History Film / EyesWideShut

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense,'' the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. It also has acquired a huge MisaimedFandom (or {{Hatedom}}), particularly among ConspiracyTheorist communities, who project some incredibly strange WildMassGuessing on to both the movie's plot and production history. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

* AllJustADream / SchrodingersButterfly: ''Very'' subtle hints in the movie provide clues that this is so. After all, the movie ''is'' called Eyes Wide '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shut.]]'''

* BluffTheImpostor: Bill is found out when he doesn't know the "house password" for the mansion. [[spoiler: It is left unclear what the password is - or even if it exists in the first place.]]

* BluffTheImpostor: Bill is found out when he doesn't know the "house password" for the mansion. [[spoiler: There never was a house password.]]

->'''Dr. Bill Harford:''''A little oversimplified, Alice, but yes, something like that.

->'''Alice Harford:''' ''Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women... women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else!''
->'''Dr. Bill Harford:''' ''A little oversimplified, Alice, but yes, something like that.''
->'''Alice Harford:''' ''If you men only knew...''

* CaliforniaDoubling: London standing in for New York. The English countryside for Long Island.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Bill and Nick after the orgy. [[spoiler: It's stated that Nick got the crap beaten out of him by the wealthy men whose orgy he helped Bill crash but no one can located him. Furthermore, the man who tells Bill this only does so as part of a hard sell to Bill to keep quiet about what he saw, with it heavily implied that bad things will happen to Bill [[ShameIfSomethingHappened if he doesn't forget what he saw.]]]]

* SeriousBusiness: Alice didn't even cheat on him. She once fantasized about cheating on him. This revelation rocks Bill to his core and sends him off on his QuestForSex.

* SceneryCensor: See ExecutiveMeddling in the Trivia section. And apparently the early versions were [[{{Narm}} more badly done,]] with Creator/RogerEbert even comparing them to ''Film/AustinPowers.''

* TheUnreveal: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}: Victor says that [[spoiler: Mandy died of an overdose after being gang-banged at the orgy and that Nick got the crap beaten out of him but is alive and well and that the super-wealthy people at the orgy didn't have them killed and we only have Victor's word on the subject, which is suspect since these answers come in the same breath that he's telling Bill to forget what he saw at the mansion. Because the people at the orgy are the super-rich and super-powerful and that Bill should be grateful that Victor's effectively giving him all the answers he needs to hear, Victor says he has to move on and forget what happened that night.]]

* ShoutOut: The password is "Theatre/{{Fidelio}}," an opera from Ludwig Van. [[Film/AClockWorkOrange Little Alex]] would be grinning somewhere.

* OminousLatinChanting: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNzuF33tZo sinister chanting]] during the "mass," when Harford first enters the mansion, is in fact part of a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy, played backwards as is usually done during black masses.

[[IThoughtThatWas No relation to]] DiesWideOpen.

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense,'' the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. It also has acquired a huge MisaimedFandom (or HateDom), particularly among ConspiracyTheorist communities, who project some incredibly strange WildMassGuessing on to both the movie's plot and production history. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Fidelio."]]

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense'', the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. It also has acquired a huge MisaimedFandom (or HateDom), particularly among ConspiracyTheorist communities, who project some incredibly strange WildMassGuessing on to both the movie's plot and production history. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* AllJustADream[=/=]SchrodingersButterfly: ''Very'' subtle hints in the movie provide clues that this is so. After all, the movie ''is'' called Eyes Wide '''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shut.]]'''

* BigFancyHouse: The lavish countryside mansion where the orgy is held. Shot at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentmore_Towers#Film_location Mentmore Towers]].
* BluffTheImpostor: Bill is found out when he doesn't know the "house password" for the mansion. [[spoiler:There never was a house password.]]

-->'''Alice''': "Fuck."

* LockedRoomMystery: {{Subverted}} with Mandy who rescues Bill at the party by offering to "sacrifice" herself and is later found dead from an overdose in her apartment. The police report says her door was locked from the inside and it's not questioned by anyone besides Bill that it really was just an accidental overdose that killed her and not foul play.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: A fair number of them are present at the "masked ball".

