Eyes Wide Shut is a dreamlike odyssey where eroticism is everywhere. Stanley Kubrick’s last film, adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story, follows doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman), who have what seems like the perfect life. But after they attend a swanky New York City Christmas party, they have a candid conversation about their desires. Bill can’t fathom the idea of Alice being unfaithful, but she reveals that she’s been fantasizing about a naval officer she saw while on vacation. This surprises Bill, but what really astonishes him is that Alice has been so overcome by her desire that she’s considered leaving Bill for him.
With the thought of his wife’s potential infidelity sending Bill into a tailspin, he goes out into the city, and horniness follows him wherever he wanders. And when he stumbles upon a clandestine erotic party full of powerful people, it threatens to unravel him and his relationship for good.
