SHNEAKO - February 10, 2026The Demonic Truth behind ＂Eyes Wide Shut＂ Movie
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Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut is one of the most underrated films of all time, and it's one of those movies that's hard not to talk about because it's so damn good. It's a film that's almost impossible to watch without being hypnotized, and when it's over, you're left in a dream-like state where you're transported to another time and place where you are fully immersed in what can only be described as an experience.
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especially considering each one of these masks hides an elite or famous wealthy individual
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which is clearly fiction and not ever representative of anything that has happened in real life
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1999 makes you want to wonder why he was uh why he passed away but anyway this just happened in
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mar-a-lago several weeks ago doesn't look really familiar mar-a-lago head of the conservative
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in its original form. Let me see if I said posthumously
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corrected he posthumously posthumously okay if you make any further inquiries or if you say a
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single word to anyone about what you have seen there will be the most dire consequences for you
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man those color scheme in these shots are so brilliant
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very well there are not many movies that can make you forget you are watching one while you
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are watching one movies that almost put a spell on you for two to three hours where you are fully
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immersed in what can only and again i talked about that yesterday only blue velvet is one of the best
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of all time if you ever want to seem like a good film nerd or anything i'll just put you onto some
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sauce i did go to film school and this is my life blue velvet by david lynch is one of the best of
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all time and he has really complicated movies but i like this one a lot because it's easily
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digestible compared to most of them if you want to get into lynch it'd be this and if you want to
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see something really lynchian here's uh you ever see nikki minaj go on kaisen at stream
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hold on this is what is super oh come on please just find the clip quickly yes this
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everything about this is like if you've seen the midget in twin peaks enter the scene like
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doing this weird walk the architecture here the color scheme the the framing kaisenat unintentionally
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this is lynchian this is lynch without showing you lynch
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like the bbl the dance the the introduction the 3 a.m the hypnotic state the chat was in her tongue
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look at kai too i don't want to get copyrighted on youtube but yeah just
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everything about this bro but anyway yes so lynch what makes him so great is that his description
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of like how to write a great movie is to write down dreams he got all of his writing material
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from his dreams because he thought movies were a reflection of reality and dreams are a reflection
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of your subconscious which is the describer the description of reality that you have your only
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real reference point and eyes wide shut kind of matches that eyes wide shut is in a dreamlike
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state he'll describe it here but you'll see why eyes wide shut is essentially a dream
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fully immersed in what can only really be called an experience and then when it's over you go over
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damn eyes wide shut is one of those movies it pulls you in and hypnotizes you you know what's
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great about this too this is in supposed to be the west village east village of new york city
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and at the end of his life kubrick did not want to even leave london he could not be off to go
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to the united states so they literally built a new york city set and it's super accurate
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this is one of my favorite videos of new york city it didn't even shoot there
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a way that to most movies simply can't and just like its main protagonist makes you feel like you
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saw something that you are not supposed to see adapted from the 1926 german novel and this this
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novel here for eyes wide shut fans and everything it's more about the story of a marriage about
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marital problems and about looking the other way and the jealousy that comes with it right one of
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the crux moments of the story and of this movie is how the wife is describing this fantasy she had
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where she slept with the sailor that they had met at that she met at a party and that's why he goes
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in the protagonist tom cruise goes on an adventure because he couldn't handle it right she starts
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smoking weed she's like telling how she fantasized sleeping with the sailor the super tough sailor
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and he's just like a hobnami manhattan socialite doctor he can never be a sailor
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but the movie goes a lot more esoteric than just marital 26 german novella dream story
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eyes wide shut follows bill harford a wealthy doctor living with his wife someone said bro
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reads novels yeah yeah yes i like reading cole kidman in new york lucky son of a bitch who
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starts freaking out when the day after coming home from an upper class party hosted by his
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And then the patient's daughter confesses her love for him
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Who is literally dead right there in the same room
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Erica Kirk is busy lighting up fireworks at the stadium.
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He gets assaulted by a group of frat bros.
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Then he bumps into a hooker called Domino, like the pizza.
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And what's important is that even these frat bros, they call them gay.
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I don't want to say it for YouTube reaction, but they call them homophobic slurs.
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like literally every single interaction that tom cruise has with every single character in this
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movie is sexual then he bumps into a hooker called a domino like the pizza but he resists her
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what am i too schizo or did you guys hear that hold on then he bumps into a hooker called a
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domino like the pizza but he resists her advances and leaves then he walks into a
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random cafe and meets up with his old friend, Nick Nightingale, so he can invite himself to
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a secret masked party in upstate New York. So he goes to get a mask and costume from this Russian
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guy's place and bribes him to open up shop in the middle of the night so he can get a mask and a
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cape. Bro, it's fiending to go to that party. This is kind of like Elon Musk right here.
