EYES WIDE SHUT

[Michael D. Workman]

At 01:39 PM 7/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>This was posted to H-FILM earlier today:

To horn in briefly on this discussion: I have yet to see EWS, and probably
won't for awhile since I usually try to save the works of filmmakers whom I
respect for a rainy day. However, I would like to note that, given the
apparent damnably "dumb" nature of this film, this perspective could very
well have been within Mr. Kubrick's purview, given that the focal thrust of
EWS is sex. Those who focus though the lens are those who are so busy
rooting through what's in front of them that their perspective hardly
extends beyond the end of their nose. It would make sense to me then that
the consciousness represented is equivalently short-sighted, in order to
extend the relation of the film's precedent to its viewership. Let us not
forget that the main character is of the highest order of
professionalism--a doctor--and facticity is the order of his life, and the
lives of those with whom he holds congress. It is the nature of a genius to
be capable of communicating on any level, and not beyond the capacity of
one so bright as Kubrick to light the darkness of a diminutive personality
mired in the shallow waters of sexual identity...and to thereby demonstrate
for us the cost of pride in the face of an ostensibly worthless existence.


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