Episode 3: Eyes Wide Shut

1999's Eyes Wide Shut  was Stanley Kubrick's final film. The movie itself is odd and contains a creepy occult ritual on an estate. No wonder it's been the subject of conspiracy theories.

But are these just koo-koo, outlandish ideas or was Kubrick trying to tell us something?

⚠️ Spoilers are contained in this episode!

Links:

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MYXAY85?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks

https://therake.com/stories/party-animals-the-rothschild-surrealist-ball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentmore_Towers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-463166/The-tycoon-Taki-hell-party.html

https://www.france24.com/en/20150210-libertine-strauss-kahn-admits-orgies-denies-prostitutes

https://listverse.com/2020/10/12/top-10-creepy-controversies-around-eyes-wide-shut/

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

Welcome to con-sara-cy theories. Are you ready to ask questions you shouldn't and find information you're not supposed to know? Well, you're in the right place. Here is your host, Sara Causey.

Hello, Hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut. In order to do that, there's no way around spoilers. Now the film came out in 1999. But if somehow you still have not seen it, and you want to see it, I don't want to spoil anything for you. I'd rather that you watch it if you want to watch it, draw your own conclusions, and then come back to this episode at a later date after you've processed it because it is a very weird, long, strange film. In order to get into not only the details of the film, but the various conspiracy theories around the film, we'll have to get into spoilers. So this is fair warning that we're going there would be a good opportunity now to turn this episode off, if that's not something that you want to do. In the meantime, I'm gonna pour myself up a nice ginger ale sit here and get ready to do this. So let's saddle up and take the ride. A bit of backstory. I remember going to see this film in 1999 in the theater when it first came out. I also remember a lot of the hype around it. Oh, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise are married in real life. And so this is like a weird voyeuristic opportunity to see the two of them and intimate states. And it was really marketed at that time, like an erotic thriller, murder mystery type movie. And I even went back before I recorded this episode and watch the original trailer. And if you think about the way that it's being marketed with the two of them kissing and Chris Isaac singing baby did a bad bad thing in the background. That's really the conclusion that you come to. I had worked all day That day, I was very tired. So the guy that was my boyfriend at the time, he and I went to the theater went and had dinner first. And then we went to the theater and it was already a late showing. And the film was quite long. So by the time we got out of the theater, it was probably one or two o'clock in the morning. And I just remember we both looked at each other on the parking lot as we were walking back to the car like what the hell did we just watch? What even was that neither one of us liked it. Neither one of us felt like we got the point of it. It was just weird. So fast forward in time. 1213 years later, in a similar milieu. I had come home from work, I'd worked all week. I was dog tired, had been to the grocery store and gotten a few things. And I thought I just want to sit down. I once I get in this recliner, I don't want to get up again until it's bedtime. I have had enough. And the house I was living in at that time, it had an open floor plan. So it was like at the front door. There was no entryway or foyer you just walked in and you were there. And so there was this sort of square of living room, dining area and kitchen. I bring that up for a reason which I'll get to in a second. I sat down in the easy chair and I got comfortable. I'm like God, I don't want to get up. So I started going through the program guide to see what was on Well, pretty much nothing. And I noticed that one of the movie channels was about to show Eyes Wide Shut and I thought I don't want to get up. I don't want to rifle through my DVDs and see what I might have. Otherwise, I'll just watch this. I'm already here. I'm sat down uncomfortable. I don't want to get up. So I really watched it by default. And holy shit. It unnerved me terribly. The reason why I bring up the measles scene of the room is because every time a moth or some other bug would fly up against the porch light and cast a shadow I would get freaked out. I didn't sleep very well that night, because I felt like I finally got it. When I went to the theater and 99 I didn't get it because I was expecting erotic thriller murder mystery type film. I wasn't expecting some kind of psychological mind f this time around going into it with no expectations just being sat in the easy chair like whatever at least I don't have to get up. I was astounded by the film and it it genuinely freaked me out. So I have watched it a couple more times since then. And it never fails to give me a creepy feeling. Like I'm I'm watching something that I really shouldn't be watching when I'm watching Bill and Al is it just? Yeah, I find it disturbing. For me it's it's similar in some respects to Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. I mean, Stephen King's novel version of The Shining is pretty different in some real material aspects from the way that Kubrick turns the shining the film, I actually for my money, and I may get hate mail for this, I know how to hit the delete button. I actually find Kubrick's film version of The Shining more terrifying than Stephen King's novel version. That could be its own episode, but wow, Eyes Wide Shut gives me the creeps. So I'll try to give a quick rundown a quick synopsis before we start jumping into the conspiracy theories around the film. are they true? Are they not? Are some of them accurate? Do some seem really far fetched? So I don't want to get into a complete rehash of the film. But I think it's necessary to refresh our memories. So the movie opens up, basically, with just what I would call some gratuitous nudity. It just almost appears to be an excuse for us to see Nicole Kidman is bare bottom. I know there are some people that say well, there's meaning to that scene because of the columns and all of that, maybe so and we'll get there but for my money, it just seems like an excuse to see Nicole Kidman in a state of undress. And Nicole Kidman plays this woman named Alice and she is married to Tom Cruise, who is Bill Hartford. Bill is a doctor and Alice is unemployed because she had been working at an art gallery that apparently went bankrupt. So at the moment, she's not working anywhere. And they have a little daughter named Helena. And the beginning of the film is Bill and Alice getting ready to go to a party that's being hosted by Victor Ziegler. And Victor is apparently a patient of bills. They get along well enough that every year Victor invites bill and Alice to come to his party. And something I noticed this most recent rewatching that I did of the film, in order to sit down and record this episode, I caught something that I hadn't caught before. I feel like this is another indication of interesting filmmaking. When you can watch a particular movie and get something different out of it or pick up some nuance that you missed the time before. I noticed that Alice makes the comment to bill before they leave the house. They finally she's dressed and she's satisfied with how she looks and all of that. She says to Bill, did you leave the phony pager numbers on the fridge? phony? So it's like, wherever they're going at this party, they must not want to be disturbed, because they're not worried about the babysitter having accurate contact information for them at this party, and that just struck me as being so weird. Did you did you leave the phony pager number, like you don't want the babysitter to have a way to get a hold of you for real in case your kid like chokes to death, or there's a fire in the building. I found that to be really weird. There's something something odd about that line. So they go to this party. And it's absolutely dripping with weird lights and weird stars and weird fixtures. It's not really like any traditional Christmas or holiday party type of decorations that you would normally see. And the party is like, instead of sex, drugs and rock and roll, it's like sex drugs and orchestra music. And as Bill and Alice are dancing, she asks him, do you know anybody here? He says no. But as it turns out, he knows the piano player. And it's a guy named Nick that he had gone to medical school with, except that Nick dropped out and didn't finish. So now he's a professional or semi professional pianist. At the set break, he and Bill strike up a conversation and it's the typical backslap and how the hell are you? Where are you been? How's life? Well, they barely even get into it before someone calls Nick away. But he makes mention to bill that there's this club, he's going to be playing out for a couple of weeks. So if they're not able to talk anymore at the party, he should come to this club and check him out. He agrees to do that. Well then the next thing you know, somebody's coming to get Bill these two women who they say that their models but they seem very very sexually interested. And it's like their their leading bill like they're trying to physically lead him somewhere. And he asked them where they're going and they say we're going where the rainbow ends. Really weird and one of the girls is last name is Windsor for what that's worth.

