A random thought
It occurs to me that the movie “eyes wide shut”, about a secret society whose members- all of privilege and wealth- gather to engage in ritualistic nihilism and (sometimes violently) defend their organization from both scrutiny and infiltration, was stanley kubrik’s last great joke on us all.
With it being in the news lately, it recently wandered through the dusty field that is my brain that he managed to recruit two of the biggest stars in the world to star in a movie that, while based on a short story that surely didn’t intend to do so, perfectly depicts the money-based faith corporation that is Scientology.
And he got Tom Cruise to come on TV after Kubrick passed away and defend the
picture’s
artistic statement.
Fuckin’ beautiful.