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Please, can I go to the... Allegedly, in my opinion. Please, can I go to the island? Please,
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I'll bring the costume. I want the jerky. I want the pizza. Please, please, Jeff.
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But when he goes inside, he sees that the owner's daughter is being pimped out to these two Japanese guys.
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Then he rocks up to the party where a group of masked elites seemingly fulfilled their wildest desires.
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But because he's an idiot, outed himself in front of all the masked elites.
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But luckily, they let him go in exchange for this mysterious woman
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Then, over the next two days, nearly self-destra-
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People are going to call me an arty farty film nerd.
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This composition here, Stanley Kubrick was really the greatest of all time.
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...into his own paranoia and confusion about the whole situation
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as he tries to piece together the pieces of the puzzle
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which are all hidden in plain sight before him.
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which is always more interesting than what you can.
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You guys keep saying he gives his kid away at the end.
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I don't, there's no instance in the movie where that's the, but don't spoil it for people who haven't seen Eyes Wide Shut.
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And after every viewing, there are always new thoughts and realizations that pop into your mind.
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Is it merely a disturbing satire about a guy who gets blue-balled for two and a half hours?
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Is it about the nature of desire and its potential consequences?
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Did Kubrick make the film to make Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorce?
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Did he make this film to warn us about Scientology
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because he, in his wife's words, lost his daughter to Scientology?
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Why is Tom's tooth perfectly aligned in the centre of his face?
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Is this what happens when you take the wrong turn at Balenciaga?
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Did that prostitute really just happen to die of an overdose or was she murdered?
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Or is this entire movie just a subtle expose of the wealthy elite
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is it's very weirdly crafted dreamlike atmosphere.
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into what is this nightmare blunt rotation scenario,
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and then ultimately declining into paranoia
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as he is forced to confront every stupid mistake
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here's the thing bill is wealthy he doesn't tom cruise kind of look like clavicular he's a rich
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old guy he throws around cash willy-nilly he can bribe his way into places he rips up 100
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notes like it's nothing he is what most people would consider the one percent to be but it's
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not until he gets but not the point one percent small glimpse at the top one percent of the one
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percent does he realize that he is in way over his death and is just a shock to him as it is to us
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i've seen many horror movies i've seen some very creepy and disturbing scenes but no scene has
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evoked a strange level of dread in me that the masked party scene has while still maintaining
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this dreamlike hazy quality to it there are just so many different interpretations you can ponder
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that it causes your mind to endlessly question and maybe even potentially overanalyze the details
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i'll give you an example it's never quite 100 confirmed but it's alleged that this guy in the
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tricorn hat that nods to bill is actually ziegler ziegler but i don't know for sure maybe he was
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actually the one to notice that he was an outsider and to test him further to confirm his suspicion
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those were not just ordinary you did that perfectly yeah i said oh my god
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galane maxwell elon musk i studied this when i was making my film one shot that i showed in the
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the film garage the short film i made with yay in spain i was listening to that soundtrack a lot
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where it's uh from eyes wide shut off hold off hold off and heal a little hold off me
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first like reverse latin people there if i told you their names i'm not going to tell you their
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names but if i did dexter dexter soundtrack sleep so you can't be 100 certain i never really got
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the vibe that this guy was trying to save bill but really just test to see if he's an interloper
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but you'll never be able to fully understand it and you always fear what you don't understand
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dog the entire sequence is like 25 minutes long but pacing wise it feels like it's just three
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minutes because it's like perfectly envelops the viewer into i think the last hour drags a little
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bit but that meditative dream-like state especially at the party is the most encapsulating
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entrancing filmmaking i've ever seen in my life and santa kubrick really has a perfect discography
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like this is just incredible bro i still have lolita lepeto movie i still have to see dr
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strangelove in its entirety spartacus and paths of glory but up here bro clockwork orange method
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i always had to post this up in my room when i was younger you guys got to check it out
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that you just lose track of time with how fucking weird and mythical it is please
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come forward its ambience its vibe and its setting is like a horror movie there are so
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so many subtle details that you completely miss because you are so caught up in the visuals and
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the way the scene is actually presented to you the masked attendees you know if you actually stop
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and analyze the masks themselves each one is unique and tells its own story which is just
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very eerie especially considering each one of these masks hides an elite or famous wealthy
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individual which is clearly fiction and not ever representative of anything that has happened in
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real life 1999 makes you want to wonder why he was uh why he passed away but anyway this
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just happened in mar-a-lago several weeks ago doesn't look really familiar mar-a-lago
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I think in the same morning, too, they had a Shabbat breakfast, if not mistaken, where they all gave pamphlets with a menu with the giant star of David, the flag of Israel, on it.