Meanwhile, as Bill is being led away to wherever the rainbow ends by these two women, Alice is getting hit on by an older hungry Aryan man who says his name is Sandor. And he's not being subtle in his seduction technique, he keeps telling her that I can show you a victor's art collection. I can show you his sculpture room. It's very clear and he makes like references to marriage. Well, women only got married back in the olden days so they could lose their virginity and have sex with all of these other guys. Come and cheat with me. Let's go to Victor's sculpture room and have sex. As Bill is continuing to have this sexually charged, we're going to drag you off to where the rainbow ends encounter with these two women. Somebody else comes to get him and he's taken to a bathroom where Victor Ziegler who's played by Sydney Pollack has a naked woman sprawled out on this chair in the bathroom. And if you notice the artwork behind her, there's a woman who appears to maybe even perhaps be pregnant. That's also sprawled out in the picture. Very weird, I'm sure not a coincidence. So this lady is sprawled out and Victor tells bill that she's taken a drug cocktail of heroin, and cocaine combined together, she has perhaps overdosed and she's not in good shape. Now, you may recall that the actor John Belushi died at the Chateau Marmont, back in 82, because he was injected with a mixture of heroin and cocaine. So this lady in the bathroom who apparently is named Mandy, Victor acts like he doesn't even really know when we're gonna remember Mandy, they very clearly been engaged in sexual activity, he doesn't even hardly know her name. He just seems to be afraid that she's about to die in the bathroom. Bill manages to revive her. And he tells Victor that she's probably going to be okay, but she does need to be monitored. He also gives this almost fatherly type lecture to Mandy, about, you shouldn't be doing drugs like this, you know, you need to go to rehab. Victor just wants to hurry up, stuff her behind in a taxicab and get her out of there. And Bill is like, No, I don't recommend that you do that she needs to stay here for another hour at least. And then a taxi or a driver somebody needs to go with her to make sure she gets home safely. Victor acts annoyed by this like he just wants to get her out as fast as possible and get back to this weird party. Bill and Alice leave, they get home and after being at this obviously sex filled Party decided that they will have adult relations themselves. The next day, they're back to like Mr. And Mrs. Married, he goes to work at his medical practice. She's at home with the kid wrapping presents and watching television.

