eyes wide shut is a 1999 filmfilm
film is a visual, time-shifting medium of art and literature. It can include music.
by stanley kubrick, based on traumnovelle by arthur schnitzler.
plot
dr. bill harford and his wife alice attend a party hosted by bill's patient victor ziegler some days before christmas. both bill and alice interact with guests at the party who try to seduce them (Alice talks to a Hungarian who discusses ovidovid
publius ovidius naso (43 BC - 17/18 ad) was a roman poet. his first work was amores, three books of love poems. his magnum opus is metamorphoses. He was exiled by Augustus. He was also clearly ...). ziegler calls Bill, a physician, up to his room to check on Mandy, a prostitute who has overdosed on cocaine. She recovers. When they discuss the party the next day, Alice tells Bill that on holiday she fantasized about leaving Bill and their daughter Helena for a naval officer at their hotel. Bill abruptly gets a call about a patient's death; when he leaves to talk to the patient's daughter Marion, she kisses him and tells him she loves her. Bill is then solicited by a prostitute. Bill decides to leave before anything happens. He goes to a jazz club to see Nick Nightingale, an old friend from medical school who has dropped out and become a pianist. Nick tells Bill he's playing at a secret event and gives him the password. Bill goes to a costume shop to get a dress. Strangely, the owner of the costume shop catches his daughter with two men and threatens to call the police. Finally, he goes to the event, but it turns out to be a ritual, and the members catch on that Bill shouldn't be there. A masked woman warns him to leave, but when she is caught, she chooses to sacrifice herself.