Hmmm... you guys got my started with this, since this is one of my favorite Top 10 movies of all time, I'm going to explain why I consider it so. And I have to apologize beforehand because I am using English, since I could explain a lot of things better in English.

Eyes Wide Shut (EWS) is a very complex and deep movie. It's not some typical Hollywood Summer movies about car chases, buildings being blown up or boys falling in love with girls. It's much more complex and cellebrial and it provokes your mind to think and appreciate the art and the magic of moviemaking in the highest intellectual sense. In other words, EWS is not for everyone.

The movie itself consists of two different worlds, reality and subconscious world. The subconscious world is again divided into two phases, dream and imagination. The two main characters, Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) are really representation of two human beings with many similar and different, but yet unique characteristics. Everything that plays a big role in a husband-wife relationship is explored in a stylish, artsy, but yet very mysterious way ala Kubrick. They are entangled in many aspects of married life, stuck in the reality of average human desires (sex, jealousy, rage, revenge, obsession, and guilt) and these desires are transcended back and forth between the subconsious mind and the consious mind with no clear definition, which is very true in the reality of life, yet all of these basic human characteristics are also surrounded by their place in the society, being a young couple, but very succesful and financially stable couple in New York. Especially if you know life in New York, you will understand more where Kubrick hits the subjects and combine all of the elements of society, human desires, greed, horror and the subconsious mind.

It was also brilliant how Kubrick can create a 2.5 hours movie with such slow pacing (especially at the beginning of the movie), and make it seem like a being in a complete dream when you get out of the movie that only last for several minutes. Notice, the pace keeps on increasing through out the movie, during the last 30 minutes of the movie, the pace was really fast, and you don't realize it until you can almost feel your heartbeat. It is a true work of the master, Stanley Kubrick.

The sexual (orgy) scenes are handled in the most amazing way, they are very dark, mysterious, emotional, yet very artistic, not to mention the background music, cinematography, scores, lighting and the editing are top notch, never seen before in any big screens to date, and can only be visualized by Kubrick. It's a truly work of an art.

The whole movie flows like one big dream, but yet it's about reality, about a typical Upper Middle Class husband and wife life (very common in New York) with all their conflicts and human flaws looking for their places in their subconsious and consious mind in the society and their own little marriage world, and how they are placed in the high society life in New York. So, it's a dream but in a reality setting.

The movie stimulates your mind and make you thinking from the beginning until the end but you don't feel it until the movie ends because Kubrick with his magical touch make it seem like one simple continous visual illussions not the weakest mind off course, but in each and every single scene, he is able to build and to create higher sense of suspense, mystery and puzzles and makes the whole thing into one awesome intellegent piece of art that touches the very soul of human beings.