Stanley Kubrick was the Leonardo da Vinci of the film arts

Also, "Fidelio" (the password to the secret party) is a Beethoven opera that translates to "The Triumph of Marital Love"...now that's a detail to keep your eye on. There seems to be a debate over if this movie is about secret societies or personal relationships; I have to say it's about both.

You missed the sign on the stairway wall as Tom Cruise was entering the Sonata Cafe. The sign read "All Exits Are Final" indicating the sinister nature of the group of people he was becoming involved with and their terminal way of dealing with anyone who has knowledge of their activities and is willing to leave the group or expose them.

The man who dances with Alice drinks from her glass and later asks her if she has read The art of love by Ovid. In the book Ovid mentions that one should drink from the same cup as of the womans which he wants to attract.

this has to be one of the creepiest movies in modern times.. it delves into the kind of subconscious fears that many of us have but would rather not face or even think of. Kubrick was a true master of cinematic art..

Kubrick died just six days after the screening of this movie.Maybe, he really wanted to say something what's going on in Hollywood and the elite circle.

I was involved with the filming of this movie, the location was not Mentmore Towers (not the interior anyway) ,  you got that wrong, the interior scenes for the "Masked Ball" were all filmed at Elveden Hall Suffolk, I spent weeks there with Mr Kubrick religiously going over and over and OVER the scenes - you just wouldnt believe it! It was filmed in 1997 (at least the scenes I was in were) but the movie wasnt completed until almost 1999 as Stanley Kubrick was such a perfectionist, in fact from what I witnessed, Perfectionist doesn't even come close! He also made us all work American time , so we had to work from 2 or 3 pm in the afternoon - which was his mornings (9am approx in USA) to about 3am (9pm in the states) He got what he wanted and if you didnt want to do it there was plenty who wanted the gig! I drove home from wardrobe dept many times at 4am blurry eyed,  not wide eyes  shut! I will never forget that time in my life ever, mustve watched the orgy scene about 1,000 times and I'm really not joking, 3 weeks to film one scene, I can see why movie took 2 years to make!

Anyone noticed when Bill read the article in the paper about Mandy’s death, (02:05:50) into film run time?  They emphasized the same sentence twice. “ She has many important friends in the fashion and entertainment worlds. She has many important friends in the fashion and entertainment worlds and she believed she’d break through in the end. It was only a matter of time.” That one works well for those who believe the fashion and entertainment industries engage in this behavior while  committing blood sacrifices and passing off murders as drug overdoses and other untimely deaths.

It's Kubrick - everything's deliberate!

First shot of the film is Alice languorously stripping off a sleeve, open-backed evening dress. Cut to black. Next, Bill fixing cuffs, dinner suit. Alice on the loo, in a different black evening dress, long lace sleeves covering arms. My theory is the first shot is Alice returning, on her own, from a sex party. She is already in the cult. Everything that happens after is designed to screw Bill up so badly, he will be in no condition to entertain the idea his wife groomed and handed over their daughter to the cult.

The mask that he says looks like a dollar bill actually looks like a Picasso painting...

I think my favorite thing was that the song at the cult is literly a Romanian church song

Good one as always. Kubrick's attention to detail is mind-boggling.

It's hilarious how much money Bill winds up wasting and spending during his night odyssey.
Another reason why Kidman reminds him where his wallet is.  He will need it.  Also the girl who wants to run off with him looks just like Nicole Kidman - uncanny.

Another significant symbol is the Inanna star in the background at 06:24 According to Sumerian clay tablets, Inanna (Ishtar in Akkad and Babylon) was the granddaughter of Enlil and the lover of Dumuzi (Tammuz in Akkad and Babylon). The eight pointed star is the star of Inannna, also associated with the planet Venus. According to the story of the clay tablets, after the death of her lover, Dumuzi, Inanna lured young warriors in her bed and sacrificed them (interesting correlation with the rituals hinted at in the movie).

Truely a movie you can watch over and over for details

The prop people in Eyes Wide Shut really did their homework.

The neighborhood where Domino lives is a stand in for New York’s Greenwich Village (we simply call it the Village). The Pink Pussycat sign that Bill passes is specifically a Pink Pussycat Boutique sign which is an actual sex toy and novelty shop that has been located in the Village for decades. I worked there briefly about 30 years ago, and because the Village had lots of restaurants, cafes, and weird funky shops, the Pink Pussycat would get jam packed with spillover crowds and we’d crank up the music as if it were an actual night club itself.

also the newspaper he bought when that guy was following him , the front page there was a big line that says " LUCKY TO BE ALIVE "

2:08 I remembered watching an interview with Leo Zagami along with the actress and model Julienne Davis., who played the naked woman that warned the protagonist and helped him because he helped her. I remembered that she said that the model who was the actress being banged cried a lot afterward.

My favourite example in your video is how the dialogue came from all the street signs. I remember when I was a teen talking to my friend in a parked car and she got the name of a guy wrong, and she got the name from a sign behind her head. It was so bizarre, she didn't even realize she did so until I said it outloud.

Kubrick's movies are like pattern recognition porn or something. Thanks for uploading the second part for free!