You are standing in a great hall filled with black cloaked and masked figures. The lighting is dim and the music is a low monk-like hum. You observe everyone is focused on the center of the room. Here 10 masked women wearing only underwear stand in a circle, their cloaks at their feet. Presiding over them in the center of the circle with a large incense burner is a lone masked figure in a red cloak. The figure in red, a high priest, dispatches each woman one at a time to seek her next lover from the crowd. No words are spoken; the woman selects a man from the vast crowd by exchanging a masked kiss and stands beside him. They wait for the high priest to conclude the ceremony then seek out a location in the mansion to engage in uninhibited carnal pleasures.
Eyes Wide Shut (EWS) SummaryEyes Wide Shut is a 1999 movie by Stanley Kubrick based on a short story from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 book, Traumnovelle, entitled Dream Story.