PAYMENT IS EXPECTED ...' sign before, this message kind of telegraphs the entire theme of the film, not just the encounter with the prostitute - Everybody Pays one way or another, for services rendered ... people are exchanged as commodities, they offer themselves or others for sale, Bill's desirability is based on his financial health, sex is money and money is sex, etc. ... The orgy - I wonder if the conspiracists have their own Eyes Wide Shut ... it's like a film within a film, a joke on one level - Kubrick has a mega star in his film then disguises him - it could be anyone, with the voices overdubbed later. It was often observed by some unkind commentators that K would like to dispense with actors altogether - here he effectively does (sort of ...). And isn't it kind of all of us, wandering and wondering, lonely and masked through life, what is it we are missing? And never really understanding ... ?

[@hermanhale9258]

"Nothing rings a bell?" Maybe those bells are to trigger the audience's subconscious.

[@griffisbrent]

DUNH-DUNH-DUUUNNNHH! Haha! Priceless. This is a great video, Rob Ager ! :)

[@a.banks.7682]

I think one could analyze the movie Eyes Wide Shut.... for a lifetime and still they would be identifying symbols and finding clues... Stanley Kubrick was a genius... and perfectionist of the industry who is sorely missed.... Many today .... call themselves directors... yet are not! They can not even begin to measure up to the greats....

[@AT-AT-AT-AT]

funniest part of this movie is N. Kidman being considered a trophy wife 😅😅😅

[@icebergthegamer]

Ziggler tells cruise that people die. No one was murdered. It's ironic because after kubricks death, there are theories as to him being murdered for this film. Imagine Kubrick knew it would happen and he threw it in there?

[@nonperson2723]

icebergthegamer stanley kubrick faked 9/11

[@FenNick1994]

This was a great analysis. Especially the part about the "sacrifice". I believe that if a cult would spontaneously murder people, then they wouldn't hire a musician who normally play in various crappy jazz-clubs. The masked men are seemingly very rich and educated. Surely it wouldn't be difficult to find someone among them who could play the piano. I believe that the sacrifice was just a sexy roleplay and that the girl just got her brains fucked out, just like that Ziegler guy said, and then died of a drug overdose.

[@justme8841]

Wrong. The ritual we saw was real. It was not a dream. You should think it was one!

[@artvandelay3840]

One detail I noticed recently, and thought you might talk about at 3:17, is when the camera finally stops, we see the reflection of christmas lights suddenly appear on the door. The reflection isn't from the lights on the tree, though, and they appear to be moving, rather deliberately. As if someone is physically moving them from an angle we can't see them.

[@krell2130]

...and you want to be my latex salesman?

[@aliensoup2420]

Its a reflection in the camera matte-box in front of the lens. It happens all the time. In The Godfather at Don Corleone's funeral, there is a shot of Michael and family seated near the casket, and in the matte-box is a reflection of Ms. Coleone.

[@gazpacho6088]

About 4, there are other signs hanging on the wall who may have some special meaning. "All exits are final"? And the other paper who looks like a missing person note?

[@pineoandloeb]

Great video! Having some trouble downloading the second part but it's getting there. Can't count how many times I've seen the movie or how many different interpretations I've heard but I always learn something new, every time.

[@SiddharthKulkarniN]

How did Kubrick expect people to decipher so much from his movies?

[@blessedevelyn339]

The Holy Spirit gives vision to the conspiracy truthers. Those with unopened eyes cannot see at all. There are people in this comment section that cannot see it. They only see a movie about rich people and sex.

[@paolamura3497]

Kubrick was not talking to us....he was sending messages to others...must have considered himself pretty intelligent....

[@danielplainview2584]

Not that hard to imagine, when you are capable of certain things, you naturally assume others are as well.

[@betweenik]

Also the reason here 3:09 for the shot starting from a rather odd position is to bring attention to the decoration resembling eyes, which adds up to Bill receiving a note saying he’d been watched.

[@DoctorJaguarChannel]

Kubrick died for this.

[@ysabellabrave]

Yes he did. Magnum opus.

[@NW23Champ]

your profile pic is perfect

[@remotefaith]

What, how did he?

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

He was an insider doing what he was told by them. He didn't die for this or anything he did. He was a pawn for their desires and was handsomely rewarded his whole life.

[@gvlacic21]

@@wavelengthrecords-1 until ... he blew the whistle and died for this lol.