And that night, they decide to smoke marijuana. And they get into this weird argument about gender roles. Because Alice is telling him about how the Hungarian man obviously wanting to sleep with her. And she also is concerned about the two women who were obviously hitting on Bill and she asked if he had sex with them. He says no. But then when Alice is talking about the Hungarian man Sandor that was all over her bill is like oddly flattered. Well, of course he is. You're a beautiful woman. I'm sure he didn't want to sleep with you. And she flies off the handle and gets mad tells him the story about a naval officer she saw when they were on vacation the year before and how she would have left everything, including him and including their child to run off and be some wanton, lustful woman with this naval officer if he only wanted her. So she sort of traumatizes in a way. Bill's idea that women don't really think about sex, women don't really care about sex. They're all about security and stability. Men are dogs, they think about sex all the time, but women don't. And in the middle of this weird discussion that they're having about gender roles and sexuality, the phone rings, and he learns that one of his longtime patients has passed away. And so he feels the need to go over to this person's home, make an appearance and console the family. While he's there, the patient's daughter, who is obviously upset about the death of her father starts to kiss bill. And he's sort of like, wait a minute, this is the grief you don't even know what you're feeling, but she tells him that she loves him, that she's engaged to be married, but she doesn't want to move away from the city to be with her fiance because she just wants to be near bill. And he feels like very weirded out by this. It's clearly been an odd freaking night for Bill. She's all over him kissing him and he's resisting her and fortunately, he gets saved by the bell literally because the doorbell rings and he has an opportunity to make his exit. But this encounter with Mary and plays back to what Alice tries to tell him. He makes the argument to Alice that when he's in the doctor's office, even if he's examining a gorgeous woman, and seeing her stark naked, he's not thinking about anything sexual, he's being professional, he's doing his job. And the woman patient is also not thinking about anything sexual, either. She's concerned about her health, she just wants to get in, get the examination over with and not even worry about it. So then when Marian his patients daughter is confessing her love, and she's kissing all over him, you can tell that he is traumatized by not only what the activity is doing, but the significance The mental realization he's coming to as this is happening. After he escaped this encounter with Marian, he goes for another walk, he doesn't go home, which I don't think I would either after being told, Hey, I would leave you and the kid for this other person. If it had worked out, I don't think I would have gone home either. So as he's walking the streets, he encounters a group of guys sound like they're kind of drunk and rowdy. And they push him into a car and use a lot of homophobic slurs. And it's like, I don't even understand the reason for this. It's like they're just picking on him for no reason. He gets picked up by a prostitute doesn't appear that he's out cruising for anybody. Like she cruises him and takes him home. But before anything can happen, Alice calls he feels guilty. And he leaves. He goes to a jazz club. And it is the same jazz club where Nick the piano player is playing that night. His set wraps up they have very little conversation yet again, the same thing that happened at Victor's party. They have very little conversation beyond Hey, I'm married. I got a kid. Oh, yeah, I'm married to but my wife and kids are back in Seattle because I just have to go where the work is. I'm not always home. He gets this mysterious phone call and writes down a password. And then he starts telling Bill about oh, US can imagine. There's this gig that I play. And I'm blindfolded. Except the blindfold wasn't on so good the last time and oh my god, you can't imagine the things that I saw. And these women, they're just next level beautiful. It was crazy. Bill wants to go. But Nick tells him No, I'm not prepared to do that. And besides, you couldn't get in anyway, because you're not wearing a costume. In order to be part of this party. You have to be in a costume and a mask and it's early in the morning slash late at night, you're not going to find a costume now. So where does Bill go? Well, to a costume shop, of course. And even for people that are not in anything conspiracy theory related, it's not lost on you that the costume shop he goes to is called Rainbow, rainbow tuxedo rental and costume rental. And then there's a sign right under that that says under the rainbow. So you immediately think of how the two girls at Victor's party who were basically like pulling bill along talking about they're gonna go where the rainbow ends. There seems to be some kind of connection here. So even