Going their separate ways, Bill and Alice faced temptation. Alice meets a man named Sandor Szavost who asks her about Ovid’s Art of Love.VC mentions on his article “This series of books, written during the times of Ancient Rome, was essentially a “How to Cheat on Your Partner” guide, and was popular with the elite of the time. The first book opens with an invocation to Venus – the planet esoterically associated with lust. Interestingly enough, Ishtar (and her equivalents in other Semetic cultures) was considered to be the personification of Venus. Sandor’s name might be a reference to the founder of the Church of Satan: Anton Szandor Lavey. Is this Kubrick’s way of saying that this man, who urges Alice to cheat on her husband, is a part of the occult elite and its decadent ways? The Hungarian man is apparently skilled in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) as he nearly hypnotizes Alice with well calculated phrases about the futility of married life and the necessity of pursuing pleasure.”
Rainbows and multicolored lights appear throughout the movie, from the beginning to the end. Even the name of the store where Bill rents his costume is called” Rainbow” As if to emphasize the theme of multicolored rainbows, almost every scene in the movie contains multicolored Christmas lights, giving most sets a hazy, dreamy glow. These lights tie together most scenes of the movie, making them part of the same reality. There are however a few select scenes where there are absolutely no Christmas lights. The main one is Somerton palace – the place where the secret society ritual takes place.
There are two different worlds in EWS. The Christmas lights-filled “rainbow world” and the other world “where the rainbow ends”, where the elite gathers and performs its rituals. The contrast between the two worlds gives a sense of an almost insurmountable divide between them. So, when the models ask Bill the go “where the rainbow ends”, they probably refer to going “where the elite gathers and performs rituals”. When Bill’s flirting with the models is interrupted when Ziegler calls him to his bathroom, we get a first glance of “where the rainbow ends” and the dark truth about the elite starts.