[@Codi95]

I think my favorite thing was that the song at the cult is literly a Romanian church song

[@NicPalmer43]

It is also interesting to note that the taunting Yale graduates represent another film to real life parallel. Tom Cruise has a history of people spreading rumors that he is gay.

[@watermelonlalala]

That's the secret of the whole film. Dr. Harford is gay, but he doesn't want anyone to know it. That's why he never has sex with any of the women who toss themselves at him.

[@silenthillanalysis]

Great work again Rob, contrary to some people, I think the light-hearted-ness (DEH-DEH-DEH!

[@JAMAICADOCK]

The more I look at it, this movie is about the movie industry itself. Notice that opening party has stars everywhere in the Christmas decorations. And it's so glamourous, it has to be alluding to Hollywood. Some have speculated Ziegler is linked to the fashion industry, but it doesn't feel campy enough for the fashion industry. And remember Sydney Pollack was a director/ producer in real life, just as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were a real life Hollywood couple. Ziegler could be a Weinstein type old lecher, abusing his power to exploit beautiful young actresses. Plus masks and costumes relate to drama and acting. And why do the girls have to wear masks? If they are hookers, why do they need to hide their faces from their Jons? Surely only the jons would need to wear masks. Suggesting they are not prostitutes but women equally eager to hide their identities as much as the men. In his final film, Kubrick gave us a cryptic indictment of the movie industry. Which anticipated scandals that have only recently come to light. The mask has fallen to reveal sleaziness and exploitation on an industrial scale.

[@Genevasplaytime]

Epstein proves he was showing us the truth

[@marioramos6532]

Hello Rob, I must say man, thanks to you I learned how to be more aware of things in movies. I have to thank you man. See ya. By the way love how you explained NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Been waiting for it for so long and finally you released it. Thank you.

[@T11639]

Also, I have always found funny the idea of Cruise/Harford being driven to jealous fury by Alice's 'Naval Officer'. I think this is another instance of Stanley being clever, by making reference to none other than Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell himself, the famous Navy pilot good at bagging women and downing Russian planes. Furthermore, in the opening seconds of the first party scene we are given a visual metaphor for the high-society sex games that take place at such gatherings. Bill, Alice, Ziegler and his wife greet each other in a criss-cross of arms and kisses which symbolises the ease with which partners swap and exchange each other.

[@DAGDRUM53]

2:58 Seeing the shot of Dr. Bill at his desk I wondered why my expensive deluxe 2-DVD set version didn't show the complete desk top and all of picture frames on the wall. I learned newer DVD releases tinkered with the original ratio, resulting in viewers being unable to see the full screen image Kubrick intended. So I bought a much older DVD release that showed everything Kubrick intended. I couldn't believe how much had been chopped away, or censored.

[@MirageMiM]

This is so funny! And the money themes are eye opening

[@NEETfreak1]

No pun intended....because it has an open eye on it ...or something...

[@MirageMiM]

nah. pun intended

[@JediJuniper92]

One of the most fascinating films ever made. Forever curious what scenes were cut from it.

[@andyhylton858]

A slight correction with the location of the orgy. The exterior shots of the mansion were mostly filmed at Mentmore Towers but the interior ceremonial hall was Elveden Hall on the Elveden Estate in Suffolk. Not the same hall that you featured in the old photograph.

[@markwelsh4459]

When Bill returns his costume , in the street the name Bowman shows up. Is this referencing 2001?. I dont know if you reference this in any of your videos on your site. I haven't seen any of those.

[@FEJK82]

Your puns & plays on words are just wonderful. However, you don't have to ask if we get it... your fans are sharp, and I don't miss a single one.

[@jasonsong6747]

Watched this movie for the first time - there's so many layers to this film - love movies like this!

[@interqward1]

Jesus, I can't believe you can come up with stuff I haven't seen before about this wild and amazing flick - I thought I'd seen it all and heard all the 'hidden' bits by now, having seen a lot of interesting viewpoints about the movie!! I particularly like the dollar bill thing... That was very intriguing.

[@SembuaHumpdediddle]

Another channel pointed out that any professional killins would not have been done so obviously, with the killers seen by witnesses, and so on. They wouldn't have left the victim alive in a hospital to possibly recover, for example, nor to allow the clerk to see them with Nightingale.

[@vragenstaatvrij777]

Good job man. God hides in the details.

