If it is vague, then how can it also be 'clear'? In a case like that a pwerson would go through the various possibilities in his mind, but he was kinda busy. I never said Bill recognized him.we get to recognize him when > we study it. WebThe bodies of more completely nude masked women assail Bills voyeuristic eyes (and those of the audience). <<<<<<<<<<<>. The goal of yoga practice was to STOP all that useless babble---because that is how a person actually makes the breakthrough to see reality as it is. EWS was potential. 1. >, but, besides that you're> not bothering, even, to use them correctly, the way that you are using them> serves to obfuscate rather than clarify your meaning. But he still wasn't sure after reading the news story, or even aftervisiting the morgue, as his disbelief at Ziegler's explanationindicated. >He also must have recognized> the voice, considering that her voice is somewhat deep and throaty with a> tinge of distinctive accent. NG was :>the realization of that potential. This is Eyes Wide Shut revisited. It's totally clear the "party' in this reference, is Somerton. He also must have recognized the voice, considering that her voice is somewhat deep and throaty with a tinge of distinctive accent. Even though much was 'cleared" up there are still major mysteries here that unless they are encoded in single frames for analyssis will alwasy be a mystery. Put on some headphones and listen. The (unnamed) woman in the mask who warns Doctor Cruise is the same woman who ends up dead in the morgue. He may literally have to go underground, or to the moon, etc. There's also search enginessuch as Google where you can search for information. He only ultimately accepts Ziegler's account because itgives him a convenient alibi (as well as because of Ziegler's powerfulposition - Bill is Ziegler's man, obeying his orders, subscribing tothe demands and realities of Ziegler's world). Why would he demand that she take offher mask if this were so? As 1999 approached, what little was known about Eyes Wide Shut was almost indecently tantalising. I don't think there were any other dreams, although the redpool table scene always seemed the most dreamlike to me. The woman who had tried to warn Bill intervenes and insists on redeeming him, at an undisclosed personal cost. It's profoundly, structurally, indeterminate >>> 1. so drugged out as to have been clearly incapable of making sense ofanything and 2. never actually spoke (just some unintelligiblemumbling),<<<. > Simply because we don't really know the extent of the "charade," from the > Illuminatii/Secret government etc, OR what SK really had in mind---to blow > our mind. Much as you often dream of people, in a distorted way, whom you met while awake. "Kelpzoidzl" wrote in message news:47881976$0$11015$4c36@roadrunner.com "Kelpzoidzl" wrote in message. Yes, and we could speculate even further: there are no dream sequenceswhatsoever in the film, Alice's story about the navel officer being arecollection of her past desires, not a portrayed dream as such atall. It was a > party nevertheless. Well thats all true, but of course that was SK making a masterpiece and one of the most amazing films ever made IMO. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Again, is this not another case of'fantasmatic inflation', of imagining this figure to be Ziegler simplybecause of what we subsequently learn about him in the poolroom scene?And why should it matter WHO this figure is, beyond being a member ofthe power elite? When we see the naked corpse's face from the overhead shot, at first it's hard to tell if it's really Mandy's face, because of the expression and the angle, her combed back hair etc. Her pubic hair is trimmed just like Mandy's Pubic hair. >Even in the morgue he still might not have been positive, but he replays >her voice in his head while looking over the body. > But the credits have Abigail Good as> "mysterious woman" and Julienne Davis as Mandy. i'm sure he knew that aaudiences would be sophisticated enough toexamine the bodies as bill is doing in the morgue. And isn't this the mistake that many of the film'scritics made, reading Ziegler's story as 'ruining' the mystery,desublimating the film's narrative by means of an all-neat-and-tidydenouement? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<. That is what she was" implying that her deathis of no consequence because of the low-status manner in which Zieglerchooses to define her (an identity created and perpetuated by theZieglers of the world in the first place), earlier confirmed by hisdesire to get the drugged-out Mandy out of his bathroom and house("Can we put some clothes on her and get her out of here?" Poor pitiful morons that we all are -thank Bog he's put off Nirvana for so long. It is odd that Bill would remember his patient he hadn't seen in at least a year, owned "Rainbow Fashions?" He's eventually discovered and forced to remove his mask but is saved from a bleak fate by another masked woman who tried to warn him to leave earlier. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<. because Bill didn't get to see him up close like the film > audience.>, > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Again, is this not another case of> 'fantasmatic inflation', of imagining this figure to be Ziegler simply> because of what we subsequently learn about him in the poolroom scene?> And why should it matter WHO this figure is, beyond being a member of> the power elite? But he can't know for sure (because she was> masked at Somerton).