Most likely Kubrick acknowledging how dozens of millions of american men react to all the things happening to their society. Epstein island happened, everyone knows about it but just like Tom Cruise’s character all they do is watch spots and drink beer. The movie is called “Eyes Wide Shut”. Tom’s character most likely represents the average modern American man.
...it is like from the beginning of his conception Bills life was going to be one of them anyway. Possibly old wealth/connections. Him choosing to be a Dr., was irrelevant. It's can he keep secrets.
Maybe Bill turning off the Christmas tree represents his awakening to the world around him. Much like a child coming to the realization that there is no Santa. Just a thought.
The Christmas trees are in every scene, except one: the masquerade bal. Although there is no Christmas tree adorned with ornaments and lights as in every other scene, the mansion itself is surrounded by evergreen trees. An evergreen tree was regarded as a phallic symbol of fertility worship. During Christmas time, we put decorative balls in the tree and those used to represent testicles. The light in the trees is an old symbol of light in the darkness, Light (good) winning over Darkness (evil). So when he puts of the Christmas tree, does he kill the hope? Or is the fallus symbol suddenly in the dark...but still there? It's intriguing to say the least.
Just look up what Nicole Kidman's father (who was a doctor like Cruises character) was accused of doing and watch the very end of the movie when the daughter is being taken away by two old men and you'll know what Eyes Wide Shut is about... And it's no coincidence as to why Kubrick cast Kidman and Cruise
Kidman’s father was a shrink and in a Satanic cult. I have listened to a woman’s detailed testimony of being abused by him and many others and her witnessing him involved in occult & sexual acts. Nicole Kidman was also involved / aware herself as a youth. Very powerful man, and a lot of Satanic occult stuff going on in Australia (even within churches).
The six young men represent the skull & bones secret society. Look at their shirts. They go to YALE. Another subliminal reference by the mastermind Kubrick. Also after they knock Tom (Bill) over there's a very subtle rainbow like lens flare on his coat.
ALSO Yale represents a more WASPy type school (with the notorious Skull&Bones secret society like you mentioned) and Nixon was a WASP who notoriously hated the “fággy” secret societies in San Francisco, was the most notorious J hater president and also had Watergate(which involved secret meetings to take place). With the pointing out of Menoras that Bill’s family has Kubrick is most likely pointing out the clashing of WASP and J secret societies/and elites. ALSSOOOO the “Harford”’s sound a lot like Harvard which is no doubt a J elite school, which is why the Yales boys directly clashed with Bill Harford. ALSO Bill Harford had a notably more J looking nose than the actor Tom Cruise and Bill’s wife had curly hair (like a J) but the real life actress has straight hair. I could be reading into this too much BUT their sure DOES SEEM LIKE A LOT OF COINCIDENCESSSSS.
Notice final scene when Alice is laying in bed asleep and the mask, how the lights create an effect as she is also wearing a mask. As to say that almost every character is wearing one even metaphorical.
@@Bardamu3000maybe not just alcohol alone. But the observation that his personal office/home has a large bar area with a elaborate pool table. Or the showing of rich and powerful people setting around having a drink. Or celebrating.
This observation then comment on that observation is precisely why we have ssuperstitious masses. 100 bottles of alcohol means there is 100 bottles of alcohol, you stated that, that's your opinion not fact. You didn't produce the film or props , that's my observation . In fact cohesion is impossible if you aren't aware . Come on people!
There are theories that Alice was partaking in the party that can’t be talked about / has been for a long time / has a lot of power with them and all of this was an elaborate plan to tear down Bill’s masculinity, belittle him, embarrass him, turn him to jealousy. I don’t think I believe it at all but it may have been interesting to touch on
I believe that theory. She's clearly out to hurt him in many parts of the movie. Her confession, her dream, the math questions on who has more money, etc...
Thought the same, that she was "laughing at him" on several occasions, once while sleeping as he walked in. She seemed to "know" where he was, yet was cloaking her awareness by making it seem like she just dreamed about it. Her dream scenario was basically exactly where Bill had just come from.
P.S. The whole thing seemed like a Gangstaalking "Truman Show" plot against Bill as well. Everyone around him was "in on the scheme" including his wife.
Thanks for up loading. I hadn't noticed the Christmas/Halloween, commercial lighting that also appeared in a domestic setting. I had noticed that Bill is nearly always shown in a blue light. I would be interested to hear what you think about the lighting in the Shining. Particularly the chandeliers always directly above the actors head.They remind me of medieval crowns.
The ride to Long Island shows the road 106/107 which goes north of the Long Island expressway known as the LIE which is another clue hence LIE . The towns on 106:107 are where millionaires and billionaires live upper brookvile oyster bay etc. old money .
The most bizarre layer of interpretation for me that I cannot unsee is the pedophile ring. Their kid going with the two old creeps stabbed my definition I had for the ending.
Apparently the 2 men take the daughter to the mansion and she is sacrificed. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubrick’s death. Someone in the comments saw the whole movie. The comment in the end when they say they need to fu.. , is because they lost a child and now will have another one.
I alsawys read the subtext as the elites worshiping venus and Saturn. Saturnalia ended on December 23/24, celebrated in a similar way at the org* with the gold and black colours of Saturn...explains the 'shutting out' of Xmas.... 8 pointed star of venus is everywhere at the first party, you can't miss it. Good video!
I remember reading somewhere that there were cases of parents dedicating their children for "Sacred prostitution" in a temple of Aphrodite (Venus) somewhere in Ancient Greece. Not too unlike to what ended up happening with that man who bought the costume shop.
Sally and Domino are the same person. It's her alter egos or different characters she play to lure in tricks. People in her line of work, don't use their real names and often play games like this to hide their real identity. It's partly why mental health issues are so predominent in this industry; people lose themselves in their characters they play or create for roles or parts they either take on contractually or which they invent themselves - often for their own protection.
Agreed. A menorah will have nine branches, one for each of the eight nights and the servant candle to light the others. Those are just regular candelabras.
The Moorish arches at the secret rituals represent the Westernized version of "Babylon the Great", which has eclipsed the original version. The incomplete menorahs symbolize the irrelevancy of their identity as God's chosen children if they choose to partake in Satanic traditions.