though it's a late hour, late at night slash early in the morning, depending on how you want to look at it. Bill goes up to this costume store the rainbow costume rental. And he named dropped somebody named Peter grinning because Peter is supposed to be the owner of rainbow fashions and he says that he wants to come in because he's Mr. Grinning doctor. And so the manager whoever this guy is that's there in the middle of the night. Bazoom in in the midst of dealing with this new owner of this costume shop, Mr. millage, the whole scene there is super disturbing. Because millage doesn't really seem to be in any hurry to get the cloak and the mask that Bill has asked for. And he discovers some type of sex party that has been going on between his daughter who is underage and two grown adult business men who are in various states of cross dressing. Bill Of course, is just standing there like a deer in the headlights. The girl whispers something in his ear. We're not sure what. But the entire scene at the rainbow costume shop is crazy disturbing. Bill leaves this incredibly disturbing and creepy encounter in the costume shop. And he takes a taxi to the location of this party. And you can tell that they're getting further and further out because he's in the city. Then he's in a suburban area. Then he's in a wooded area. And the taxi pulls up to this estate and there's a sign outside that says Somerton and a couple of like Butler looking or security dudes outside of a giant gate with security cameras. Bill bribes the cab driver to stay and keep the meter Running. While he goes into this lavish estate course he has to provide the password to the security dudes out front in order to get access to this crazy party. But as he tells the cab driver, I might be in there for an hour or more, or I might only be for 10 minutes, but stay here and wait on me and the driver agrees to when he gets inside this beautiful opulent estate. The first thing that he sees is this ritual taking place. There's a person in a red cloak, it's like everybody else is in a black cloak. But this person is going around a circle of other people. And this person in the center has on a red cloak and is waving an incense to canter around this type of incense decanter that you would see like in a Catholic or an Orthodox Church. We make the discovery whenever the people in this circle that are wearing the black cloaks, drop the black cloaks, that it's all these beautiful, tall, statuesque women. And one by one this figure in red dismisses these women from the circle. And they begin to go out in the crowd of these additional masked people and pair off presumably for adult activities. And one lady who comes out of the circle immediately goes to Bill, and she tries to warn him, I don't know what you think you're doing. You don't belong here. And he tries to play it off. Like I think you're making the mistake. I don't know what you're talking about. But she's trying in earnest to warn him. Bill goes from room to room in this house. And there's no need to belabor the point here. Suffice it to say room after room in this mansion is just one orgy scene after another. Yet again, this lady tries to warn him to say that he's in great danger, he's not going to be able to fool these people for much longer, and he needs to leave. But it's not clear how she knows who he is why she cares enough to warn him. He says that he'll leave if she will come with him. But she refuses and says that his life is in danger. And so is hers. He wants her to take the mask off, but she refuses will shortly thereafter she breaks away from him. And a butler house person somebody comes up and asks, Are You the man with the taxi waiting? Yes, while your driver is at the front door and needs a word with you. So Bill assumes this is legit. And he goes with the man Bill is called into this room like this entryway type room, or a grand hall or something with all of these costumed people, including the figure in red that's on some sort of a throne chair waiting for him. So it's like he's about to be accused and put on some kind of creepy occultic trial in the middle of this crazy mess. But it's interesting because on on the way to this circumstance, we really see that this orgy is trying to cater to everybody, because we're not just seeing heterosexual men and women. But now we're starting to see same sex couples as well. Which definitely begs the question like who all is involved in these elite parties. Now I don't want to jump ahead because I'm still just summarizing the movie, more or less play by play and trying to hit the important parts. But we're continuing to be creeped out by the things that are happening in this estate. In this weird occult trial, that bill is apparently on, he's forced to remove his mask because he can't come up with the password for the house. He's had the password for admittance to get through the gate, but he can't produce whatever password he was supposed to have known for activities happening in the house. So he's forced to remove his mask. And this figure in red also wants him to strip all of his clothes off.