[@Rayoscope]

2:12 - Looks more like something from another Jim Carrey movie, in our present context the more aptly named, after its eponymous hero, "The Mask", which incidentally (and without suggesting or implying a blessed thing) predates EWS by five years - a film I suspect Kubrick might've gandered, albeit desultorily. And speaking of incidentally, why does the "woman", assuming she is of that particular gender (at a "party" where apparently "everything and anything goes"), have to be a "hooker"? She could in fact be, for example, a Rothschild, which I concede would pretty much amount to the same thing.

[@ItsaKindOfMagic86]

Insightful. Great channel, cheers!

[@scottalexander4224]

Alice was explicit that she enjoyed being married, that she loved her husband, and what her husband saw/almost participated in was upsetting to her. Also, if the two women at Zeigler's party were prostitutes, then why was she at a "photo shoot" when she got something in her eye? Are all models prostitutes? Maybe according to Kubrick. The director may have been pointing out that sign in the doctor's office but that sign is in ALL doctor's offices.

[@OZ88]

Maybe the masks are a metaphor of the roles we all play (the masks we wear everyday) and the identity (desires, impulses etc) we hide even from ourselves. The only funny thing in this movie is the potrayal of a doctor by Tom Cruise, the guy didn't even look like a doctor.

[@richardronk4445]

Georgios Papadopoulos ... Tom Cruise isn't playing the part of a doctor. He's playing the part of "new money".... Doctor Bill = Dollar Bill... get it? Tom Cruise wasn't miscast. He just wasn't very good at it. He's since grown into a much better actor. Otherwise your analysis appears to be dead on!

[@Cateranrebel]

the mask are all mask of either people, places, or symbols. Thus allowing the person with some knowledge to know which people are inside the society and where the society gathers.

[@girlinterruptedmoment]

When people put on masks they are really taking them off. They shownwho they truly are

[@darbyheavey406]

What do doctors look like?

[@justme8841]

Its more like a different alter that comes out, especially for the models who get f*cked at those parties. Its called beta programming s*x kittfn

[@illbience1]

Roman Polanski's "Ninth Gate" was released on the same year, and its gaze was pointed at some very similar places.

[@jokesonyoumyguy5086]

I wonder why there is a typo in the newspaper article when they are describing Amanda’s final hours. There was a typo that was repeated back to back. Seems to have a double meaning

[@PhilWithCoffee]

Just tried watching part 2, the file is corrupted and won't play

[@pccarballo]

Happens the same

[@experienceanimation217]

The main is character is a Doctor and in the doctors handbook it obviously teaches you the early warning signs. EWS. EYES WIDE SHUT. Kubrick definitely knew this. This film is fucking scary man. He saw some shit! And I'm beginning to believe he was killed

[@xymoriintus]

Early warning signs to what?!!!

[@nonperson2723]

nice i didn't catch the second meaning of "you had something in your eye" which also makes sense of her reply "about half of fifth avenue". i really do like tom cruise's acting in this movie. the way he says to his wife in the bedroom "I was under the impression that's what I was trying to do." the delivery of that line had a very familiar feel about it, something I never see in movies

[@nonperson2723]

although i find it unlikely that the bill character stepped in to help this poor woman in any situation other than something actually having been in her eye. perhaps ethan hunt was the one who stepped in

[@nonperson2723]

ka8armataki i missed the double meaning in your comment.

[@christoffermogensen6018]

When are we going to do something?

[@Okayeg.]

even if a great revolution happens (not in communist sense), the leader of the revolution might be one of "them" i dont think there is any hope

[@gcf7175]

Another great video, Thanks! looking forward to your analysis on Air Bud.

[@sugarant1087]

GCF lol

[@davehoffman5805]

I think the grinch may be more significant than you think. This movie is known for being ta very un-christmassy christmas movie. Christmas just seems to be happening irrelevantly in the background. Also, did you notice this: When Alice calls Bill while he is at the hooker's apartment, there is a book entitled "introducing sociology" in the foreground. Immediately afterwards, there is a shot of the hooker on the bed next to a rather-larger-than-a-usual-stuffed-animal tiger. A second later, there is a continuity error and the tiger is facing the opposite direction. I wonder if this is significant for two reasons. In the Shining, when Danny is telling the psychiatrist about Tony, there is a picture of a tiger peaking out from behind another picture (you have discussed that the Tiger represents Tony.) A similar picture of a tiger appears in Lolita when Quincy is shot in the beginning. Also, in the same Shining scene, Danny is lying on an unusually large stuffed bear pillow. Finally, I believe you've stated that you believe continuity errors in the Shining are clues. I don't have a larger tie-in theory to this, but thought I'd share the observations, because I feel like there may be a connection.