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Actually, I don't know what I'm even talking about.
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a lot of the masks are venetian in nature this mask looks like a plague doctor which you know
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the plague hit venice pretty hard back in the 1300s there's a donald trump mask this mask all
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the way back there looks like george soros there's even an illuminati mask bill outs himself partly
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because he chooses the mask of a commoner the volto mask which accentuates the eyes whereas
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the other masked members have the eyes distorted or covered completely thematically the masks
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themselves are important to the film's narrative and have symbolic purpose. It's all about cover
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ups and it's about the lies we tell to each other. I mean Bill was already involved in a mini cover
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up at the start of the film at Ziegler's party when a prostitute... Ziegler Epstein's party in
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the Christmas party. Prostitute ODs and he covers it up. Mandi has an overdose and he calls in Bill
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to see if he can savour the situation. Ziegler is shown to be a very wealthy and well-known
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individual with a reputation to uphold so this would obviously be a disaster to his well-being
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and it's just uncomfortable to me how he kind of wags his finger at her like uh uh uh you didn't
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say the magic word you know it's super funny here too yeah so ziggler hires a prostitute here
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the dialogue is so important here because like you were a bad kid you're a bad kid what were
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you doing you messed up it's like she od because she was doing too much coke and heroin and fent
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at the same time and then as soon as the problem arises ziggler turns from a guy soliciting a
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prostitute and to like a teacher you're a bad kid bad kid says that very specifically to me how he
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kind of wags his finger at her like uh uh uh you didn't say the magic word calls her kiddo that was
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really one hell of a scare you gave us kiddo kiddo and she apologizes sorry as if it was a kid
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misbehaving the audacity of this man there's so many different thoughts and feelings that enter
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your mind as you watch this the man in the red cloak doing this weird ritual with a staff and
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a smoking bowl and a chain the setting itself you know the mid 18 but this looks like uh it looks
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like a rothschild mansion doesn't know let's go back i don't know where it was shot this right
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here doesn't this look like a rothschild mansion let's see oh yeah literally identical it literally
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files allegedly in my opinion for looking for chocolate ice cream
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itself you know the mid 1800s victorian architecture is dazzling but creepy at the
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same time all of the exterior shots from the outside of the mansion are actually from
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mentmore towers which was originally built for the rothschilds what the fuck
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actually the ritual itself is a christian sermon delivered in romanian but played in reverse
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which is what gives it that strange eerie feel to the whole thing please come the ringleader in
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the red cloak has this mocking happy manner about him get undressed yes you will kindly
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remove your mask that's unfortunate it's just so strange and weird i love it personally i went
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into this film raw i had no idea what it was about all i knew was that it and that harvey
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kytel left the project because he was frustrated with kubrick's directing style is that the
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brooklyn in you do you think yeah stanley kubrick was a known ultra perfectionist people always
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talk about that story in highs wide shut where the female lead she had to she's like almost went
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insane because he would shoot things like 150 100 well this film took years to make and they split
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it over several years he would he was the most well-known perfectionist in cinema history it's
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a sense of ruth in me so imagine experiencing this for the first time i feel in the shining
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to get lost trying to figure out the hidden messages of kubrick's films that you forget
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the emotional and visceral response you get from actually watching his films. The lighting is very
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aesthetically beautiful. I told you, I mean, look at this color scheme right here. Everything's
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shot as a painting. Every frame is a painting. What's your favorite Kubrick movie chat? Someone
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saying Clockwork Orange. 2001 is up there as one of the greatest films of all time. My personal
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favorite's got to be Eyes Wide Shut, even though I don't think it's the best. What do you guys
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think? What's the best Kubrick of all time? 2001, Barry Lyndon. What do you guys think? Barry Lyndon?
