Sunday, September 1, 2013

Eyes Wide Shut analysis - part 6: A basic explanation of the hidden plot



Earlier in the analysis, it was stated that there is a 'hidden plot' in Eyes Wide Shut whereby Bill Harford is being 'led' through the events we see him experience, that at least some of his experiences are dream-, drug-, and/or trance-induced, and that the purpose of having him undergo these events is to 'condition' him so that he comes to associate philandering with trouble and death, so that he will remain under his wife's full control. This hidden plot is explained in more detail below.



    

    

Top left: When the movie starts, Alice, here shown dancing with a man at Victor Ziegler's party, has already been suspecting for quite some time that Bill might be considering being unfaithful to her. Therefore, she has worked out a plan with Victor whereby Bill is to be set up to undergo a series of experiences that will 'teach him a lesson'. We, the audience, are effectively 'dropped into' this preexisting situation at the beginning of the film. Alice sees Bill appearing as if he might cheat on her at the party, with two young women he has met there. Alice knows Victor is going to have Bill brought up to his bedroom. Top right: Bill, accompanied by the aforementioned two women, gets the call-out to go to Victor's bedroom. Bill doesn't know that he is being led along. Above left: In Victor's room, a situation has been set up whereby it appears to Bill, as if Victor has been having sex with a high-end prostitute who has now passed out from drug use. Thus, we see that right from the start of the carrying out of Victor and Alice's plan, Bill is to associate philandering with trouble. Above right: After the (supposed) prostitute who was in Victor's room has been 'rescued', and Bill and Alice get home from the party, they both get high, then Alice sets Bill off with her tale of sexually desiring a naval officer she once saw, how she was willing to give up everything to be with this stranger. Alice telling Bill this functions as a lead-in to the rest of her and Victor's planned sequence of events. After this point, almost everything we see happen to Bill is 'induced' upon him while he's under the influence of drugs, or in some other trance-like state.



    

    

Top left and right: The situation with Marion is a set-up, in the sense that Marion offering herself to Bill is intended to lead him to associate cheating with desperate, unstable women with death (Marion's father, lying on the bed, has just died). Above left: 'Domino' (the woman at the door in this shot) is someone Victor has hired (through other people) to help with the plan to lead Bill along. The indications that she's not a real prostitute include the fact that she doesn't require money from Bill upfront. Note that Domino's dress is purple in color; purple is obtained by mixing red with blue. Earlier in the analysis, it was described that red is used in the film to represent 'Satanic' forces, i.e., evil elite Jews, and that blue represents the 'evil feminine'. Above right: Later in the movie, when Domino's roommate comes on to Bill, then tells him that Domino has been found to be HIV positive, an association between risky sex and disease is created in Bill's mind.



    

Above left: This situation with the costume store owner's teenage daughter and two strange men, has as its purpose to make Bill averse to considering having sex with underage females, and also to make him averse to having 'kinky' sex (note that one of the men in this scene at the store, is wearing a woman's wig). Above right: This hotel clerk behaves in an overtly 'gay' manner while interacting with Bill, leading Bill to see sex with other men in a negative light too.



    

    

Top left: Nick is to lead Bill to the ceremony at Somerton. Top right: Bill, a newcomer to Somerton, is allowed to walk unimpeded throughout the mansion (wearing a mask, as shown), and observe the orgiastic and other strange goings-on. Subsequently, Mandy, the woman who earlier 'played' the prostitute at Victor Ziegler's party, appears to 'save' Bill from being punished at the ritual at the mansion by sacrificing herself, and before Bill leaves, he is given a stern warning not to tell anyone about the things he has seen there. Above left: Later, Bill returns to the Somerton mansion with the intention of investigating what went on during his earlier visit there. However, he can't get past the entrance gate, and he gets his second and final warning to forget what he saw there earlier. The man delivering the warning note to Bill already knew that Bill was to show up at the mansion on the day that he did. The point is that all the things at Somerton have been prearranged, to create a 'loose sex'-danger association deep within Bill's psyche. Above right: The contents of the warning note given to Bill.



        

    

Top left: Not only does the death of Mandy (whose body is shown here lying in a morgue) indicate that Victor is having the co-participants killed off after they've done their part in helping to lead Bill along, but it also re-enforces the infidelity-death link in Bill's mind. Top right: This man, who has been following Bill, has been instructed to make his presence known to Bill at the point shown. Above left: Victor admits to Bill that the ritual was a staged event. Victor pretends not to know the exact fate of Nick, who has, in fact, been done away with, like the others, so that there won't be any witnesses as to what the elite, such as Victor, are capable of. The fact that the pool table in this scene is red, symbolizes that Ziegler himself is an evil elite Jew. Above right: As planned, Bill breaks down in the end and tells his wife everything, and is from this point onward completely under her control.

The whole series of events depicted above, taken together, is meant to convey to the film's audience the idea, that some women deceive and manipulate men in order to control them, and also, to get across the idea that certain evil elite Jews have ordinary people under their control.









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