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In an age of sanitized Marvel movies and algorithmic streaming content, Eyes Wide Shut stands out as a film that is genuinely, unclassifiably strange. It was the last major studio film that felt like a fever dream. We crave its weirdness now because cinema has become so safe.

Kubrick doesn't lean into conspiracy theories for cheap thrills; he uses them to show the vast distance between the "comfortable" middle class (Bill) and the true architects of power (Victor Ziegler). The scene where Ziegler explains away a possible murder while playing pool is a masterclass in the banality of evil. Perfection in Technical Detail film eyes wide shut better