Alice is 'The Pink Panther', a predator big cat that preys on rabbits and birds at night. She has people killed, includin Lou, Domino, Mandy, Nick, Bill and Helena.
Christmas represents the fantasy, the dream-like world they run amok through, toying with their desires. Agree the switching off was deliberate, it lingers on for too long. I think it signifies sobering up to reality - that fantasy runs parallel to your worst nightmares, and in the light of day it was all never worth it.
Idk if you will mention this or not, but I believe this to be the complete truth and not theory at all ! I can almost guarantee that if this wasn’t made clear in the missing hour ( + or - ) of footage, it was definitely and *DEFINITIVELY* intended ! : They gave their daughter to the old men at the end of the released movie ! (Use your own imagination why) It is also basically spelled out clearly in the dialogue as well : When they mention what they need to do immediately : it can, and I feel was meant, to be interpreted as “have another child since we no longer have our daughter !”
Cruise vears away from the bullies on the sidewalk. Because in a way, he is afraid of them. Afraid they will see that he is gay or that he is afraid of confrontation. He is also in a way afraid of his wife too. She requires too much from him and he can't give it. That is why the secret party and wearing a mask is so intriguing for him. He can be whatever he wants to be, if no one sees him. He likes to hide. But he is only a observer. That is why the red cloaked man confronts him. Also being just a observer, comes with a price. The naked woman steps up to give herself as a sacrifice. Why? I would of let them kill Cruise. Then I would of burned the mansion down. Before, I made an escape and stole a coat of course. This character, Cruise plays is a coward of the worst kind. He would allow a helpless woman to die for him. Go home and pretend it didn't happen. How many cowardly, sick, twisted men have actually done that? Unfortunately, quite a few.
Yea the movie isn’t funny to watch when the main protagonist is such a coward. All his friends that stuck their neck out for him die and he doesn’t care in the slightest. Also he’s weak for letting his wife walk all over him
Actually this is spot on. In the novella the movie was based on, the protagonist tries to sleep around to get revenge on his wife, after she confessed to have had sexual fantasies about another man.
you wouldn't have been able to escape, you would have been caught, sent to the island as an item on the menu. And you would have know this, and thus not taken action. you know that you would be even more Cowardly than Cruise. Those who scream coward are the most cowardly of all. don't get it twisted.
@craigcj5953 agree with you. Cruise's reaction is how many people would react in that very fucked up scenario and is not cowardly. If he was a total coward why would he go back to the mansion?
At exactly 14:04, when Zeigler sits on the pool table, there is a camera on the mantle - someone is watching - which a light is above. There are lights above the table and above the men's portraits to a lesser permanent degree. The ones above the table represent and are above Bill, Zeigler, the camera, and the unrepresented group of Zeigler's friends. All of these lights are from above. The only lights from below are 1. Out of sight and pointing towards a makeshift eye directly over and connected to Bill's shoulder. The only visible light from below illuminates a spiral, one of the major symbols of secretive sexual attraction to boys. Considering this and the symbols on the door of the mansion, it makes sense this spiral represents a built in foundation for this type of interests and the mansion party ruse and set up were carefully orchestrated from the beginning to assess Bill's ability to be introduced slowly to the ideas and practices the group participates in and judge his ability to keep secrets etc. with a built-in out resulting in his silence and the revoked opportunity for initiation into the group with control over his life still very much intact. Brilliant.
I think Alice gifting a Van Gogh puzzle is a interesting subtext as well. Gogh famously cut off one of his ears and sent them to a woman he was infatuated with. A man reduced to weakness over a woman who’s beyond his reach, something of a parallel for how Alice would like to see Bill.
Van Gogh and the Nutcracker ballet are things the rich and educated promoted to the middle and lower classes last century. I think they stand for the culture of the establishment, and they signal to the educated in the audience that Alice is like them, she likes what they like, she buys what they buy.
@sethgaston8347 I think there is a racial aspect to this movie that NOBODY wants to "explain", not the way they did with The Shining. Red hair is part of it. Van Gogh had red hair. It has to do with the white race, and the white Christian Americans, going the way of the dinosaur. To me, the movie is not about tortured love. Alice says she loves Bill, but she doesn't act like it. She doesn't seem at all happy to be with him. Bill seems strangely calm and happy to be with Alice, to me, in the last scene. I really don't get it.
@@hermanhale9258 I went into this in a different comment. As far as race is concerned, it’s not exactly the primary focus; but classism is, which has notes of racism. But Alice’s lack of love for Bill, yet her infatuation with the Naval Officer who she hadn’t even spoken to, exposes Bull’s weakness of being too weak. The story then focuses on it as Bill fails sexually for the rest of the entire film. He fails to have sex with actual street walkers or to even successfully enjoy a orgy and is intimated by actually powerful men. The entire film Bill CONSTANTLY brings up how he’s a doctor as he proudly showcases his Medical License; because it’s his crowning achievement, yet we get to men who are much richer, much more aggressive, and much sexually happier than he is, and who get the love of his wife, and POSSIBLY steal away his daughter (the last scene)
@@sethgaston8347 I never saw Bill attempt to have sex in the movie, he would have to get naked, first. Therefore, I have always thought, Bill is not really interested in having sex. Not with females, anyway. However, I did notice something just over the weekend, that I have never noticed in 100 plus viewings of EWS. When Bill is sitting on the side of the tub in Domino's apt. and she takes her coat and jacket/whatever off, I noticed the rim of the tub looks rather like a phallic symbol rising from Bill's crotch. Hence, I have to re-consider my old theory, because apparently Bill had a normal male reaction to the sight of a good-looking girl starting to undress.
Ziegler was supposed to be played by Harvey Keitel, but he dropped out. Is it a coincidence that Cruise’s mask looks just like Harvey Keitel? Not similar to HT, but identical to HT. Coincidence? I think not.
As you mentioned "Dream Story", it's odd that you make the deliberate bumping by a young man as a Kubrick touch. It wasn't. In the book, the young men, described as students, did exactly the same thing. Kubrick filmed the incident 100% faithfully.
@@jaehyunlivedinamericafor4y879 Yes, and unlike some filmed version of novels it is incredibly accurate to the book, written in 1926. One in the eye, then for those who claim that Kubrick had discovered and exposed a secret cabal and that his death was really the result of them murdering him, masquerading as a heart attack. Some people believe the most ridiculous garbage.
