Eyes Wide Shut - The Costume Shop Explained
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Analysis and review of Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick with a special scene analysis of the Costume Shop and Mr Millich . This is a fair use educational critique and review . Hope you like it ! My name is Shim , thank you .
00:00 Intro
00:34 Sonata
00:58 Arriving shop
01:46 The Rainbow
02:20 Drab Interior
02:58 The Back Room
03:16 Costumes & Lights
04:09 Millich Hears a Noise
04:26 The Bizarre Scene
05:19 The Mansion Party
05:44 Return the Costume
06:14 The Wizard of Oz
06:46 Connections
07:17 Start Sum Up
07:50 Sum Up
08:51 Wild Card
09:41 Thank You - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Seems CZcams put a glitch in the middle of my video - sorry - it was not there when I made it 😅
I've seen a good deal on this film, but not nearly enough on this scene. Big kudos for that!
I want to hear more from you, though. You make these connections, and I want to hear you follow through. IOW, what was the point of the connection? For example, you connect the light wall from the costume area and the party. Is he saying that the staircase leads upstairs to where the "tuxedos come off" and people get their "fantasy (costume) on"?
Something to keep in mind is that the shop advertises itself _first_ as "tuxedo rental," so that is not so unusual to keep the tuxes in front and the costumes in back. But this isn't to say that it is without significance. Aren't the characters presented as putting their "tuxedo selves" up front while keeping their "more exotic costumes" more hidden?
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I love how vulnerable Cruise's character is in this film.
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I get LOLITA vibes from that scene in the costume shop. Perhaps a call back to Kubrick's earlier movie. Very sleazy stuff.
Yeah , agreed - it's definitely a strange scene ! That part of it needs it's own video too
Interesting analysis. The Wizard of Oz comparison never occurred to me but it makes sense. "There's no place like home" does sum up the message of Eyes Wide Shut fairly well. The film ends with Bill and Alice irreversibly changed and damaged by the events of the story and the emotional trauma they've put each other through with their sexual misadventures and fantasies of infidelity, but in the end they decide to find a sort of forced solace in each other and their family unit. They both come to the "no place like home" conclusion but it's decidedly more bittersweet here than in Wizard of Oz.
Wow ,thank you for the great comment . Maybe one day I'll do another video just about the Wizard of Oz connections in this film.👍
@@kubricktheory237 Looking forward to it ✅🤩
Relaxed, confident (and perceptive) commentary on this part of the film. Dr. Bill has a number of jarring psycho-sexual experiences during his long, dark night of the soul. The costume shop is perhaps the sleaziest.
Totally agree. And do you agree that none of these as you said “ psycho sexual” experiences are ever satisfying? It’s like we feel for the guy because all his dark kind of revenge fantasies go bust and never feel satisfactory.
Well put my friend ! 👍
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Thank you so much ! ❤
Wow you just made me think of something…. Remember when Bill is at the party at the Ziegler’s and is walking with those 2 models and he says something like “ so exactly ladies where are we going… exactly?” And the one model says Don’t you want to go where the rainbow ends? The more I think of EWS I think all these events were pre-determined for Bill. As if it was all set up before hand. Everyone talks about the sex scenes at the party but I think you are onto the most compelling sequences in the movie the parts between the Sonata Cafe and the Costume Shop. Nick Knighengale and Millich to me anyway are what makes this movie a masterpiece. Hard to explain what I mean but I think some will agree. They are like a major part of his nocturnal voyage. Great video as always. I love this movie!
Wow , thank you so much for the kind words 😃 yes I know those 2 models mention " Where the rainbow ends " and I think you are right . There's definitely a lot of connections here between Eyes Wide Shut and the Wizard of Oz too in my opinion. I may do another video just about that . 👍
Me again... I just wanted to add that you are sooo smart Kubrick Theory, YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON so please keep on posting. Good luck my friend. 👏👏👏❤👌✊
Thank you , I definitely will keep posting 👍
Though it doesn't explain the "back room", the shop also rents tuxedos so that's what all those dark jackets are doing there.
Yes , true
thanks for another great video. I do believe that there is something about the Rainbow Costume shop that Kubrick is trying to tell us. But it is really hard to figure out🤔 The back room, the Asian businessmen, the peculiar behavior of the owner. And most especially how the whole situation resolves itself and changes completely the next day when Dr. Bill returns the costume. Something very weird is going on. Is it a metaphor for the REAL WORLD: regular boring black suits are showcased on the outside but if you have the "right password" or network or social circles, you get to access to the back room with all the colorful weird costumes and the freaky fun that comes with it??? idk
I like your idea , that is definitely possible 👍
The costume shop IS closed when Bill gets there. He gets Millich out of bed, he is wearing a bathrobe. Bill has to offer to pay two hundred dollars over the rental price to get let in.The name of the store is Rainbow Fashions.Bill says: "Are you the present owner of Rainbow Fashions?" and what does Millich say? "Yes, I am."
It is technically closed - but yet there are people in the back room . It's still strange the owner would even answer the door at 1 in the morning .
@@kubricktheory237 The people in the back room are not renting costumes. They are breaking the law. One is hiding in the closet when we first see him.
@@kubricktheory237 We know things are strange in this movie. Bill has to talk his way through some locked doors and get into places that would be closed to him throughout the movie. This is a common situation in movies.
@@watermelonlalala yes true
@@kubricktheory237 So, what did you really think about this scene, besides "it's strange"?
The entire notion of the world being a series of facades with secret menus is honestly the point. Between the bodies and the buildings we are pretending there is anything between us and our animal instincts.
What if they just wanted to use the same lights for both scenes just to save the budget ?
the film takes place in New York yet they built an elaborate set in England replicating the streets of New York because Kubrick didn’t want to board an airplane. does that sound like something you would do to stretch a film’s budget?
"Rainbow" is metaphor for the elimination of borders/limits. It's the very same symbolism used by the LGBTQ+ movement.
I like the content of the video but you need to practice your narration voice or hire a voice actor. The way you’re reading it is so stiff and robotic. Hard to listen to. Try speaking more naturally. Good video besides that.
I prefer that than a robot