From: jules
Category: Amis
Date: 7/23/99
Time: 2:53:07 AM
Remote Name: 152.163.204.203
Back to Stanley Kubrick for a sec. What do you suppose Martin thinks of his summer boiler: EYES WIDE SHUT? I bet Marty got in line to see it. I wonder if he went with his wife. What do you speculate he thought about the film at large, knowing him from his prose and therefore, inner sensibilities?
This film would attract him because he admired Kubrick but also, and most importantly, I know that sex is very, VERY important to the man. Not in the way it is to a sex-addict like Warren (B.) who was really just another case of satyriasis, and who inevitably jaded into mere voyerisman, before falling to the ultimate resignation of a classic Don Juan: marriage. Sex, to Martin, is wholly recondite.
Here what one man said about EWS on the "New York Times on the Web Forums Arts Film:" >>allyn777 - 09:29pm Jul 22, 1999 EST (#414 of 414) EWS has a very classic storyline, one that's been used since The Odyssey, including in The Wizard of Oz, Huckleberry Finn, Heart of Darkness, The Warriors, and After Hours. An episodic journey or wandering (sometimes as a metaphor for an exploration of the psyche) is actually a fairly familiar story structure.
There is, in fact, a lot of classicism in EWS, which I would speculate derives second-hand from its Freudian influences, except that I don't know enough about Freud to make such a speculation. <<