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I've just seen Eyes Wide Shut and I don't know what to do with it. It was awful in any number of ways (I found the script irritated me for the same reasons that Dogville's did, which is somewhat odd) which I will no doubt enumerate tomorrow. A lot of it made me angry, and some of it was simply gorgeous. The only way I can describe my emotional state in the wake of it is "tainted."

It is probably the best case I've ever seen for the madness that encourages film, or that filn requires, not being cute. I make a lot of quasi-jests about art and control issues, and granted this film hit some of my buttons, but *shudder* -- I think it was awful and for reasons entirely unrelated to its awfulness I'm uncomfortable that it even exists.

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When I went to see this in the theatre I was really looking forward to it but by the time I emerged I felt like someone had stolen three hours of my life.
The only conclusion I could draw from it was that it had been so long since Kubric had made a movie that he was left with a sense of responsibility for creating a masterpiece that would stand as his testimony.
This seemed to result in Kubric attempting to out Kubric Kubric which left the movie disjointed and meladramatic.
A shame, a real shame