Review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Markus B — 03 Mar 2018

This movie is something else, a piece of art.

First, lets start with technical aspect.

The dialogues and the scenes in the movie are something else - they are long and slow, which is quite unusual for movies. The scenes are very slow, but they glue you to the screen. You have intense feeling while watching the movie and the movie is mysterious.

You have to watch this movie in a slow, relaxed, immersed state - don't expect action here.

This movie is really well directed and is truly a piece of cinematographic art in different ways - dialogues, story, meaning, scenes, looks.

Keep in mind there's really a lot of nudity here, so you might not want to show or recommend it to everyone.

* What is the movie about and what is the lesson? *.

The whole movie I was asking myself "Why would she tell her husband that she wanted to have sex with another man?! That can totally ruin their relationship, it was not necessary to tell that!". However, after reading reviews, it seems that actually the movie is about on sexual relationship and fantasies and that you NEED to be open about some things like that. When a couple does not share their fantasies or desires then they might start fantasizing bad things, like cheating with someone else who can fullfill these desires. As a result, they both started fantasizing about cheating.

Thus, it is important to tell your desires or thoughts to the partner, to make sure they know what you want.

As some people have noticed, there are really many sexual scenes in this movie with different types of people, which all might represent something, no one knows for sure, so there are many theories, but I guess it is open for interpretation on purpose.

I think it is worth reading fan theories, for example on reddit I've seen some really interesting theories.