EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)—Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick (Part II)

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Cinema of Cruelty (Movies for Masochists)

The Cultists

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From the elusive transcendental logic of Mulholland Drive, to Showgirls’ sly satirical embrace of exploitation and excess, to the assumption in Southland Tales that its audience has already read the six-volume source material, some films are simply more “cruel” on their audiences than others. So, please, lie back and let The Cultists be your guides through the paralyzing and perplexing void of arthouse, experimental, avant-garde, "cult,” and otherwise just generally weird WTF cinema. Because some films just beg to be annotated. Twitter/Insta: @CinemaOfCruelty Reddit: /r/CinemaOfCruelty

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EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)—Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick (Part II)

Cinema of Cruelty (Movies for Masochists)

1 hour 37 minutes

2 months ago

EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)—Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick (Part II)

**REPOST** On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists continue to present Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

***THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO PART EPISODE***

Deep Dives Include: production history; comparisons with the film’s “Dream Story” (1926) novella source material ; the Gustav Klimt color pallet; the meaning behind those neon Eros/Thanatos street signs; secret societies and other occult inspirations (from the Freemasons, to the Illuminati, Hellfire clubs, and Alister Crowley); Ovid’s Art of Love; what it means to “reach the end of the rainbow”; and how the film’s seemingly abrupt and hollow end comes straight from Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”....

Episode Safeword(s): “the morning after”

(REPOSTED Episode from 2021 that traveled over from the old Anchor platform with a broken link).