The film Eyes Wide Shut, created by Stanley Kubrick, is a compelling work that completely absorbs the audiences' minds into an artificial world that seems almost surreal. As to be expected of the master of precision, Kubrick's setting is composed of details that will take years to fragment them into pieces.
The film tells a story of a married couple who are lost in their battle of fantasy and struggling to keep their marriage alive. Slavoj Žižek claims that this is more than just a couple's fight, but it refers further into the comparison between men and women's minds. He explained that this movie is an illustration of a superiority of women's fantasy to men as the wife character explains her imagination in the beginning and the husband spends the entire film, trying to get close to that level of fantasy. So, without a clear distinction to indicate which scenes are real and which are fantasy, the film carried out in a beautiful ambiguity.
Techniques wise one thing that bothers me about, is the use of György Ligeti's piano cycle "Musica ricercata" that appears frequently to the point that instead of enhancing the atmosphere, it got distracting. But effective enough, the rest of the sound use in this film is effective in carrying out the tone of the movie.
Also, this video (http://vimeo.com/48425421#at=0) compiles Kubrick's frequent use of one point perspective from all of his movies which moreover adds to his perfection in his works.
The film tells a story of a married couple who are lost in their battle of fantasy and struggling to keep their marriage alive. Slavoj Žižek claims that this is more than just a couple's fight, but it refers further into the comparison between men and women's minds. He explained that this movie is an illustration of a superiority of women's fantasy to men as the wife character explains her imagination in the beginning and the husband spends the entire film, trying to get close to that level of fantasy. So, without a clear distinction to indicate which scenes are real and which are fantasy, the film carried out in a beautiful ambiguity.
Techniques wise one thing that bothers me about, is the use of György Ligeti's piano cycle "Musica ricercata" that appears frequently to the point that instead of enhancing the atmosphere, it got distracting. But effective enough, the rest of the sound use in this film is effective in carrying out the tone of the movie.
Also, this video (http://vimeo.com/48425421#at=0) compiles Kubrick's frequent use of one point perspective from all of his movies which moreover adds to his perfection in his works.