@@essies4294 It was very true to the book. Which is why I liked his previous video on the film. Focused more on how kubrick's placing on characters and camera shots were his way of telling his own story, than the story of the film.
When Domino says "maids day off" she's likely referring to herself, because she's "off" that day and by that she means taking care of her child. Because for her "work" is actually play by comparison to being a mom and keeping the kitchen clean, thus a further reference to food and the lower classes.
I think there is alot deeper meanings too that you don't touch on. Dual meanings if you will. Thers also a theory the whole thing was to get him into the "club"
Missed the most important sign at the very last scene. Where does the daughter go?....with a group of old men in blue. Clear as day. And Bill and Alice pay no mind as all Alice wants to do is "fuck".
As the stroller goes, there is another apartment right next to dominos. It very well could be theirs, while strange it’s not inside; that’s a better spot than just in the middle of the hallway. It’s tucked away instead of being in the way.
Hate to say this but this wasn't very interesting or enlightening! You are really stretching for these theories to add up...not one of them was interesting or added value to the movie/story...especially the baby pram outside the door....?!?!?!? Or the newspaper being specially written for him to find...?? I thought the known theories covered Eyes Wide Shut quite well. It was Stanley's attempt at shedding light on the secret societies and how they operate. Being that this film was not edited by Stanley and had parts removed it seems futile to attempt to decode any messages when it isn't, strictly speaking, a pure, 100% Kubrick movie. So many parts could be misinterpreted due to the missing parts...
This video is the first, after Rob Agers content, that I can actually take seriously. You get what Kubrick is about and it's not about him but about his work. Well done.
You can’t understand the movie if you don’t know about mind control and multiple personalities. Hints: The two girls in the creepy flat is the same girl. Yet, Cruise is both the doctor and red cloack, he just don’t know he is.
Movies and shows with a focus on sexual abuse often carry themes of split personalities and dissociative identy disorder. Twin peaks is all about that.
Well, that's one theory but I see plenty of character development in Bill. He's not clueless as implied here- instead he is internally questioning every aspect of his life. Bill's quietly sensing a feeling of doom, his professional bland demeanor masking a brooding introspective psyche. He's playing simple when the reality is much deeper.
Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but Bill to me comes off as someone who isn't comfortable in his sexuality. I think it's more than his confidence. My first time viewing the film was just the other day and between the 6 Yale thugs, the Rainbow costume shop, and the way Bill and Nick look at each other.. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I think Bill's character is bisexual. And if he is, then that certainly would put a wedge between him and his wife Alice.
@@Izzycentric you make a good point though, his eye contact with Nick, the way the hotel guy flirts with him, I'd not really thought about this. But I have often thought of the women in the movie as 'scarlet women' which is a kind of occult term for (red haired) women with special ways of 'opening' up men's sexuality.. a good example of this would be occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his (red-haired) girlfriend Marjorie Cameron who enlightned Jack by helping him accept his repressed bisexuality.
Frederic Raphael, the screenwriter, wanted the Harfords to be Jewish but Kubrick was opposed to that idea, he preferred the Harfords as ‘vanilla’ Americans. Kubrick added that Bill should be a ‘Harrison Ford-ish goy’ - hence Har-ford.
If you pause we're he's reading the article in the paper in sharkys there's an article on the left side about a city train shooting involving hostages and like 10-15 dead. So that's what the front page headline probably is about but I agree with you sir, that it's also about Bill and what he's gotten himself into
New to channel. Now subscribed. This Jewish heritage angle actually makes more connections. He is a doctor and will be allowed CLOSE to levers of power (in USA) but will never be part of the inner sanctum. But they will be treated well and will have their spirituality. Their heritage. Why the Christmas decor is only in the larger public area.
Alice is Passive Aggressive , when she asks Bill , " how she looks " , while peeing.... Bill didn't want to stare at her while peeing. She took it as an insult.
Because I read this in a magazine back in the 90s or earlier, I think the meaning of Bill walking into the bathroom while Alice is peeing is "The magic has gone out of their marriage." The hair comment may show loss of confidence, or it may be a vulgar joke directed to the men in the audience who are interested in watching Alice pee, seeing her underwear, and more.
Have you watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish movie, that Vanilla Sky is an English language remake of? It has Penelope Cruz, in the same role, but is also different enough to be very enjoyable, on a much smaller budget.
The problem with your theory is, that I don't think you know what a menorah is, what it's for or what they look like. They're never 5 branched - that's a candlabra - and they're never uneven hights. Something I'm sure Kubrick knew.
@@nojuanatall3281 yes, but not what I was addressing, he was calling a candlabra a menorah. They are not the same nor are they connected outside of the function of holding candles.
@@Nozarks1 which one are you talking about? There were several different candle holders. Perhaps you're not familier with what a menorah look like, they have 7 branches all in a row with one odd fellow off the center holder. The menorah is used to celebrate Chanukkah, the Festival of Lights, as a memorial to the rebuilding of the Temple. The odd fellow represents the single oil lamp that remained lit for seven days and all other candles are lit from. So you see, they cannot be five branched or nine branched, or be uneven in hight. My issue is not with the movie, it's with the presentor's misrepresentation and understanding of what a menorah is. For the record, I'm not Jewish.
16:11. Not a menorah. It has a central candle with four candles around it. There was one at my parents house when I was a kid. Is it called a candelabra? Still could be kabbalah significant. e.g. Tree of life in "solid form" (3D)
Jeffrey Epstein and Eyes Wide Shut Movie!!! (1999) th-cam.com/video/twWt37Y-UhA/w-d-xo.html Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell featuring from the beggining of the scene till Alice goes to the toilet!!! Way toooooooo coincidential ain't it!!!
Good analysis! All art, especially film when that rare occurrence when genius directors are given complete control, are ultimately about the director. Kubrick was so smart and complex that his films are infinitely interesting. And a rorshack test of what you are about NOW. 2001 now is a completely different experience than when I saw it at age 12 in 1975. You'll never see the same Kubrick movie twice. Genius.
