Eyes Wide Shut

Posted on 20/08/2010

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Around 2005 I watched the DVD of the film Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick . At the time I had no idea of the funny business which the elite enjoy and watched it expecting an insightful film into sexuality but found it boring and bemusing not understanding the underlying story regarding the dark secrets of the powerful .

A few days ago, I decided to watch it again through different eyes . I firmly believe Stanley Kubrick used the film to reveal the darker side of the elite and showed secrets which were meant to remain hidden . Below is a precis of Eyes Wide Shut from Wikipedia which details the most important sections of the movie .

Wealthy married couple Dr. Bill and Alice Harford attend a Christmas party at the home of Victor Ziegler, a friend and patient of Bill. During the party, Sandor Szavost tries to seduce Alice while two younger models try to seduce Bill, but both Alice and Bill resist the respective offers. Later, Bill is summoned by Ziegler to his bathroom where he finds a naked woman, Mandy (Julienne Davis), who has over-dosed on a speedball. Bill helps her regain consciousness and promises Victor he will not speak of the incident. Bill also meets an old friend, Nick Nightingale, a former fellow student who dropped out of medical school and is now a pianist.

The following night, while Alice and Bill smoke marijuana in their bedroom, they discuss their encounters at the party, and it grows into an argument about sexual desires and fantasies. Alice states that she contemplated having an affair, regardless of the consequences, with a naval officer whom she had seen on Cape Cod after he passingly had glanced at her. After this, Bill receives a telephone call summoning him to a deceased patient’s home. When he arrives, the former patient’s daughter, Marion, tells him she wants to give up her life to be with Bill. Bill resists and departs after her boyfriend, Carl, arrives.

While wandering the streets, Bill meets a prostitute named Domino and initially agrees to go home with her, but a call from Alice stops him. Bill then happens upon a jazz club where Nick is playing. As the two talk, Nick describes a party he played at the previous evening, and where he is also to play again that very evening. Bill coerces Nick into divulging the party’s requirements: a costume and a mask. He learns the location and the password: Fidelio. Bill goes to the costume shop of a friend long after normal hours of operation only to find it has a new owner, Mr. Milich. He offers Milich $200 over the normal rental price to acquire a costume. During their meeting, Milich discovers his teenage daughter half undressed with two Japanese men. He becomes angry with the men and threatens to call the police.

Bill goes to the Long Island mansion to attend the party. He encounters people wearing various robes and Venetian carnival masks watching a sexualized ritual involving women standing in a circle wearing masks who after disrobing are scantily clad, led by a man dressed and masked in red. As the cloaked people watch, the women rise from a circle and select men from the audience, including Bill. The woman informs Bill that he is in danger and urges him to leave, but he refuses. She is led away by someone else, after which Bill wanders through rooms in which orgies are occurring. He is soon accosted and discovered as an outsider. Bill is forced to remove his mask in front of the red-robed master of ceremonies and is also told to disrobe, but his “punishment” is “redeemed” by the mysterious woman who had initially chosen him. Bill is warned to remain silent about what he saw, or he will “suffer”. Bill returns home and finds Alice laughing in her sleep. After waking her, she tearfully tells him of her nightmare of having sex with other men knowing that Bill was watching while she laughed at him.

The following day, Bill decides to look further into the events of the previous night. He goes to Nick’s hotel and finds that Nick had apparently been beaten and taken away by two men. Bill returns the costume to the shop where he discovers that Mr. Milich was actually offering his daughter as a prostitute to the Japanese men from the previous evening. Bill then returns to the mansion, and is warned yet again. When he visits Domino’s apartment, Domino’s roommate tells Bill that Domino has been told that she was HIV positive. Bill reads a newspaper article about a model named Amanda Curran who died of a drug overdose behind a locked apartment door. Bill goes to the morgue and realizes that Amanda is the woman whom Bill had helped to revive at Ziegler’s party, and wonders if she was murdered.

Bill is then called to Victor Ziegler’s home, where Ziegler reveals he was one of those at the ritual and that nothing further was done; according to him, Amanda was the woman who “redeemed” Bill and that she was simply a drug-addicted prostitute. Ziegler warns Bill against investigating further, as some of the masked participants are said to be powerful members of society. Bill returns home to Alice and finds the mask he wore to the party on the pillow next to her. He breaks down crying, waking Alice before confessing about his journey. While Christmas shopping later that morning, Alice and Bill reconcile, and as the story ends they seem to be working on reconciliation.

Eyes Wide Shut ritual

The film is loosely based on a novella, Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler with the main difference being the introduction of the orgy scene into the film . There are two factors which has convinced me that Stanley Kubrick was a whistleblower. Firstly the film is like a documentary and shows the elite in their strange rituals and whilst I am sure the orgy scene is exaggerated, it doesn’t go into the even murkier details of paedophilia and sacrifice, even though it hints at it with the prostitution of the daughter of Rainbow Fashions by her father .

The film shows the secrecy required to keep the rituals private and the intimidation to anybody who gets close to the truth and the price for traitors in the implied murders of Amanda Curran and Nick Nightingale . Bill Harford is followed and menaced by a heavy ordered by Victor Ziegler and is told that unless he keeps quiet there will be dire consequences for him and his family .

In his meeting with Victor Ziegler at the end of the film, Kubrick implies that the cult involves very senior figures when Ziegler says : 

Those were not just ordinary people . If I told you their names, you wouldn’t sleep so good .

He also says that the cult would not allow disclosure and it is hinted that unless Bill Harford gives up his enquiries he would be next after Amanda Curran and Nick Nightingale .

The other factor involved in the elite secret rituals which Kubrick shows is the use of mind controlled ’ sex slaves ‘ . In the party scene at the beginning of the film, two girls flirt outrageously with Bill Harford and one tells him that they should go to where the rainbow ends . When Dr Bill goes to collect his costume necessary for the orgy he visits the shop named Rainbow Fashions .

These references to a rainbow are deliberate . From researchers who have investigated mind control, the most popular tale used to aid this mind control is the Wizard of Oz and the symbolic Rainbow is widely used . From Fritz Springmeier :

For those who live ‘ over the rainbow ‘ they serve their masters in such a hypnotic trance that they perceive reality like its a dream . When their memories surface they are so unlike normal memories that a system in therapy may know what to do with them .

The next favoured story is Alice in Wonderland and I believe it is no coincidence that Nicole Kidman’s character is called Alice as it is hinted in the movie that she was somehow involved with the cult with her dreams of being gang raped . The women in the film are sex slaves, either real prostitutes or mind controlled .

When the film came out nobody knew what to make of it . Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s attempts at serious acting are laughable and unbelievable and it fails as a normal film but this was not meant to be a normal film .

Was Kubrick a member of a cult and showing the world its murky secrets, or had he somehow obtained this knowledge from others ? We will never know the truth as just after the film was completed, he died of a heart attack . Was this the real reason or did he pay the ultimate price for revealing secrets which were never meant to be disclosed ? Stanley Kubrick kept the details of the movie secret whilst filming and it was after showing the final cut to Warner Bros executives that he died .

When the film was released in 1999 the idea of  the powers that be being involved in secret rituals would have been laughed at by most people but in 2000, Alex Jones and Jon Ronson managed to take films of the Cremation of Care ceremony at Bohemian Grove which involved senior US politicians and industrialists dressing up in robes and performing a mock human sacrifice and the idea was not so odd any more .

Since the movie more and more information has been revealed from ‘ victims ‘ and the movie seems to be very accurate in its details . If you want to see why the likes of Alex Jones and David Icke are now taken seriously, Eyes Wide Shut is a very good place to start .

 

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