EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)—Thus Spoke Stanley Kubrick (Part II)

**REPOST** On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists continue to present Stanley Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999). 

***THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO PART EPISODE***

Deep Dives Include: production history; comparisons with the film’s “Dream Story” (1926) novella source material ; the Gustav Klimt color pallet; the meaning behind those neon Eros/Thanatos street signs; secret societies and other occult inspirations (from the Freemasons, to the Illuminati, Hellfire clubs, and Alister Crowley); Ovid’s Art of Love; what it means to “reach the end of the rainbow”; and how the film’s seemingly abrupt and hollow end comes straight from Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”....

Episode Safeword(s): “the morning after” 

(REPOSTED Episode from 2021 that traveled over from the old Anchor platform with a broken link).