I always was so disgusted how bills wife acted at the Christmas party. She basically was giving herself to that “austrian”. Then went home to tell him about the time she fantasized about a naval officer. This movie says lots about women…. Especially nowadays
Bible says "Let shuffle they heads for they dont know what ones are sayng to the the others " More or less that, was in old statement about the languages. Some movies dont have meaning. And we talk about kubrick he is indead a Master of movies without meaning 🤔🤣
Questioning Bill's masculinity is the whole point of this movie. When the receptionist hands Bill his mail and says "Your mail", you can interpret that as "You're male?"
I like how Bill waves his medical ID around like it's an all day pass to Disneyland.
@@aisle_of_view or a police badge
lol you silly
It kinda is.. xD
But at the very top of the social ladder, it just makes him a glorified member of the help.
Every time Bill's masculinity is attacked or brought into question, he watches football and drinks beer.
wow
Most likely Kubrick acknowledging how dozens of millions of american men react to all the things happening to their society. Epstein island happened, everyone knows about it but just like Tom Cruise’s character all they do is watch spots and drink beer.
The movie is called “Eyes Wide Shut”. Tom’s character most likely represents the average modern American man.
what about when he's walking in the street
@@Bardamu3000haha what scene
He, man!
Dr. Bill sure lives well for a physician that has only two patients booked for his afternoon.
...it is like from the beginning of his conception Bills life was going to be one of them anyway. Possibly old wealth/connections. Him choosing to be a Dr., was irrelevant. It's can he keep secrets.
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I know, imagine how much that condo he has would cost in Manhattan.
I think he makes most of his money from being a concierge doc
Is it just me or do all the women look similar. Blonde/Red hair, slim, all have a Nicole Kidman ‘look’ about them.
One of the most tempting things is a girl who looks like a younger version of the woman you're madly in love with fpr 20+ years.
No coincidence.
@@fgoindarkg you’re dead right
I think it's a nod for p e d o p h i l i a as the women are waay to slim, almost as slim as the costume shop owner's daughter
Should i mention tall?
I can’t believe no one talks about the six guys with YALE shirts. SKULL AND BONES.
Stanley was
a master !
He was giving hits at who runs things and what they are all into.
You nailed it! I never caught that, but that’s EXACTLY a detail that Kubrick would have used. What a genius that guy was.
@@scotttild- exactly. He’s done that with other films… Dr Stranglove, 2001. Striking out at those “in charge of things.”
everybody misses the Fallen Angel statue when Bill goes up the stairs to help the prostitute. Explains it all.
@@tkxx1741 yes it does. ⚡️🦉👁
Maybe Bill turning off the Christmas tree represents his awakening to the world around him. Much like a child coming to the realization that there is no Santa. Just a thought.
Maybe your right
I like this take
The Christmas trees are in every scene, except one: the masquerade bal. Although there is no Christmas tree adorned with ornaments and lights as in every other scene, the mansion itself is surrounded by evergreen trees. An evergreen tree was regarded as a phallic symbol of fertility worship. During Christmas time, we put decorative balls in the tree and those used to represent testicles. The light in the trees is an old symbol of light in the darkness, Light (good) winning over Darkness (evil). So when he puts of the Christmas tree, does he kill the hope? Or is the fallus symbol suddenly in the dark...but still there? It's intriguing to say the least.
We always switch off the tree before bedtime. In fact we do that with all the lights.
@@trikkke11 yeah, that's the thing with Kubrick; we tend to analyze every little detail.
Maybe he just wanted a shot of Tom switching off the lights.
I also find it interesting that he chose an actor and his real wife who had ties to the cult that basically had his daughter hostage at that time. 🧐
Could you elaborate? I'm curious
Stanley and Vivian had some sort of a falling out during the filming of this movie as well?
@@hntrl8880Scientology
@@hntrl8880 Cruise and Kidman were married in real life and apart of Scientology.
@@ohithur yeah but what do you mean by the cult "having his daughter hostage"?
I believe Kubrick was too on point with this film. He exposed what the “elites” do on a weekend. I believe he was un-alived for this
Did you notice the two actors playing Epstein and Maxwell at the party? Blink and you’ll miss it.
@@caitlinroseblaney226 guessing it was Ziegler
i dont think he was killed for that specifically..there are so many movies about elite cults like these tbh made by big directors
@@kellykapoor2That use the Rothschilds mansion, satanic rituals and orgies hosted by social elites?
please give me some recommendations then 😂
@@earlycuyler4019 no it’s a guy in the background at Ziegler’s party
Just look up what Nicole Kidman's father (who was a doctor like Cruises character) was accused of doing and watch the very end of the movie when the daughter is being taken away by two old men and you'll know what Eyes Wide Shut is about... And it's no coincidence as to why Kubrick cast Kidman and Cruise
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I can’t find anything about what he did other than his death. Can you explain or point me in the right direction?
Kidman’s father was a shrink and in a Satanic cult. I have listened to a woman’s detailed testimony of being abused by him and many others and her witnessing him involved in occult & sexual acts. Nicole Kidman was also involved / aware herself as a youth. Very powerful man, and a lot of Satanic occult stuff going on in Australia (even within churches).
@@vikki-333see my reply, forgot to tag you
@@vikki-333I think he was a pedo
The six young men represent the skull & bones secret society. Look at their shirts. They go to YALE. Another subliminal reference by the mastermind Kubrick. Also after they knock Tom (Bill) over there's a very subtle rainbow like lens flare on his coat.
ALSO Yale represents a more WASPy type school (with the notorious Skull&Bones secret society like you mentioned) and Nixon was a WASP who notoriously hated the “fággy” secret societies in San Francisco, was the most notorious J hater president and also had Watergate(which involved secret meetings to take place). With the pointing out of Menoras that Bill’s family has Kubrick is most likely pointing out the clashing of WASP and J secret societies/and elites. ALSSOOOO the “Harford”’s sound a lot like Harvard which is no doubt a J elite school, which is why the Yales boys directly clashed with Bill Harford. ALSO Bill Harford had a notably more J looking nose than the actor Tom Cruise and Bill’s wife had curly hair (like a J) but the real life actress has straight hair.
I could be reading into this too much BUT their sure DOES SEEM LIKE A LOT OF COINCIDENCESSSSS.
Yep I would add that their plan was to make Bill pay the women and she is too part of the cult as them
He also falls against a blue BMW. Nazi company.
There's a Lebanese flag on the building behind them too for Canaanite symbolism. Milich = Moloch.