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that's a really film nerd answer that's not the most popular yeah 2001 people say people say that
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stanley kubrick directed the moon landing but oh that's why you said the moon landing that's funny
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you don't know interstellar shut up that's fucking uh christopher nolan goofy that would
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never exist without 2001 2001's a snooze fest that's one of my bro i love that movie especially
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the ending all the freemason analogies batman okay why am i asking kick chat this stuff i can
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still conveying subtle insights into the theme of its narrative it's not like conventional
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movie lighting and it's not made to look or feel realistic the cinematography and specific framing
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staging and blocking of certain images is extremely intentional in what it wants you to see this is
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the mood the music from uh jango one change right and blocking of certain images is extremely
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intentional in what it wants you to see i actually don't think there is anyone that can make a movie
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like this anymore it's just extinct like you really just don't get scenes looking like that
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today the use of color is genius and it's always orange and blue contrast throughout what like
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even in the shot with the cab orange and blue contrast same thing with the cab jar or orange
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and blue contrast really ties the whole film together primarily you see gold for wealth
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red for danger and desire in fact red being almost everywhere makes the whole film feel
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very claustrophobic at times and blue which is uncertainty or genuine unease throughout the
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entire film you will see some type of combination of the three whether it be people and places
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within the scenes or directional lighting like gold lit rooms or the blue moon illuminating the
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ground it's really hammering home how it wants you to feel and to some i could imagine how it
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feels kind of obnoxious with the obviously unrealistic lighting but i say no again it just
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adds and doubles down to that dreamy even fever dreamlike quality about it so when daylight hits
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it feels like the filter has been washed away and it's realistic in tone and atmosphere and
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loses that dreamlike quality to benefit the conspiracy about what happened to bill the night
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before how like me a kubrick interview if you guys fax you one he almost never did interviews
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was everything you know you question if he's going crazy it's like when you have a crazy dream the
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night before but when you try and remember every detail about it you get frustrated because no
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matter how hard you try you can never get to relive it again in everyday life from a technical
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standpoint, all of these elements feel both distant yet very in your face. Hidden but obvious.
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It just makes you get lost in this one night fueled by spite and ego. It's not really something
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that can be put into words. It's something you have to experience for yourself. Eyes Wide Shut
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is simply a brilliant film. A film that is so visually memorable. One of those films that
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just stays with you in your mind forever because it's the music that haunts you. At first, it's
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this bittersweet melody that introduces us to the upper class of new york then a hum at an alien
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like frequency in an unknown language then there is this repetitive two-note rhythm which just
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pierces the soul and not in a good way and dominates the second half of the film the
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characters in this film aren't really like real characters as much as they are archetypes to
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represent warnings for bill warnings for infidelity i love the way that these characters
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are introduced at the finally hey bill how the hell are you been a long time oh college doing
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good huh how's the family how the fuck are the kids why do white people talk to each other like
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that hey how the flip are you oh fuck you you fucking piece of shit i haven't seen you in
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forever how the fuck are you you fucking scumbag piece of shit asshole i fucking hate you oh my
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god i'm gonna shoot you in the head you fucking you it's been years give me a hug you fucking
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asshole archetypes to represent warnings for bill warnings for infidelity potential warnings
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for the future of his daughter if his marriage collapses or speaking out about conspiracies
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with no definite proof the thing about kubrick is that almost everything you see in the frame
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or the background is intentional more so than other directors this is not the new york you are
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familiar with because it's not every exterior sequence in the city was shot on a sound stage
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in england meaning that everything down to the buildings the posters the trash on the ground
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the cars parked on the street the extras are all intentionally placed there to look like that for
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you to see because that is the intention eyes wide shut is a film where every frame is a painting
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every character a warning and every scene a master class in atmosphere but he did die four
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days after he submitted the first draft to warner brothers studio and even though they say that the
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soundtrack that the piano that dominates the second half of the movie they said that that's
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all fake too that there wasn't supposed to be in it originally so i guess we're never probably
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going to see the original cut but i think it showed a lot more obviously it did especially
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the party stuff year and tension 1999 was without a doubt probably the best year for movies probably
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ever he had the 1999 what do you have you have this movie's called fuck i forgot this is the
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first m night shamalan movie i love uh his early stuff what's his name yeah six cents you have the
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matrix you have fight club you have american beauty it goes on and on best year for film ever
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toy story to the matrix austin powers the blair witch project phantom menace
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hey don't hey hey hey hey sorry to the matrix austin powers the blair witch project phantom
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minute really really dude this office space fight club lock stocks smoking barrels green mile
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american beauty i'm not done being john malkovich the south park movie being john malkovich that'd
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be a great one to watch on stream things i hate about you magnolia the mummy not in hill american
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pie the iron giant fucking the wild wild west movie with will smith and eyes wide shut to really
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cement the year as one of the best in cinema history and i kid you not there really isn't
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another movie that will make you feel indescribable strange emotions quite like this film will evoke
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in you to feel what an incredible film to top off a career and it's especially funny that the last
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word from this prestigious director sex is fuck fuck i got it so goddamn close it's fuck and then
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it fades to black. Have you guys ever seen my film? You guys ever see One-Shot?
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I mean I made this in college by the way I was uh this is came out 2019
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fucking hell damn seven seven years ago is my short film. I'll skip to the let me
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skip ahead a little bit. Let's start here. Let's start here. I'll show you.
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We don't want to watch it. We good. Okay, just a little bit. Just a little bit.
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This is what Fresh wants to do to me, really do.