>, >> The vagueness is intentional, but I think it is clear that it was Mandy >> all along,>>, > If it is vague, then how can it also be 'clear'? He was a master ofthatslight of hand stuff. Every woman Bill meets in the film wants him, wants to be with him; Alice On Feb 26, 3:27 pm, "Avoid normal situations. The movie is based on the 1920's novella Dream Storyand Kubrick developed the project for decades, and once considered a slightly more comedic take with Steve Martin in the lead role. At what point do we decide whether Corpse Mandy's very slight, single frame, mini-wink and subsequent eye movement was intended? Statanic mass? ". Not only are they the REAL "anti-intellectuals," they were schizoid as hell and projected it onto the social mess, creating political gibberish, that has NO usefulness to anyone. Lets look at the basic plot of this film. Bill was not yet sure it was Mandy from the bathroom, till he happened to see the news story and saw the name "Amanda," then it started to come together. Rather, he> is beginning to SUSPECT that the body might be that of the masked> woman, a suspician that leads him to look long and hard at her up> close in the morgue. But that's not the half of it. Poor Clark. Are you suggesting that the people running Somerton would let the> women there know that there was an interloper? Eyes Wide Shut: What The Mask On The Pillow Means, Every Stanley Kubrick Movie Ranked, Worst To Best, The Shining: Why Stanley Kubrick Changed Stephen King's Story, Why Pirates of the Caribbean Producer Wants Johnny Depp Back, Chris Pratt Joins Luigi Actor To Troll Super Mario Bros. Movie Voice Critics. But I agree the way it is done is brilliant and it leaves all of us unsure of everything, opening up infinite possibilites as to what it all means. That would not be valuable or insightful speculation, but a totaldenial of most of what happens in the film (another variation of 'it'sall just a dream', everything being attributable to the delusions ofBill's mind, a denial of the world of social power, similar to sayingthat everything that happens to Jack Torrance in The Shining is all'in his mind'). But maybe he's just practicing forhis Boddhisatva qualification tests.- you know, the 'enlightening thegreat unwashed masses' thing. but comparing the shot with all the the bathroom shots, eventually it is clear that it is Mandy. As opposed to arborescent: two contrasting concepts central to muchphilosophical debate over the past few decades (see, for instance, thework of philosophers Deleuze and Guattari). Those critics of EWS must have been delerious. This is Eyes Wide Shut revisited. >Bill was not yet sure it was Mandy from the bathroom, till he happened to >see the news story and saw the name "Amanda," then it started to come >together. at the > ceremony/orgy. > certainly not by Bill) as a 'party. > So if instead, he replayed Alice's voice (or Ziegler's voice) this> would 'prove' that the body was that of Alice (or Ziegler)? But it isn't clear at all, and nobody in the film refers to the eventsat Somerton as a 'party.'<<<<<<<. If the woman in the mask had been the same woman as Mandy, you would have expected some recognition of that from Doctor Cruise. -- Steven L.Email: sdli@earthlinkNOSPAM.netRemove the NOSPAM before replying to me. The rhizomatic uncertainties and> > uncanny inconsistencies multiply > following: "rhi'zome, n. A rootlike stem under or along the ground,> ordinarily in a horizontal position, which usually sends out roots from> from its lower surface and leafy shoots from its upper surface. Perhaps Alice was already attending these rituals and this was a way to gently break in stuffy and repressed Bill to this new found club and part of his initiation. <<<<<<<<< >>>>>> described (and. > anything and 2. never actually spoke (just some unintelligible > mumbling),<<<, > No, she clearly says "sorry" to Zeigler when he says "you gave us a scare > kiddo" and then Bill asks her, "How are you feeling now Mandy?" >>>>>>>>>If this were really the> case, wouldn't Bill have recognised that voice when speaking to the> masked woman at Somerton, instead of asking her "Who are you?" '<<<<<<<<<<< I think it is clear he was > referring to the Somerton party. I am normally the last guy in the> world to criticize somebody for using big words. it is clearly the same voice as the "mysterious woman." But it is obvious from Kubrick's portrayal of Somerton that thewomen are there purely as sex-workers, are there toservice the inner sanctum of male patriarchy in the ritualized desire-space of the power elite at Somerton. Which all suggests that Ziegler didn't actually knowabout Bill's presence at Somerton until he removed his mask <<<<<<<<<<<<. I am normally the last guy in theworld to criticize somebody for using big words, but, besides that you'renot bothering, even, to use them correctly, the way that you are using themserves to obfuscate rather than clarify your meaning. >In a big crowd of masked> people, Zeigler (his eyes give away who he is). Changes within the building seem to lack that phone booth sense of urgency and drama. and she >> replies, "Better," and then when Bill says, "you are a very lucky girl," >> Mandy says, "I know." > People often don't make definitive connections between things at the > moment. Indeed, the film iscentrally concerned with the failure of a 'male-centric' andpatriarchal ideology to deal with female desire; and the narrativethrust of the film revolves around Bill's increasingly hopelessefforts to flee from (but also to copy and avenge) Alice's desire, adesire from which he is completely excluded, just as he is laterexcluded from the desire-space of the power-elite at Somerton. It's not like > he is going to voice all his thoughts.