[@NEETfreak1]

I have a lot of examples to add to your post. In the Shining Danny has a Winnie the Pooh bear, I can't recall the scene though. I think there's more symbolism linking Danny explicitly to Winnie the Pooh but I can't remember it. A Winnie the Pooh bear is the ending of Eyes Wide Shut. The tiger plush reappears there as well. There's so much hidden meaning hidden throughout the ending though, Rob mentioned a lot in his videos if he still has them up, but those are the two that relate to your posts. I never knew it was in Lolita either, but that seems like the movie that started Kubrick making movies with dark sexual themes. The tiger in the ending has a little girl in it too, and Danny may have been sexually abused by jack. Maybe the prostitute and Tom Cruise's kid in this movie were too? In 2001: Rob mentioned that there was a very bizarre continuity error with a sweater...eventually later on in the movie someone announces that a blue sweater is at the lost and found. Was it the one that was disappearing during the errors? It makes it look like Kubrick knew what he was doing in regards to continuity errors. (Not saying they were all intentional though.)

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

It happened at Christmas.

[@beautypablotamarini7315]

And, this is a really good decoding. Thanks

[@777oddball]

nothing that kubric ever did (especially on film) is ever `coincidental` or `not intentional` even the smallest details are by design, i suppose the real art is lettting people believe they`ve found a detail or coincidence

[@mouthofhorror]

And you missed a Rockefeller link/hint...

[@gvlacic21]

Go on?

[@darkathrax]

Go on?

[@sawilliams]

Every prop in a Kubrick film is meticulously placed and planned

[@davehowes5162]

I can watch a Kubrick movie a million times and still pick up things I missed the first 999,999 times. Stanley, we hardly knew ye.

[@J0nCoyne]

When he was reading the newspaper about the girl overdosing, did you notice the front page title on the newspaper read "lucky to be alive" ? Representing that he was the one lucky to be alive.

[@CrustyUgg]

I disagree.. when Bill asked Alice where his wallet was and she knew, I thought it was more realistic than anything else and kind of funny. Ask any woman.. we always know where our husbands things are and they don’t. And when they look for them, it could be right in front of their face and they still won’t see it. Or it could be in a place you would expect it to be found but did the man look? Nope! I just thought it was more like a real marriage and not Alice being a gold digger

[@nlgarton]

Agree, but Kubrick tends to have have a surface narrative that works (the scenario you describe) and other meanings ascribed to same dialogue/action. Single moments often have multiple meanings in his films.

[@avondaledyer8837]

Yale jocks have his characters personality from "the outsiders"

[@medhros]

Loved the video! Showed a lot of things I missed!!

[@19BenZ57]

from PERSIA ArmeniA with Passion thanks for the 2 part Rob.

[@Sul00777]

Wow! You have some amazing attention to detail.

[@JoeTuber72]

Brilliant as usual eye for details! I also like the crazy humor asides you keep throwing in and little jabs at "conspiracy nuts"...very entertaining. EWS is fast becoming my third fave Kubrick film!

[@robag555]

Joseph Rockatansky Ah, I never said "conspiracy nuts". I said "conspiracy crowd", though anyone whose read my article on How To Make Sense of Conspiracy Theories will know that I consider everyone to be a conspiracy theorist :)

[@jacktorrence3682]

@@robag555 just out of curiosity , are you by any chance the same guy who does the voiceovers for the green machine videos

[@cjwright79]

"You had something in your eye" "Just about half of Fifth Avenue" are the most intriguing lines in the whole movie for me. I can't say why, it's something just so liminal and transitory in there, there's no firm ground. I think it relates to the Starchild sequence at the end of 2001, or Tetsuo entringing a new universe at the end of AKIRA. The whole world comes from a certain point of view.

[@aliensoup2420]

Or it could simply be engaging dialogue. It's apparent you have never flirted with anyone at a party.

[@hermanhale9258]

I think her eye is a reference to anal sex, and Fifth Avenue is a reference to $$$$ and real estate that is too expensive for Dr. Bill to own.