Line #1 YMMV/EyesWideShut


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2	* AdaptationDisplacement: Most people are more familiar with this film than with ''Traumnovelle''.
3	* AwardSnub: It received zero UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Par for the course in a Creator/StanleyKubrick film:
5	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZJdil0_HI background music]] to the infamous masked orgy ritual, which also doubles as NightmareFuel.
6	** György Ligeti's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_qPnsYIaA Musica Ricerata no. 2]] is used to great effect.
7	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2]] is also used effectively.
8	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The average person doesn't know much in the movie aside from nude Creator/NicoleKidman (at times kissing naked Creator/TomCruise, as seen on the poster) and the famous masked orgy.
9	* EndingFatigue: After TheReveal, the film still goes on for some time. Probably justified, as it highlights that the mystery, captivating and intriguing though it is, [[MocksteryTale is ultimately of secondary importance]] compared to the issues of lust, trust, and fidelity. [[MindScrew There's also the possibility that the reveal is false anyway...]]
10	* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: A common conspiracy theory, sometimes repeated semi-jokingly, is that Kubrick was murdered by the Illuminati/The CIA/some other powerful group because the orgy scene, held and conducted by masked figures implied to consist of the Global Elite, was too accurate.
11	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: During its release, it received much better reception and appreciation in European territories and in Japan than in the Anglosphere.
12	* HarsherInHindsight:
13	** When the wife tells her tale to the protagonist, what you get to see is the face of Creator/TomCruise listening to Creator/NicoleKidman -- his wife -- describing how he doesn't understand women. [[CoupleBomb The couple's real-life consecutive break-up]] makes this almost prophetic.
14	** A secret society that hosts orgies doesn't seem that ludicrous in late 2010s with Katie Couric mentioning in her memoir that she attended convicted sex trafficker and offender Jeffrey Epstein's private party which eerily resembled one in the film.
15	*** As an addition, journalist Larry Celona, who acts as the film's journalistic advisor and wrote the news article [[spoiler:for Mandy's death in the newspaper that Bill reads]], also wrote a news article about Epstein's death in RealLife.
16	* NightmareFuel:
17	** The iconic gathering of the secret society. As mentioned above, the Ligeti music is disturbing, as is the mysterious nature of the event.
18	** During the opening ritual of the gathering, a masked couple on the balcony stare down at Bill suspiciously. Done in POV, it arguably gives the illusion that they're staring right at the viewer.
19	** The tense scene at the end of the gathering when [[spoiler:Bill is outed as an uninvited guest.]]
20	* OneSceneWonder: Creator/AlanCumming only has one brief scene as an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] hotel clerk [[AmbiguouslyGay seemingly interested in Bill]], but he gives easily one of the most memorable performances in the film.
21	* SignatureScene: The entire masked "ball" sequence.
22	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Alice mostly disappears after the first act, robbing us of getting more of one of Creator/NicoleKidman's most engaging performances ever.
23	* VindicatedByHistory: ''Eyes Wide Shut'' divided audiences and critics upon release, with an attitude toward sex that critics viewed as "dated" and a plot considered exploitatively bizarre. In the years since, the perception has evolved and Kubrick's approach is widely regarded as "timeless", with the 2019 Epstein's scandal giving the film a renewed relevance.

Context YMMV / EyesWideShut