Understanding Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut may be his most misunderstood film. When they first watch the film, many people are perplexed, sometimes bored, almost always wondering "just what is going on?"

In this book, compiled from numerous posts on the USENET newsgroup devoted to Stanley Kubrick, you'll find your answer. Numerous symbolic references, inter-textual hooks to Stanley Kubrick's other movies, tricks with numbers and codes, visual and linguistic puns, and much more, a veritable treasure chest of semiotic techniques. They're all here . . .