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The theme music of the film is "Waltz 2" from Shostakovich's Jazz Suite 2.
After a famously long shooting schedule (during which co-stars Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh dropped out, to be replaced by Sydney Pollack and Marie Richardson , respectively), the film was released in JulyJuly is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. July was renamed for Julius Caesar; previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the Roman calendar which started in March. Because of its orig of 1999. Critical reaction was mixed, some hailing the film as another Kubrick masterpiece but others regarding it as pretentious, tedious, and meaningless.
The storyline follows the surreal, possibly imagined, sexual adventures and misadventures of Bill (Cruise), in shock after his wife, Alice, (Kidman) reveals that she has considered an affair, and culminates in his admittance to a bizarre orgy held in a mysterious castle. The orgy sequence contains some of the most explicit portrayals of consensual sex in mainstream cinema.
Kubrick's films often deal with the subconscious and the impulses of the IdIn his theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud sought to explain how the unconscious mind operates by proposing that it has a particular structure. He proposed that the self was divided into three parts: the Ego the Superego and the Id . The general claim. When the savage impulses of "the Shadow" (from the psychological theories of Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung ( July 26, 1875 June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. At university, he was a student of Krafft-Ebing. For a time, Jung was Freud's heir-apparent in the psychoanalytic school.), are not integrated with the conscious life, madness results. Kubrick said that he was interested profoundly in the Shadow (the archetype of the savage) and how it emerges despite civilization. In "Eyes Wide Shut," Alice (Nicole Kidman) expresses her fantasy affair to Bill (Tom Cruise) after the couple had been to a party where Bill had treated a prostitute for an overdose. Bill's old friend Nick (Todd Field) tells him about a sexual underworld where men of absolute power have an absolute access to women, and Bill decides to explore this world. He moves into the circle of the Shadow, and he sees the ruthless, remorseless, and violent nature of power as sex and sex as power. He views the naked masculinity of the subconscious, through a mask. He returns to his wife, confessing all (although he was never adulterous). At the end of the movie, she seems to forgive him and says that the two must immediately go home and have sex. In a sense, the couple has integrated their psyches. They have both seen and experienced their shadows and decided to go on.
Kubrick adopted several stylistic conventions in "Eyes Wide Shut." Different lighting schemes appear in different situations. Scenes in which Alice and Bill interact with others are lit to produce natural coloration, while scenes that reflect Bill's inner life are lit to add a blue tone to the scenes, and ones that reflect Alice's inner life add a red tone. Scenes set in the city itself (rather than in a more specific location) are largely lit with decorative Christmas lights (the story is set in the Christmas season).
The story follows a dramatic structure of leaving the familiar world, entering situations that are in some way an otherworld, and returning to the familiar world. In the third part of the movie, Bill revisits the scenes of the adventures he had the night before. This is reminiscent of the structure Kubrick used in A Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork Orange is a dystopian 1962 novel by the Mancunian writer Anthony Burgess, adapted as a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. It is widely regarded as a successor to earlier great British dystopian novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New W, in which the character Alex revisits each of the locations at which he performed violent acts in the first part of that movie.