The Epstein / Kubrick theory is worse than you think

You know, nobody understands Eyes Wide Shut. Nobody.

Every time it gets mentioned people look at you like they’re remembering the trauma of their one attempt to read Das Kapital.

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Because Eyes Wide Shut is one of those films that, despite…or even because…of  being very obviously about *something*, has become a kind of cultural Rorschach test for people who don’t want to see uncomfortable truths.

So Eye Wide Shut has generated a proliferation of bullsh*t interpretations.

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