When bill enters the café, there are signs "all exits are final". I find it strange for a place like this (I mean, Bill does not pay to enter the cafe). Also strange to me : the super classy doorman. Is this just a wink for the coming party or there would be another meaning?

Is that Stanley sitting in the diner when Bill comes in to inquire about Nick Nightingale? Camera moves fast, but take a look and let me know. 🎥

Is the lingerie shop next to the nail salon a visual clue that Ziegler laced Mandy’s speedball?

Check out how the speedball vials of cocaine and heroine are laid out on the table in Ziegler’s room where Mandy is passed out. Coke upright and heroine flat like a 90 degree angle. Just like how the bottles are laid out in A Clockwork Orange when Alex and the Droogs attack the drunk guy. Where else has Kubrick hidden triangles, in plain sight?

I believe the repetitive tapping of the pool cue and staff were inspired by the blind stripling piano tuner from James Joyce’s Ulysses tapping his cane on the street. That’s why Nick is blindfolded: to bring this Eyes Wide Shut aspect back to life. In Ulysses, the Tap Tap of the blind striplings cane is juxtaposed with the deafness of the bald waiter Pat. The blind Tap is partnered with the deaf Pat. Sight/Sound, Shape/Rhythm, and Space/Time coming to life through the character’s characteristics.

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If you look at the book on the table, the one with the letter 'A' on it, as Alice walks past, the book changes from an uppercase 'A' to a lowercase 'a'. I'm trying to figure out the meaning of this. It might be due to the camera angle, but I wouldn't expect to not see the triangle of the uppercase 'A'.

Any theory?

I’ve heard some say that Kubrick is making a Helen of Troy reference in the name given to Bill and Alice’s daughter, since he makes many references to mythology in his works.

But I believe she is based on Helena Blavatsky, the Russian mystic, and founder of Theosophy. Kubrick was fascinated by the occult and mystical writings too. Any thoughts on this?

First he picks his keys, then this... it looks like a wedding band box... you guys know?

After he gets his handkerchief ( which was also clean ).

Then asks for his wallet and gets if from the bedside table.

“Prepared” is the key word in Nick’s statement to Bill. Another clue that Ziegler wanted Bill at the masked ball and got Nick involved to make sure he had the password.

Is Roz in the real world and Rosa a ghostly double in a dream? In Alice’s Wonderland? I think Alice is asleep after the joint, right before the Lou Nathanson call, and Bill’s cab ride to see his dead patient is all in her imagination. What do you think?

Does he offer the color bred? Is it late at night in a dream where the sharp lines of logic are temporarily lost and letters of words are transposed to sound like gibberish?

Kubrick makes no mistakes. Watch the bread on the kitchen counter move when Bill returns to Domino’s apartment and sits with Sally. It’s moving closer to the apple on the wall. Redemption and sin coming closer together.

Triangles are treacherous in Kubrick’s world. They are clear and sharp like daytime logic. This is dream logic in EWS, and rigid shapes break into fractals and then dissolve into mist. Also, since we’re at the hospital, watch how Kubrick splits the word Directory on the wall: Direct Tory. Bill is a descendant of English conservatives.

Why does Bill tear the $100 in half in the cab? Why won’t Milich accept $100 to open up the costume shop?

Because wholeness, oneness, and completeness are illusions. Life is really about relationships, juxtapositions, and uncertainties, from a modernist lens, like the one Kubrick used.

Look for doppelgängers, twins, and reenactments with differences in Kubrick’s work and think about that one cell that needs to become two. It has to lose half to gain double. It has to divide to multiply.

Probably been talked about before but the letter bill gets after going back to somerset just doesn’t make sense.

Red cloak already threatened bill and his family at the orgy. There would need to be an escalation of threat for the letter to make sense. And it just says hey stop what you’re doing, which is clearly not an escalation.

I believe the shot was likely altered and that the true content of the letter was likely linked to the final scene where bill and his wife release their daughter to the two men from the party.

Likely this was too far for the studio after Kubrick passed and the letter reshot

• Who is the girl in the mask who dies for Bill

• Who puts mask on bed near Bill’s wife

• Is it possible wife attender party and was lying about dream / that thing happened in real life

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Hi, I recently watched for the first time in its entirety the movie titled “Eyes Wide Shut” I am not going to write here about my feelings about the movie while I know the circumstances, symbolism and theories around the movie and the director himself.

I would like to draw attention to one(the tiniest) of the things I caught or noticed in the film - During the scene in the Jazz Bar when Nick writes down the password on the napkin sitting opposite Bill more or less has a view of the napkin as in the attached photo.

Interesting coincidence that the word Fidelio from Bill's side looks like someone wrote “OILEDIT”.

I don't want to make insinuations whereas immediately upon seeing this I had some associations to some white parties that were already happening at the time if I'm not mistaken.

It's all just a theory and I'm not convinced it's a reference directly to this case, however, the mere coincidence of what Bill initially sees is interesting knowing the hidden symbolism of the director. I would like to mention that this is not the only hidden message in this film that I noticed and that it seems to me that the case of the “second password” is not so completely closed, in fact I believe that the second password is literally shown for a minisecond on a certain frame of the film.

I leave you my dear friends with this napkin.

Hello, i have just watched the movie and i felt i did not understand everything. My “research” just showed me that how deep the rabbit hole goes and i’m confused.

I’ve tried to read and watch as much as i could but it goes in every directions !! Can someone give me basic understanding of the movie (about who’s alice, what was that orgy, what’s the goal of bill…) so i can make my conclusions ?

Thank you 🙏

When Alice asks Bill “Why do you think Ziegler invites us to these things every year?” she probing him to think deeper than “It’s because I’m his doctor”. Alice is giving her husband a riddle that she knows the answer to.

“This is what you get for making house calls” is also meant to be ironic, as Alice probably worked her way up doing late night visits to the very elites around her.

It seems pretty clear to me as well that the Hungarian and Alice know each other from the masked rituals, and that they’re having a little flirtatious fun pretending they don’t know each other.

His “deception is necessary for both parties line” of course having double meaning for two people in a relationship and referring to the masked vs unmasked gatherings.

Someone syncopated eyes wide shut with the shining and too many coincidences are occurring! Maybe his other movies work the same as well? 🫣🫣the beginning he explains syncopation, interesting but you gotta forward to get to the Kubrick stuff, it kinda gets lost toward the end involving Kanye and the presidents but the Kubrick sections are mind blowing!!!

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