You don't know what's about to happen. Suddenly, the woman the mystery woman that's been following him around trying to warn him all through this creepy orgy sex party thing appears and says that she is willing to redeem him. Bill asks what's going to happen to her and he's told to mind his own business and get out. And he's further warned that if he says anything to anyone, the consequences will be dire, not only for himself, but for his family. This is something I think about whenever we hear people saying, well, somebody would talk there would be a deathbed confession. Somebody would talk if this and this and that were going on somebody would squeal. First of all yes, there are people who talk and they're typically either discredited as Kooks or weirdos. Or they just suddenly don't exist anymore. But as it is here in the party that Bill has gone to he's told if you breathe a word of this to anybody, it's not only that you are gonna suffer the consequences for it, but your family will suffer the consequences for it too. I mean, this guy has a wife and a young child. And he's had to take his mask off. So all these people in this Orgy Party that are masked, he doesn't know who they are. They know who he is. When Bill gets home, he looks in on his daughter, I'm sure feeling guilty that he has put her life in danger. Now, because of going to this creepy orgy. He finds that Alice is in some sort of weird state, maybe asleep, maybe not. But she's giggling and doesn't appear completely rational. And she tells him about having a dream that was very sex fueled where she was with a lot of other men. And she knew that he could see her. And he starts to realize that maybe there's more to all of this than meets the eye. was Alice there. How how did she just happen to coincidentally have the stream because for all he knows, she thinks that he's still at the home of the dead patient trying to console the family and help them make arrangements. Weird. Bill goes looking for Nick, presumably to warn him or maybe to apologize for what happened but Nick is gone. He's checked out of his hotel under weird circumstances very early in the morning, like presumably right after the party was over with. And he had two guys like rough tumble bodyguard type guys with him. So bill goes back to the costume rentals. I keep using the word creepy because that's a very good word for all this the creepy messed up costume rental store. And he returns everything but discovers that he doesn't have the mask with him. Hey, just put it on the bill. And out comes the girl along with the two older businessmen who were there the night before. But Mr. millage and everybody is all friendly. Hey, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And it's like so was all of the outrage the night before just faux outrage because now they're all BFFs with each other. As a matter of fact, before he leaves Bill confronts Mr. millage about why he hasn't called the police. And Mr. millage lets him know that things change. Other arrangements have been made. And that bill is welcome to come back anytime and not just for a costume. Were you going? Oh, oh, oh. In a moment of what in the hill? Are you thinking dude, bill goes back in his own vehicle to this estate and stands at the gate. And some dude who looks like an anorexic Dick Cheney. Apparently probably some someone that's part of the house staff at this creepy est, comes in hands an envelope to Bill and it has his name already typed on it. Dr. William Harford so clearly, they already knew who he was. There had to have been at least one person there that recognized his face from when he took his mask off. Maybe it was Nick. But maybe it was other people in in the audience as well. Bill is warned not to make any inquiries, just let it go. You've been warned a second time, just let it go. He in addition to being traumatized by what he saw at this orgy, and the occult rituals and everything he also can't get this image out of his head of Alice cheating on him with the naval officer that she confessed she wanted to have an affair with not only have an affair with but that she would have been willing to leave him and their child in order to be with this guy. He goes to his office and he tries to call Marian the lady from earlier in the movie who confessed her love but her fiance answers the phone. So he chickened out and decides to go back to the prostitutes apartment. Bill finds out that the prostitute he did not sleep with found out that she is HIV positive. And her roommate doesn't know she might never be coming back. He is being followed by a creepy man in a trench coat. And he sits down and opens up a newspaper and reads a report about an ex beauty queen who is found overdosed on drugs. Isn't that always the story that we get with any kind of Hollywood type, actor actress, rock star, drugs and alcohol regardless of whatever was really going on in their life. That's always the Hollywood narrative that we get. If you catch it, the headline on the front of the paper is lucky to be alive, which we can assume is probably not thinly veiled reference to Bill himself after his night of debauchery and going where he shouldn't have gone. But if you pay attention to the article that he reads inside the newspaper about this drug overdose, it says ex beauty queen in hotel drugs overdose and her name was Amanda Curran. So think back to Victor's party, Mandy using his credentials as a doctor bill gets access to the morgue of this hospital and makes the connection That Mandy is not only the ex beauty queen who's died of a suppose a drug overdose is the same Mandy that was at Victor Ziegler's party at the beginning. And it's also the woman who seemed to have a true interest in warning him and trying to get him out of the party at the estate. And the woman who shows up and says she's willing to be redeemed in his place so that he can go on living. Bill is summoned back to Victor Ziegler's place, and things start off very chummy very nicely. Hey, you want to scotch? Yeah, great. Sure. Oh, you like it all by your whole case, you want to shoot some pool, and it quickly devolves into your way out of your depth. I know who you were last night. I'm not going to tell you the names of the powerful people that were in that room. But if I did, you wouldn't sleep so well at night. And he tries to convince bill that the situation with Mandy offering herself as a sacrifice or some kind of redemption for bills and tea snuck into the party. That was all just a charade. It was fake. Nothing happened to her. They all just went had sex. They continued their orgy, but nothing murderous happened to this woman. Because they were doing it to fake bill out. They wanted to scare the living daylights out of bill so that he would never try anything like that again, and he would just keep his mouth shut. Of course bill is like well, she odd though she's dead was she was a junkie. When she left the orgy. She was fine. But you know, she was a drug head. She almost died in my bathroom the night of the Christmas party. I mean, it was just going to happen with her. That's what junkies do.

