Lets be honest, I thought this movie was about some naked idiots with your typical Hollywood nonsense.

This film takes us to a different human perception, to an area so real that makes us quite uncomfortable.
We see what we want to see around us. Just because we refuse to see it, doesn't mean that it is not there.

This movie is to be watched several times, carefully. Each scene is a riddle, full of symbolism and secrets. Pay attention to every detail, every move.
I am sure you will find the whole experience fascinating and quite frightening at the same time.

I recommend you purchase the 2 disc special edition Eyes Wide Shut. The version of the movie is the un-rated version which does not have the black silhouettes blocking the guests at the palace during the orgy scene. The movie has scenes which are a bit long but that was Kubrick's movie style of filming.

I love the movie but this has to be the most disappointing Blu-ray in my collection. The video quality is sub-par and no better than the DVD. Save your money if you're planning on "upgrading" your DVD.

Kubrick was a genius. After re-watching this many years after its release as a teenager, I realized that the set/story incongruencies, color themes, music, etc. usage is a brilliant psychological commentary. You cannot watch this w/a neurotypical mind. This is not about relationships, marriage, or secret societies. It seems to be saying that the psyche is like a merry-go-round between the conscious and subconscious, reality is dream-like, based on subconscious projection. Hints: Opening/closing scene has the same waltz music/same outside scene w/person on bench (merry-go-round theme), mailbox is the same in front of several different buildings, red backgrounds for conscious, blue backgrounds for subconscious. Brown backgrounds/clothing, glasses/books represent guilt. Death represents repressed desires. Bill takes a cab to the Rainbow costume shop but the Diner sign is clearly reflected in the window across the street (the diner was just next door to the lounge). Also, Kubrick seems to be commenting about how an individual's subconscious can project on others perceptions, using scenes w/tiger toys w/Domino and Bill's daughter. Bill's daughter asks for a large teddy at the end, but in a previous scene, she already has one in her room. The conscious/subconscious themes also seem to be highlighted w/Western theism, Santa (Red Cloak) v. angels in the background. Another blatant theistic reference is Milich, who is wearing a blue shirt w/snake tie. Milich at first appears to be appalled by his daughter's behavior, but then is instigating and promoting it the next day. Kubrick seems to be commenting that the theistic view of "external" temptation is rather ostentatious. These are a few things I've noticed watching this twice now.

The first time I saw EWS was with my cousin, a few days after it had opened in theaters in Washington DC.
I had read all the production hype, and took it with a grain of salt. Being a Kubrick fan and studying his work since the 1970’s, I was confident he would not make a film as superficial as the ads indicated.
Seeing a Kubrick film for the first time, has always been a very special thing for me, and my first reactions are always the same; elation, awe, confusion and curiosity.
I always walk away from the experience deeply moved by the sheer power of Kubrick’s imagery and style. EWS was no exception, but in a way, I felt disappointment because I could only see the surface of a film that appeared to be about the love lives of a rich couple. Who cares! How can this film be so trite?
Yet, at the same time, I was bothered by the fact that there was something lurking under that surface façade, something profound, and I felt compelled to dig deeper.
It wasn’t until the release of the DVD, and viewing it several times, did I start to discover how complex this film really is.
In the first scene, we are hearing music, which we assume, is the sound track. But then Dr. Bill switches off the stereo. This is the first clue Kubrick gives us that we are about to be tricked and deceived, and that what we are about to see, is not what we think it is.
In fact, the surface story of Bill and Alice’s petty lives and marital problems is a façade, it’s not what the film is about at all. Kubrick is throwing us a red herring.
Every scene in this film has its own story arc, and resonates with a mysterious immediacy, real, at the same time, unreal, ‘hyperreal’!
Much of the story, and its true meaning, are visual, the dialog merely giving us clues where to look.
The film is not about sex, or even about infidelity, it’s about wealth, power, corruption at its core, and class distinction.
Kubrick takes us into the forbidden underbelly of the ultra-rich and their immoral, controlling social order which infects the lower classes like a cancer.
Kubrick’s last film is very complex, powerful and terrifying.
I believe it’s a masterpiece which will one day be considered one of the best films ever made.

Hollywood's cults exposed. Who cares? BORING AS HELL!

A typical Kubrick scary masterpiece. The scene with the masks is one of the most terrifying moments in movie history. Kubrick died during the post production. You know he hit a nerve that exposed the Illuminati. And this was years before Wikileaks.

This is the greatest movie ever made, Kubrick really went deep into the depths. Most people will watch this movie and never understand the allegory or what those "depths" are but those who do will be pleased.