It's really a disguised Mission: Impossible movie where he has to infiltrate a corrupt group of gazilionaires?
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Ngl from some of the shots and Cruise being the lead, I totally thought the movie would go in that direction
Mission Impossible
-"Masks of Destiny Orgy"
I have heard some theories that Bill is actually a metaphor for Stanley.
I heard one that said Bill represented JFK Jr. He even dressed like him.
That was my impression. The insider Great Artist that was actually always an outsider.
Notice final scene when Alice is laying in bed asleep and the mask, how the lights create an effect as she is also wearing a mask. As to say that almost every character is wearing one even metaphorical.
now you're just making stuff up
Alcohol in movies represents power. So for Zeiglers room to have a hundred liquor bottles represents his immense power and connections
@@Bardamu3000maybe not just alcohol alone. But the observation that his personal office/home has a large bar area with a elaborate pool table. Or the showing of rich and powerful people setting around having a drink. Or celebrating.
Ahahahah ahahahah humanity is completely dead zzzzombies LOLOL.
@@Bardamu3000 🤣🤣😆
Nah, you are wayyyyy off
This observation then comment on that observation is precisely why we have ssuperstitious masses. 100 bottles of alcohol means there is 100 bottles of alcohol, you stated that, that's your opinion not fact. You didn't produce the film or props , that's my observation . In fact cohesion is impossible if you aren't aware . Come on people!
Kubrick’s films are like Da Vinci paintings. Messages and clues hidden in plain sight.
You betcha.
There are theories that Alice was partaking in the party that can’t be talked about / has been for a long time / has a lot of power with them and all of this was an elaborate plan to tear down Bill’s masculinity, belittle him, embarrass him, turn him to jealousy. I don’t think I believe it at all but it may have been interesting to touch on
I believe that theory. She's clearly out to hurt him in many parts of the movie. Her confession, her dream, the math questions on who has more money, etc...
She is the crypto-jewish of the family ;)
Thought the same, that she was "laughing at him" on several occasions, once while sleeping as he walked in.
She seemed to "know" where he was, yet was cloaking her awareness by making it seem like she just dreamed about it.
Her dream scenario was basically exactly where Bill had just come from.
P.S. The whole thing seemed like a Gangstaalking "Truman Show" plot against Bill as well.
Everyone around him was "in on the scheme" including his wife.
Yes. Alice provoked the entire story. I believe All part of the plan.
Thanks for up loading. I hadn't noticed the Christmas/Halloween, commercial lighting that also appeared in a domestic setting.
I had noticed that Bill is nearly always shown in a blue light.
I would be interested to hear what you think about the lighting in the Shining. Particularly the chandeliers always directly above the actors head.They remind me of medieval crowns.
They always reminded me of crowns, too.
The ride to Long Island shows the road 106/107 which goes north of the Long Island expressway known as the LIE which is another clue hence LIE . The towns on 106:107 are where millionaires and billionaires live upper brookvile oyster bay etc. old money .
The most bizarre layer of interpretation for me that I cannot unsee is the pedophile ring. Their kid going with the two old creeps stabbed my definition I had for the ending.
Apparently the 2 men take the daughter to the mansion and she is sacrificed. About 25 minutes of the ending was edited out after kubrick’s death. Someone in the comments saw the whole movie. The comment in the end when they say they need to fu.. , is because they lost a child and now will have another one.
@@Nozarks1that sounds very highly unlikely
@@poindextertunes someone in the comments said they saw the 25 minutes that were removed. Who knows if that was the truth or not
I alsawys read the subtext as the elites worshiping venus and Saturn. Saturnalia ended on December 23/24, celebrated in a similar way at the org* with the gold and black colours of Saturn...explains the 'shutting out' of Xmas.... 8 pointed star of venus is everywhere at the first party, you can't miss it. Good video!
I remember reading somewhere that there were cases of parents dedicating their children for "Sacred prostitution" in a temple of Aphrodite (Venus) somewhere in Ancient Greece. Not too unlike to what ended up happening with that man who bought the costume shop.
@@ian_occultist aka Star of Ishtar/Inanna
Sally and Domino are the same person.
It's her alter egos or different characters she play to lure in tricks.
People in her line of work, don't use their real names and often play games like this to hide their real identity.
It's partly why mental health issues are so predominent in this industry; people lose themselves in their characters they play or create for roles or parts they either take on contractually or which they invent themselves - often for their own protection.
how does that make them the same person? 🤔
@@poindextertunes I just explained that, did you not read what I wrote?
@@Daggz90 hm… different actresses.
Food motif: interesting. A food motif runs in almost every scene of 2001, from the apes gobbling meat to....the last supper.
This movie totally push their most common hollyweird pathetic daily dose " The skinnier the prettier"
@@deathchronicles6960 ok tubby
Really enjoyed the takes you have on this masterpiece of a movie. It only gets better as time goes on as we pick it apart.
Not all candelabrae are menorah. Also, there are poinsettias in the living room which are a traditional Christmas decoration.
Agreed. A menorah will have nine branches, one for each of the eight nights and the servant candle to light the others. Those are just regular candelabras.
The Moorish arches at the secret rituals represent the Westernized version of "Babylon the Great", which has eclipsed the original version. The incomplete menorahs symbolize the irrelevancy of their identity as God's chosen children if they choose to partake in Satanic traditions.
yeah lost me with that one. Also I think the stroller is more of a sign that Domino and Sally were procurers of children for Ziegler.
lol yeah I didn't see a single menorah
the shots do draw attention to the candles though
Alice is 'The Pink Panther', a predator big cat that preys on rabbits and birds at night. She has people killed, includin Lou, Domino, Mandy, Nick, Bill and Helena.
The WHOLE of history is conspiratorial. Imagine being so dumb that you let the conspirators convince you that there's no conspiracy.
It appeared to me that Eyes Wide Shut took strong inspiration by two Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver and After Hours. That touched me very much.
Dude, the first example is not a menorah. It's a candelabra.
the couple on the balcony was probably the costume shop owner and his daughter since he knows that he just sold that mask to bill, thats why they nod
@@taxesrtheft also at the shop, he asks Bill what costume he wants, “clowns, officers, pirates”. Pirates eh?
