I just came across this short essay on one of my favorite Kubrick films, Eyes Wide Shut. Too often panned, misunderstood, or just not considered, Eyes Wide Shut, is a labyrinthian journey through the deepest mysteries of human experience, it’s an adult-themed fairy tale in the tradition of Grimm that continues it’s kaleidescopic still-life of the human mind, in richer and richer complexities, after each subsequent viewing.

This also reminded me of a series of internet ramblings attempting to tie Eyes Wide Shut to Illuminati world governance and Mind Control. These essays (and there are a ton others to be googled) are fun afternoon reading for those who, like me, enjoy a study of people’s whose compulsion for myopic answers is only outweighed by their inability to comprehend art on a mytho/symbolic/non-literal level.

No doubt there are terrible experiments being played on the mind’s of hapless victims of all ages, sexes, and nationalities, but I have a hard time believing that someone who can’t manage to present their findings on a web page with less than a 20pt font is hot on the case. But perhaps that’s techno-bigotry (and right).