Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999)


Tom Cruise is surprisingly plausible playing a doctor. He flashes his medical license like a cop showing his badge. I avoid anything with him in it, but it was free on TUBI and would only be there two more days, so I clicked on it.

Very different than I thought it would be. Tom Cruise is mad that his wife thought about sleeping with a sailor, so he sneaks into what turns out to be a satanic sex club for rich people. They don't want their activities found out so it becomes a paranoid thriller, everything taking place in just a day or so.

The women were a lot more naked than the men which seemed old fashioned. 

I read that it was based on an old novella by a Jewish doctor in Vienna. The scene where Tom Cruise is jeered by homophobic frat boys was an anti-Semitic incident in the book. 


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