>>>, >> >>>>>> But which 'party' is Bill referring to? Technology has caught up with his disguises andcovers. After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. Web1-48 of 339 results for "Eyes Wide Shut Mask" RESULTS Price and other details may vary based on product size and color. A powerful man realizes one night that his wife has had not one but myriad Ha ha hah, ha ha hah! Ironically, that is just what power (and Ziegler)> would want you to believe - that the world of power and power elites> doesn't exist, is just all a charade anyway, that those who do> recognise the realities of social power and of desire are just> paranoid conspiracy nutters (when in fact it is those who> attribute all that occurs in the film to 'a dream' who are being> properly paranoid). > it is clearly the same voice as the "mysterious woman." Is that how youwould describe it? No comments. The masks worn in the Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene are from Venetian carnivals; a reputation of civil disorder, moral debauchery and ritualized eroticism. that Bill first makes this connection, or at least, hasit confirmed by someone else (Ziegler)", Ditto. People were dancing, there was music wearing costumes, and although > it was strange, calling it a "party," would not be unusual in the > slightest. I enjoy the > mystery entirely and will return to it over and over and could watch the > film again and again.>, >>>>>>>>>>>>> And if this firgure was Ziegler, why would he subsequently> send a naked masked woman over to Bill for his benefit? That is what she was" implying that her deathis of no consequence because of the low-status manner in which Zieglerchooses to define her (an identity created and perpetuated by theZieglers of the world in the first place), earlier confirmed by hisdesire to get the drugged-out Mandy out of his bathroom and house("Can we put some clothes on her and get her out of here?" Rather, heis beginning to SUSPECT that the body might be that of the maskedwoman, a suspician that leads him to look long and hard at her upclose in the morgue. Does anyone else sense the inspiration of the mask designs from the film Eyes Wide Shut? Tom Cruise in the Masked Ball ritual scene from Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Eyes Wide Shut with Jocelyn Pook's haunting score filling the temple. 0. She helps Bill at the From his meeting with Ziegler in the poolroom, it appears that Billhas been unclear about the identity of the woman in the morgue via-a-vis Mandy and the masked woman. >> If we speculate too far then we could say it was ALL a Charade.>>, >>>>>>>>>>>That would not be valuable or insightful speculation, but a total> denial of most of what happens in the film (another variation of 'it's> all just a dream', everything being attributable to the delusions of> Bill's mind, a denial of the world of social power, similar to saying> that everything that happens to Jack Torrance in The Shining is all> 'in his mind'). ANSWERS: 4. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/japanese-zen/. Even Ziegler only uses that wordin reference to his own earlier party, while referring to the Somertonrituals always more elusively: "I was there, at the House", "what ifwhat happened was a fake, a charade", etc, but no mention of any'party' at Somerton. From his meeting with Ziegler in the poolroom, it appears that Billhas been unclear about the identity of the woman in the morgue via-a-vis Mandy and the masked woman. > >>>>>> But which 'party' is Bill referring to? ", "Victor what can I say. Was she the women at the party?" Milich even tried to talk Bill into renting a more colorful costume. Apparently word of Bill's entry into the ceremony/orgy traveled fast. Masks - both literal and figurative - are a major motif, and one of the most important sequences is when Bill infiltrates a masked sex party at a remote mansion, which is being held by members of high society. The 'mystery' is how SHE knows that he is an interloper. But it isn't clear at all, and nobody in the film refers to the eventsat Somerton as a 'party.' Being "all a Charade," doesn't mean it was all a dream. And coming from the newsgroup'sresident acid-headed, solipsistic zombie. >>on the balcony looking down at Bill, knows that it is him and nodded to >>him. WebEyes Wide Shut Mask Woman - Etsy Browse a wide selection of eyes wide shut mask woman and face coverings available in various fabrics and configurations, made by a Bill has not made any definitive connection at that stage betweenMandy and the masked woman, only - at most - between Mandy and theAmanda from the news report, both of them having suffered drugoverdoses. The Daily Planet may go under too. Many of the nude women begin pairing up with the fully-clothed men, and the orgy begins in nearly full view. <<<<<<<<, > In the spur of the moment people might first recognize voices, > subliminally. I had absolutely no idea you were involved in any > way. If he wereZiegler, wouldn't he instead be going out of his way to privatelycommunicate with Bill, to get Bill out of Somerton as quickly aspossible in order to avoid any possible trouble (and as Zieglersubsequently admits, Bill's gate-crashing 'made me look like acomplete fool')? First of all, Mandy must have felt some connection with Bill since he was showing her concern and kindness in the Bathroom. Weve got a beautiful feminine version of the lead mask that features a baroque pattern and crystal embellishments, as well as a feathered mask similar to the In fact, the only actual dream in the film is unseen, is onlylater described - namely, Alice's dream/nightmare about having sexwith numerous men (strikingly similar to the fate of the women atSomerton) in which Bill is openly humiliated, and told to Bill justafer he returns from Somerton. > Well I hope you see now that this is clear after reading the dialogue. 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