Bill snucks his way into these parties and is traumatized by that for his life.

-> in the ending scenes,he isn't even sure that if they should continue the marriage but Alice is nothing loath and still going on the "Make best outta things in hand" ideology

The whole mask on the bed scene could be viewed as Alice tottered her way to home before Bill did and arranged that schtick to implant thr fear in Bill's mind which was their ultimate motif.

Now,I could be ass shooting but there's also a cult side of the movie which involves exposing real life secrets of the royal class and it was around 1998-1999 when the rumours of Nicole cheating on Tom were circled,not saying it's true but maybe this planted the seed in Kubrick's mind but as everything in this movie is done with prose,maybe Alice also didn't want Bill to know about these parties and it's inplird throughout the movie that she has a carnality.

Why is this “phrase” so repeated in the movie? As a i recall, Bill mentioned first before any character in the movie

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You get it?

i saw a post mentioning ”the 2 hours 39 minute version” which i watched. are there any more versions? what was left out? i saw a different post mentioning Bill and Alice letting Helena go with the two masked men which i never saw. what have i missed?

The very first scene is Alice’s naked body, when they are in Ziegler’s party she asks her husband if she knows anyone there, he doesn’t—-however she behaves as if she actually knows the person she’s dancing with. She is an art gallery manager and Ziegler has a collection. The way she flirts with her dance partner, I don’t think it was the champagne talking. I think she’s used to that kind of behavior. She insist on telling her husband about her fantasy because he believes he knows her and she gets upset because he doesn’t “know her” or what she is capable of. Her being nude at the very beginning, in Ziegler’s party we see Mandy completely nude, at Red Cloak’s there are nude women—-at the very end the last word spoken and it’s by the same person who opens the movie she says “fcuk”—to me it all implies that SHE IS PART of Red Cloak’s cult and she was initiating her daughter into it. She has that “dream” where she is ganged ban… and she insists on sharing this with her husband and mentions that in her dream she wants to humiliate him by having him watch. Last but not least, I bet she’s the person who put the mask on the bed.

She wants to traffick her own daughter and I think that night was all a setup to get her husband to comply. Bill is obviously a regular Doctor with no particular wealth who has met these influential clients—I believe that these clients come from Alice. She is the one who knows Ziegler and knows the people in the party and she knows that the women that Bill is talking to are not real models.

Although, I believe that in real life—models, all these models are actually high end escorts. A lot of starlets happen to be high end escorts.— I feel that that is the case.

Bill is next to these snakes and living with one—they were trying to wake him up. Also, I think Alice was the other person who turned to look at Bill when he gets into Red Cloak’s party. She was next to Ziegler.

I 3d printed this mask, then painted it and added gems. Was kinda rushing so not perfect but good enough!

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. 🎥

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.

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