* MsFanservice: Alice is lightly clothed or naked for most of the movie. At a first glance, the orgy is full of [[FanserviceExtra fanservice extras]].
** Milich's daughter

* OminousLatinChanting: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNzuF33tZo sinister chanting]] during the "mass", when Harford first enters the mansion, is in fact part of a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy, played backwards as is usually done during black masses.

* QuestForSex: With his wife's fantasy of an affair haunting him, Bill Harford goes on a voyeuristic exploration to deal with his sexual frustration. Probably shouldn't have visited that mansion party though. And in the end, [[spoiler:he never gets it.]]
* RetargetedLust: The wife seemed to be trying to generate this both by bringing up other women with her husband and telling him her fantasies about running off with a sailor, but instead it plunges him into turmoil and doubt. So she eventually [[spoiler:just straight up propositions him]].

* SceneryCensor: see ExecutiveMeddling in the Trivia section. And apparently the early versions were [[{{Narm}} more badly done]], with Creator/RogerEbert even comparing them to ''Film/AustinPowers''.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: [[spoiler:Bill is encouraged to stop his "pointless investigation" on the secret society, or else.]]
* ShoutOut: The password is "Theatre/{{Fidelio}}", an opera from Ludwig Van. [[Film/AClockWorkOrange Little Alex]] would be grinning somewhere.

* TheUnreveal: Deconstructed: Victor says that [[spoiler: Mandy died of an overdose after being gang-banged at the orgy and that Nick got the crap beaten out of him but is alive and well and that the super-wealthy people at the orgy didn't have them killed and we only have Victor's word on the subject, which is suspect since these answers come in the same breath that he's telling Bill to forget what he saw at the mansion. Because the people at the orgy are the super-rich and super-powerful and that Bill should be grateful that Victor's effectively giving him all the answers he needs to hear, Victor says he has to move on and forget what happened that night]].

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense'', the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. It also has acquired a huge MisaimedFandom (or HateDom), particularly among ConspiracyTheorist communities, who project some strange WildMassGuessing on to both its plot and production history. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense'', the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. It also has a huge MisaimedFandom (or HateDom) who project some pronouncedly strange WildMassGuessing on to both its plot and production history. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

The film being advertised in total secrecy, impressive seeing how the internet was starting to become a major player with script leaks of other movies being commonplace, and released in a summer that included ''[[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' and ''Film/TheSixthSense'', the film received a [[LoveItOrHateIt deeply polarized reaction]] from both critics and moviegoers as they went into what was packaged as "Sexy Times with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" and walked out with a complex, esoteric and largely [[FanDisservice unsexy]] film that subverted all their expectations. Like all of Stanley Kubrick's other movies, it's slowly being VindicatedByHistory, yet still remains somewhat divisive. Still recommended for Kubrick aficionados and completionists.

* TheUnreveal: Deconstructed: Victor says that [[spoiler: Mandy died of an overdose after being gang raped at the orgy and that Nick got the crap beaten out of him but is alive and well and that the super-wealthy people at the orgy didn't have them killed and we only have Victor's word on the subject, which is suspect since these answers come in the same breath that he's telling Bill to forget what he saw at the mansion. Because the people at the orgy are the super-rich and super-powerful and that Bill should be grateful that Victor's effectively giving him all the answers he needs to hear, Victor says he has to move on and forget what happened that night]].

* LockedRoomMystery: [[Subverted]] with Mandy who rescues Bill at the party by offering to "sacrifice" herself and is later found dead from an overdose in her apartment. The police report says her door was locked from the inside and it's not questioned by anyone besides Bill that it really was just an accidental overdose that killed her and not foul play.

* LockedRoomMystery: [[Subverted]] with the girl who rescues Bill at the party by offering to "sacrifice" herself and is later found dead from an overdose in her apartment. The police report says her door was locked from the inside and it's not questioned by anyone besides Bill that it really was just an accidental overdose that killed her and not foul play.

->''"Fuck"''