Christmas represents the fantasy, the dream-like world they run amok through, toying with their desires. Agree the switching off was deliberate, it lingers on for too long. I think it signifies sobering up to reality - that fantasy runs parallel to your worst nightmares, and in the light of day it was all never worth it.
Idk if you will mention this or not, but I believe this to be the complete truth and not theory at all !
I can almost guarantee that if this wasn’t made clear in the missing hour ( + or - ) of footage, it was definitely and *DEFINITIVELY* intended ! :
They gave their daughter to the old men at the end of the released movie ! (Use your own imagination why)
It is also basically spelled out clearly in the dialogue as well :
When they mention what they need to do immediately : it can, and I feel was meant, to be interpreted as “have another child since we no longer have our daughter !”
People are the food.
I love how the back page of the news paper just says "COOL"
it really means LOOK
@bigol9223 look, I think it means cool, and I think it looks cool that, cool?
Cruise vears away from the bullies on the sidewalk. Because in a way, he is afraid of them. Afraid they will see that he is gay or that he is afraid of confrontation. He is also in a way afraid of his wife too.
She requires too much from him and he can't give it.
That is why the secret party and wearing a mask is so intriguing for him. He can be whatever he wants to be, if no one sees him. He likes to hide.
But he is only a observer. That is why the red cloaked man confronts him.
Also being just a observer, comes with a price. The naked woman steps up to give herself as a sacrifice.
Why? I would of let them kill Cruise. Then I would of burned the mansion down. Before, I made an escape and stole a coat of course.
This character, Cruise plays is a coward of the worst kind. He would allow a helpless woman to die for him. Go home and pretend it didn't happen.
How many cowardly, sick, twisted men have actually done that? Unfortunately, quite a few.
Yea the movie isn’t funny to watch when the main protagonist is such a coward. All his friends that stuck their neck out for him die and he doesn’t care in the slightest. Also he’s weak for letting his wife walk all over him
Actually this is spot on. In the novella the movie was based on, the protagonist tries to sleep around to get revenge on his wife, after she confessed to have had sexual fantasies about another man.
you wouldn't have been able to escape, you would have been caught, sent to the island as an item on the menu. And you would have know this, and thus not taken action. you know that you would be even more Cowardly than Cruise. Those who scream coward are the most cowardly of all. don't get it twisted.
@craigcj5953 agree with you. Cruise's reaction is how many people would react in that very fucked up scenario and is not cowardly. If he was a total coward why would he go back to the mansion?
@@fast6232 Wtf was ge supposed to do?
At exactly 14:04, when Zeigler sits on the pool table, there is a camera on the mantle - someone is watching - which a light is above. There are lights above the table and above the men's portraits to a lesser permanent degree. The ones above the table represent and are above Bill, Zeigler, the camera, and the unrepresented group of Zeigler's friends. All of these lights are from above. The only lights from below are 1. Out of sight and pointing towards a makeshift eye directly over and connected to Bill's shoulder. The only visible light from below illuminates a spiral, one of the major symbols of secretive sexual attraction to boys. Considering this and the symbols on the door of the mansion, it makes sense this spiral represents a built in foundation for this type of interests and the mansion party ruse and set up were carefully orchestrated from the beginning to assess Bill's ability to be introduced slowly to the ideas and practices the group participates in and judge his ability to keep secrets etc. with a built-in out resulting in his silence and the revoked opportunity for initiation into the group with control over his life still very much intact. Brilliant.
How do you know that's a camera? Look like a decoration to me. Hardly hidden bro.
I think it's a clock
@@nineteenfortyeight6762definitely a clock
This movie is just about a weekend at hillary Clinton’s house
If you only knew the truth about the Clinton's.
@@username23156 friends with Epstein along with Trump
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I dont understand why you call that decoration christmas and halloween, there are no halloween elements its a purely christmas decoration
Speaking of the street punks Did anybody else pick up on the feminine, possible gender identity crisis undertones in bill?
Like wearing Uggs in the living room while watching football?
I think Alice gifting a Van Gogh puzzle is a interesting subtext as well. Gogh famously cut off one of his ears and sent them to a woman he was infatuated with.
A man reduced to weakness over a woman who’s beyond his reach, something of a parallel for how Alice would like to see Bill.
Van Gogh and the Nutcracker ballet are things the rich and educated promoted to the middle and lower classes last century. I think they stand for the culture of the establishment, and they signal to the educated in the audience that Alice is like them, she likes what they like, she buys what they buy.
@@hermanhale9258
That’s a part of it too, but why Van Gogh specifically? I think that correlation fits in better with the rest of the story.
@sethgaston8347 I think there is a racial aspect to this movie that NOBODY wants to "explain", not the way they did with The Shining. Red hair is part of it. Van Gogh had red hair. It has to do with the white race, and the white Christian Americans, going the way of the dinosaur. To me, the movie is not about tortured love. Alice says she loves Bill, but she doesn't act like it. She doesn't seem at all happy to be with him. Bill seems strangely calm and happy to be with Alice, to me, in the last scene. I really don't get it.
@@hermanhale9258
I went into this in a different comment. As far as race is concerned, it’s not exactly the primary focus; but classism is, which has notes of racism.
But Alice’s lack of love for Bill, yet her infatuation with the Naval Officer who she hadn’t even spoken to, exposes Bull’s weakness of being too weak. The story then focuses on it as Bill fails sexually for the rest of the entire film.
He fails to have sex with actual street walkers or to even successfully enjoy a orgy and is intimated by actually powerful men. The entire film Bill CONSTANTLY brings up how he’s a doctor as he proudly showcases his Medical License; because it’s his crowning achievement, yet we get to men who are much richer, much more aggressive, and much sexually happier than he is, and who get the love of his wife, and POSSIBLY steal away his daughter (the last scene)
@@sethgaston8347 I never saw Bill attempt to have sex in the movie, he would have to get naked, first. Therefore, I have always thought, Bill is not really interested in having sex. Not with females, anyway. However, I did notice something just over the weekend, that I have never noticed in 100 plus viewings of EWS. When Bill is sitting on the side of the tub in Domino's apt. and she takes her coat and jacket/whatever off, I noticed the rim of the tub looks rather like a phallic symbol rising from Bill's crotch. Hence, I have to re-consider my old theory, because apparently Bill had a normal male reaction to the sight of a good-looking girl starting to undress.
