"Eyes Wide Shut"

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To identify the salient issues with which this writer agrees and disagrees, this paper provides a personal analysis of sexuality, a summary of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," and how the respective characters resolved their sexual problems. This is followed by a discussion of some personal solutions to the sexual dilemmas identified in "Eyes Wide Shut". A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.

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"Humorists have made a fortune through the centuries writing about sex because, well, people frequently do stupid things when it comes to fulfilling their biological urges. When director Stanley Kubrick completed his movie adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle, a 1926 narrative set, many observers expected to enjoy a picture that equaled his other masterpieces such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. The movie's release in the summer of 1999 featured Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, with a Schnitzler-inspired screenplay co-authored by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael caused a brief surge of popular interest in Traumnovelle (Williamson 2001). Kubrick's movie captures the fundamental plot line of Schnitzler's novella wherein a young doctor, his confidence destroyed by his wife's confession of erotic fantasies, experiences his own exploits through the night."

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