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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
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Die
größere Liebe trägt uns. (Stanley Kubrick: Eyes wide shut), Hbr
8,8b-12, Entwurf für eine Aschermittwochs-Predigt,
Pater Martin Löwenstein SJ |
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"The Dharma Blues,"
Robert Castle, Journal of Religion and Film. |
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Looking Closer, review by Jeffrey Overstreet, "searching for truth, beauty
and meaning in the movies." |
| Movie
Parables review. |
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"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. |
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| Dreams
| Alice's dream about her sexuality and her husband. |
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| 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. |
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| Redemption
| "Stop. I am ready to redeem him." (DVD
Chapter 22) |
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| Seeing/Not Seeing
| Intimacy/distance themes throughout movie - people
wearing masks of various kinds, seeing and yet not seeing each
other. |
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| Truth/Truthfulness
| Alice's confessions to her husband were the truth,
but did not promote intimacy or communication between them.
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