But there is no such thing as secret societies........................or alien vampires..........or robots that look and act just like human beings...........................



If you’ve taken a film analysis course in your lifetime, you know that a movie is never just a movie, and that every aspect of a film is carefully selected and placed into each frame for a specific reason. While I’m not so sure that this theory holds up for films like, I don’t know, Troll 2, I do know that acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick didn’t take the craft of filmmaking lightly. The man behind films like the forever-analyzed The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange was a meticulous director — nothing showed up in his work “accidentally.” His final film, Eyes Wide Shut, is quite possibly his most elaborately staged film — which left some viewers to believe that it had a very specific message. Could Kubrick’s last film — he died only six days after seeing the final cut — be a message about the Illuminati?
Before we dive into that can of worms, let’s look at the plot of Eyes Wide Shut. Eyes Wide Shut tells the story of Bill and Alice Harford, a married couple living in New York City. After Alice reveals to Bill that she had a dream about having an affair with another man, Bill decides to explore his own sexual freedom. He learns of a secret party where guests need a password and a mask to get in. When he arrives, he discovers that the party is actually a secret sexual ritual, complete with Venetian masks and a whole bunch of naked people. After a series of events, Bill arrives home, guilt-ridden for hiding his voyeuristic adventure from his wife and confused about what he’s just witnessed.