![]() “It feels creaky, ancient, hopelessly out of touch, infatuated with the hot taboos of his youth and unable to connect with that twisty thing contemporary sexuality has become,” wrote Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post. One of the most consistent complaints about it was that its attitude toward sex seemed badly dated. While some critics praised it as one of the master’s greatest works, it was perceived by some as a disappointment, an underwhelming valediction from the great director, who died a few months before its release. The film they eventually collaborated on, Eyes Wide Shut, came out twenty years ago to mixed reviews. “I don’t think so.” Raphael thought about it. “Hadn’t many things changed since 1900,” he recalled asking Kubrick, “not least the relations between men and women?” “Think so?” Kubrick replied. As Raphael later recalled in an essay for The New Yorker, he was initially skeptical. The story took place in Hapsburg Vienna Kubrick wanted to know if Raphael could adapt it into a screenplay set in contemporary New York. Perhaps the most multi-faceted film that Kubrick ever made, as the revelations about Epstein and Maxwell continue to be revealed, it’s likely its relevance will only grow stronger.įollow Far Out Magazine across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.In 1994, Stanley Kubrick sent the screenwriter Frederic Raphael a novella about a doctor who embarks on a dark odyssey of the soul after learning that his wife has fantasized about fucking another man. ![]() The inferences of Eyes Wide Shut are tremendous and manifold. It is not to be toyed with, as the ramifications for doing so can be much worse than any laymen could possibly imagine. High society is different from normal society, operating by different rules. When Ziegler explains the world to Hartford is perhaps the most pertinent in the whole film. Remind you of anyone? The Billiard room scene, where he describes the circumstances of the girl who overdosed’s death, saying “her door was locked from the inside”, was chillingly precise. ![]() Although at this point in the story, Ziegler seems like he is the most powerful man in the world, he is only an underling. The total lack of empathy he shows for the unconscious, naked woman when he says, “I think they call it a speedball”, confirmed our long-held suspicions: high society does not care about us at all. Hartford’s patient, Victor Ziegler, is his way into the dark side. The foresight of this character is incredible, as it preceded the #MeToo movement and the Epstein revelations by years. ![]() Hartford acts as the conduit for the audience, and on his journey, he goes from being ignorant to the evils of the society that he’s on the fringes of, to be acutely aware of it. If you’re doubtful of the accuracy of this, the stories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein will be enough to affirm the truth. Epstein never murdered any young women (that we know of), but this act of murder can also be taken as symbolic, representing how high society and people such as Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have a penchant for picking up those in need, using them and spitting them out. He’s showing us the very worst parts of high society, an exposé on the rich, who act as decadently as they did in Hapsburg Vienna. To be honest, though, Kubrick meant for Eyes Wide Shut to be taken seriously.
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