Eyes Wide Shut and the Meaning of Christmas

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Tom Cruise Eyes Wide Shut — In this video essay, we analyze Kubrick's vision for his final film through the eyes of Santa Clause.

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IS TOM CRUISE GETTING COAL FOR CHRISTMAS?

We here at StudioBinder like to have fun, but for this year's Christmas video we're not laughing. Using a rigid formal analysis, we dissect Kubrick's final masterpiece through the empirical lens of Santa Clause's naughty or nice list. After analyzing hundreds of thousands of micro-decisions and interviewing countless experts in the field, we get to the bottom of the central question in Eyes Wide Shut: would Bill Harford get coal for Christmas?

EYES WIDE SHUT EXPLAINED

Stanley Kubrick wrestled over how to approach Eyes Wide Shut for years. Watching the final product, it is clear that Kubrick's final film has one primary concern: the yuletide dichotomy of naughty and nice. What makes a person naughty? What makes them nice? These philosophical debates, as old as Kris Kringle himself, have led some of the greatest minds in human history into logical quagmires from which there is seemingly no escape (see Nietzsche, Kant). Kubrick deftly avoids providing a clear answer, but using state-of-the-art tools and time-tested methodologies, StudioBinder has solved the quandary as it relates to Bill Harford.

THE DEFINITIVE EYES WIDE SHUT INTERPRETATION

Taking a Hegelian dialectical approach to the material, we find that the protagonist of Eyes Wide Shut exists at the synthesis of the "Nice" thesis and "Naughty" antithesis. This conclusion was arrived at through a frame-by-frame analysis that was run through an advanced AI software developed for the project by feeding it millions of naughty and nice scenarios.

We hope you enjoy our video, which cost nearly $25 million to produce. It's a small price to pay for an answer to the question which has loomed over generations.


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♬ SONGS USED:

"Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale)" - Dominic Harlan
"Cosmos" - Theatre Of Delays
"Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies" - Tchaikovsky
"Oscillating Form" - Charlie Ryan
"Outer Limits" - Theatre of Delays
"The Murder" - Bernard Herrmann
"Mary Jane" - Rick James
"The Present" - Roie Shpigler
"True" - Spandau Ballet
"Distant Worlds" - Theatre Of Delays
"Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale) (Reprise)" - Dominic Harlan
"Christmas Wonderland" - SPACETRAIN UNLIMITED
"Under Spell" - Semo

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