Nicole is in the mask club for real
Ziegler was supposed to be played by Harvey Keitel, but he dropped out.
Is it a coincidence that Cruise’s mask looks just like Harvey Keitel? Not similar to HT, but identical to HT.
Coincidence? I think not.
At 15:00 in this video there is a Xmas decoration with an inverted pentagram in between Tom cruise and Nicole Kidman.
Also each side creates the seal of masonry showing their relation.
As you mentioned "Dream Story", it's odd that you make the deliberate bumping by a young man as a Kubrick touch. It wasn't. In the book, the young men, described as students, did exactly the same thing. Kubrick filmed the incident 100% faithfully.
@@jaehyunlivedinamericafor4y879 Yes, and unlike some filmed version of novels it is incredibly accurate to the book, written in 1926. One in the eye, then for those who claim that Kubrick had discovered and exposed a secret cabal and that his death was really the result of them murdering him, masquerading as a heart attack. Some people believe the most ridiculous garbage.
@tomie I am not @tony bennett but yes, and the movie was VERY faithful to the book, which conspiracy theorists don’t seem to know or realize.
@@essies4294 It was very true to the book. Which is why I liked his previous video on the film. Focused more on how kubrick's placing on characters and camera shots were his way of telling his own story, than the story of the film.
Did they wear Skull&Bones' YALE shirts in the book too?
@@essies4294conspiracy theorists are ignoring everything that spoils their narrative 😂
The Christmas and Halloween lights almost looks like the Cheshire cat’s face. Is this a nod to “Alice in Wonderland”?
When Domino says "maids day off" she's likely referring to herself, because she's "off" that day and by that she means taking care of her child. Because for her "work" is actually play by comparison to being a mom and keeping the kitchen clean, thus a further reference to food and the lower classes.
I think there is alot deeper meanings too that you don't touch on. Dual meanings if you will. Thers also a theory the whole thing was to get him into the "club"
Missed the most important sign at the very last scene. Where does the daughter go?....with a group of old men in blue. Clear as day. And Bill and Alice pay no mind as all Alice wants to do is "fuck".
Alice needs to cover for her recent pregnancy.
These old mens are the same actors we see at the party siting at a table near stairs
@@monsieursoze4859 Ahhhh! I didn't see that. There is so much in this film. Every time I watch it, it's a new experience.
It's not clear. There's no scene where she goes with them
@@paddyoddy literally last 30 seconds of the movie.
As the stroller goes, there is another apartment right next to dominos. It very well could be theirs, while strange it’s not inside; that’s a better spot than just in the middle of the hallway. It’s tucked away instead of being in the way.
very possible
Hate to say this but this wasn't very interesting or enlightening! You are really stretching for these theories to add up...not one of them was interesting or added value to the movie/story...especially the baby pram outside the door....?!?!?!? Or the newspaper being specially written for him to find...?? I thought the known theories covered Eyes Wide Shut quite well. It was Stanley's attempt at shedding light on the secret societies and how they operate. Being that this film was not edited by Stanley and had parts removed it seems futile to attempt to decode any messages when it isn't, strictly speaking, a pure, 100% Kubrick movie. So many parts could be misinterpreted due to the missing parts...
This video is the first, after Rob Agers content, that I can actually take seriously. You get what Kubrick is about and it's not about him but about his work. Well done.
It's not a Menorah unless it holds 8 candles (or, 8 plus 1 for lighting the others).
Alt title: 'Dr Bill Has a Weird Dream - Almost Getz AIDS, im HIV Positive', lol.
You can’t understand the movie if you don’t know about mind control and multiple personalities. Hints: The two girls in the creepy flat is the same girl. Yet, Cruise is both the doctor and red cloack, he just don’t know he is.
Cover of the movie is them in a mirror
Ahahahah ahahahah television crack head's LOLOL
@nexussymbiosis9270 what?
Movies and shows with a focus on sexual abuse often carry themes of split personalities and dissociative identy disorder. Twin peaks is all about that.
For being the Red Cloak, Bill has to be the Hungarian -Sandor Szavost- too.
One small thing, there is a NY Jets game going on in 2 scenes.Might be nothing but this is Kubrick.
Maybe a stand in for another major league "Jets"?
I’ve heard some theories that Bill is a metaphor for Stanley
there were 2 NY Jets in 2001
@TheJets9900 Username with jets talking about NY Jets? There is "I
He has parties with no food, just all the alcohol you want. Everyone ends up drunk on their ass. Crazy!!
That wasn't a menorah. It was a candelabra.
How is that decoration both Halloween and Christmas? I didnt see any eyes lol
wtf is a "5-branch menorah?" That's called a candelabra
Excellent video. I believe this movie is a puzzle with missing pieces, but these are great insights nevertheless.
Each rewatch spurs more theories and thoughts. Such a classic
Well, that's one theory but I see plenty of character development in Bill. He's not clueless as implied here- instead he is internally questioning every aspect of his life. Bill's quietly sensing a feeling of doom, his professional bland demeanor masking a brooding introspective psyche. He's playing simple when the reality is much deeper.
The paranoia of being watched when you're not. But their influence is everywhere reminding you.
I’ve been to apartments where people just leave their strollers next to/ under steps, so they wouldn’t have to lug it up and down steps.
Yennada solra
very good point
And then they killed Kubrick…
Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there, but Bill to me comes off as someone who isn't comfortable in his sexuality. I think it's more than his confidence. My first time viewing the film was just the other day and between the 6 Yale thugs, the Rainbow costume shop, and the way Bill and Nick look at each other.. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I think Bill's character is bisexual. And if he is, then that certainly would put a wedge between him and his wife Alice.
the other thing is - the Hollywood rumours that Tom Cruise is gay
Ah, great observation @@noklarok
@@Izzycentric you make a good point though, his eye contact with Nick, the way the hotel guy flirts with him, I'd not really thought about this. But I have often thought of the women in the movie as 'scarlet women' which is a kind of occult term for (red haired) women with special ways of 'opening' up men's sexuality.. a good example of this would be occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his (red-haired) girlfriend Marjorie Cameron who enlightned Jack by helping him accept his repressed bisexuality.
