Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Information at Internet Movie Database
- Die größere Liebe trägt uns. (Stanley Kubrick: Eyes wide shut), Hbr 8,8b-12, Entwurf für eine Aschermittwochs-Predigt, Pater Martin Löwenstein SJ
- "The Dharma Blues," Robert Castle, Journal of Religion and Film.
- Looking Closer, review by Jeffrey Overstreet, "searching for truth, beauty and meaning in the movies."
- Movie Parables review.
- "Eyes Wide Shut and Adultery in 90's Cinema," Steve Lansingh, TheFilmForum: Christian Conversation about the Movies.
- Themes:
- Confession
- Bill's and Alice's respective confessions of their fantasies, dreams, and deeds.
- Dreams
- Alice's dream about her sexuality and her husband.
- Female Christ Figure
- "Stop. I am ready to redeem him." (DVD Chapter 22) Bill almost kisses the corpse in the morgue in a sort of pieta scene.
- Redemption
- "Stop. I am ready to redeem him." (DVD Chapter 22)
- Seeing/Not Seeing
- Intimacy/distance themes throughout movie - people wearing masks of various kinds, seeing and yet not seeing each other.
- Truth/Truthfulness
- Alice's confessions to her husband were the truth,
but did not promote intimacy or communication between them.
- Alice's confessions to her husband were the truth,
but did not promote intimacy or communication between them.
- Confession
