The Big Picture On July 16, 1999, Stanley Kubrick's greatly anticipated final film, Eyes Wide Shut, was released. Kubrick passed away a few months before the movie came out, and it remains one of the auteur's most provocative, controversial, and astonishing contributions to the cinematic art form. The film stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time married in real life and playing a couple on-screen, as a doctor and his wife who admits she has considered having an affair.
Kubrick plays with Cruise's movie star persona in an interesting way, as the Cruise we know as the cocky hotshot in Top Gun or The Color of Money is nowhere to be found, neither is the heroic posture he delivered a few years earlier in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible, a role which has gone on to define his career as he returned to the franchise for the seventh installment in 2023. Instead, Cruise is up against the ropes. He is lost, vulnerable, and desperate to heal his broken ego.
Whether the disturbing events that play out in the film are meant to be taken at face value, they prove two things to Cruise's character. Either he must accept that his fantasies are so outlandish and embrace his reality where life is a lot more... normal, or these things he aspires to be a part of are far outside what he is capable of handling.
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