@@Izzycentric the more he tries to force himself to get comfortable with it, the worse it gets for him
Frederic Raphael, the screenwriter, wanted the Harfords to be Jewish but Kubrick was opposed to that idea, he preferred the Harfords as ‘vanilla’ Americans. Kubrick added that Bill should be a ‘Harrison Ford-ish goy’ - hence Har-ford.
HF is jewish
Harrison Ford-ish goy is ironic cuz Harrison Ford is still jewish
You sir are revolting.this content cannot be seen by the public. That being said. You have a new sub from amsterdam
and the 22 minutes missing are related to child sacrifice i believe
If you pause we're he's reading the article in the paper in sharkys there's an article on the left side about a city train shooting involving hostages and like 10-15 dead. So that's what the front page headline probably is about but I agree with you sir, that it's also about Bill and what he's gotten himself into
Mozart's Requiem is playing in the background.
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This Jewish heritage angle actually makes more connections. He is a doctor and will be allowed CLOSE to levers of power (in USA) but will never be part of the inner sanctum.
But they will be treated well and will have their spirituality. Their heritage.
Why the Christmas decor is only in the larger public area.
Alice is Passive Aggressive , when she asks Bill , " how she looks " , while peeing.... Bill didn't want to stare at her while peeing. She took it as an insult.
Because I read this in a magazine back in the 90s or earlier, I think the meaning of Bill walking into the bathroom while Alice is peeing is "The magic has gone out of their marriage." The hair comment may show loss of confidence, or it may be a vulgar joke directed to the men in the audience who are interested in watching Alice pee, seeing her underwear, and more.
Dude, a menorah has precisely nine candles. If it has any other number - it's not a menorah.
I don't consider all of those candle holders menorahs. LOL
@@jennicase they’re not. Menorahs have 9 branches total and are all lined up
Great movie. Great video. Thanks for the analysis. Always looking for new vids on this and VANILLA SKY.
Have you watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish movie, that Vanilla Sky is an English language remake of?
It has Penelope Cruz, in the same role, but is also different enough to be very enjoyable, on a much smaller budget.
@@CorbCorbin Got it on DVD. I must say even though I have it I haven't watched it as much as I probably should.
Vanilla Sky had a message of hope in the end though.
@@sarahelenatheoriginal709 True.
@@CorbCorbin
Yes they're both very good, in different ways.
The problem with your theory is, that I don't think you know what a menorah is, what it's for or what they look like. They're never 5 branched - that's a candlabra - and they're never uneven hights. Something I'm sure Kubrick knew.
That's why he mentioned the kabbalh or Jewish mysticism. Perhaps the 5 and 7 relate to particular parts of the tree of life or their life paths.
@@nojuanatall3281 yes, but not what I was addressing, he was calling a candlabra a menorah. They are not the same nor are they connected outside of the function of holding candles.
It looks like a menorah and got the message across
@@Nozarks1 which one are you talking about? There were several different candle holders. Perhaps you're not familier with what a menorah look like, they have 7 branches all in a row with one odd fellow off the center holder. The menorah is used to celebrate Chanukkah, the Festival of Lights, as a memorial to the rebuilding of the Temple. The odd fellow represents the single oil lamp that remained lit for seven days and all other candles are lit from. So you see, they cannot be five branched or nine branched, or be uneven in hight.
My issue is not with the movie, it's with the presentor's misrepresentation and understanding of what a menorah is.
For the record, I'm not Jewish.
@@Nozarks1 thats like saying a Lexus is Mitsubishi symbolism
Baesd on a much worse true story.
Which one?
16:11. Not a menorah. It has a central candle with four candles around it. There was one at my parents house when I was a kid. Is it called a candelabra? Still could be kabbalah significant. e.g. Tree of life in "solid form" (3D)
Jeffrey Epstein and Eyes Wide Shut Movie!!! (1999)
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell featuring from the beggining of the scene till Alice goes to the toilet!!!
Way toooooooo coincidential ain't it!!!
Good analysis!
All art, especially film when that rare occurrence when genius directors are given complete control, are ultimately about the director.
Kubrick was so smart and complex that his films are infinitely interesting.
And a rorshack test of what you are about NOW.
2001 now is a completely different
experience than when I saw it at age 12 in 1975.
You'll never see the same Kubrick movie twice.
Genius.
Rorshach - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
@@thorn262 at least it didn't autocorrect to Horshack!
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you missed the "rainbow" disguise shop, run a by a Russian, with two oriental "clients", and a certain daughter...much to digest there...
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The stroller was used as a shopping cart or something to carry stuff back-and-forth with
I always was so disgusted how bills wife acted at the Christmas party. She basically was giving herself to that “austrian”. Then went home to tell him about the time she fantasized about a naval officer. This movie says lots about women…. Especially nowadays
@@earlycuyler4019 Hungarian
@@YokaiX Hungarian, my bad.
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in the masks scene one of the red faced mask is TRUMP, one of them is EPSTEIN ;) i think you get
Stanley Kubrick was such a genius, he bordered insanity
Very cool video but there are two ads per section which makes it 16 ads in a less than 20 minute video. Its just so incredibly annoying.
Bible says
"Let shuffle they heads for they dont know what ones are sayng to the the others "
More or less that, was in old statement about the languages.
Some movies dont have meaning. And we talk about kubrick he is indead a Master of movies without meaning 🤔🤣
A NYC Physician who makes house calls but only has two appointments, I’m starting to think he’s an ambitious but not very skilled Doctor.
@@TobeWilsonNetwork idk, his rich house call clientele trusts him enough. I don’t think they’re the kinds of people who would trust just any doctor.
a menorah you say ? That's just Kubrick celebrating diversity
Bill mixes the 2 places the Party and the House in his last scene with Ziegler.
There's a towel in Zeigler's bathroom folded in the resemblance of a masonic apron.
in the original script those young goons shouted anti sematic slurs at bill but kubrick removed the slurs.
Questioning Bill's masculinity is the whole point of this movie. When the receptionist hands Bill his mail and says "Your mail", you can interpret that as "You're male?"
Such a great film.
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1:35 In Victor's bathroom the hanging green towels are folded to form the Masonic apron
Domino's purple jacket in the apartment...
The subtext of the sign at Sharky's curiously says "thank you for your custom." A play on the word "costume" ?