So it it goes from Bill being kind of slapped on the back like Hey, buddy, hey, pal to stay the hell away from this. Don't ever come back. Don't ever dabble with any of this again. And Victor reveals that he knows Bill has been at this Orgy Party because he was there himself. So he warns Bill away. And then he comes back to the friendly Hey, life goes on. People die all the time. Life goes on until one day it doesn't Ha ha ha. Weird. I want to use the word creepy again, I really do because it's creepy. When Bill returns home, he discovers that the mask he had rented from the rainbow costume shop is on the pillow in the bed next to Alice, Alice the sound asleep. But the mask that he had on at the Orgy Party is there on the pillow. Bill breaks down, start solving and agrees to tell Alice everything in the next scene, she's crying. So you assume that he has told her everything and they're both deeply upset by it. They agree to take the kid Christmas shopping because they had promised they would. And in the midst of this toy store, they're having this very adult conversation. And Allah says, I think we should be grateful that we survived whether these things were real, or they were a dream, I think we should just be grateful that we've survived. They also make these philosophical comments about how one night doesn't determine the whole truth. And no dream is ever just a dream. And Alice concludes, the important thing is we're awake now. So when they're talking about being awake, what are they awake to awake to these hyper elite sex orgy drug parties awake to what they thought were the gender differences between men and women. But they have now come to different conclusions awake about the reality of their marriage. It's open to interpretation. So that is the overview of the film. What about the various and sundry conspiracy theories that we find about this final Kubrick film? In his book esoteric Hollywood, Jay Dyer devotes an entire chapter to Eyes Wide Shut because why would you not? If you're going to write a book that centers around occult rituals, occult symbolism in Hollywood, you'd be crazy to omit Eyes Wide Shut, because there is in fact that weird occult ritual that takes place front and center whenever Tom Cruise's character gets into the estate in esoteric Hollywood, Jay Dyer writes, note the similarity of the imagery in Eyes Wide Shut to the Rothschild ball described earlier in chapter one. And the celebrations at the 40th Birthday of Prince Pablos of Greece, as well as revelations concerning French IMF banker Dominique Strauss cons sex parties, as reported by the New York Times in quote, it is interesting. When we look at the imagery that we're allowed to see from that Rothschilds surrealist ball. I'll drop a link to his story that was in the rake You can read it for yourself and look at these pictures. The title of the article is party animals, the Rothschilds surrealist ball, and it shows, large, oversized masks. It shows baby dolls, some of which are broken apart. It shows fruit in various arrangements. And Salvador Dali, who of course, when you're thinking about surrealism, you're automatically going to think about Dolly. A mannequin to two men and top hats above some kind of mannequin with flowers. In this, we read their home and venue for their now mythical surrealist ball was the Chateau de fra said to be the biggest and most luxurious 19th century chateau in France. On seeing his cousins impressive meant more towers in Buckingham share, guys ancestor which is probably gi gese. Ancestor Baron James de Rothschild told its architect, architect Joseph Paxton, build me a mint more but twice the size. All right, so this Chateau has ad guest bedrooms, 30 square kilometers of forest and 120 foot Central Hall Atlas columns, which is something that we see in Eyes Wide Shut because in Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman apartment, in fact, even in the opening scene, where it seems to just be a gratuitous excuse for Nicole Kidman is but to be in the movie. She's standing between two columns. It's also interesting here that the outside shot okay when Tom Cruise gets to the estate, he hasn't gone in yet, but you're looking at the outside of that building. Stanley Kubrick actually does use Mentmore towers, which had belonged to the Rothschild family. So like in this article from the rake, build me a minute more but twice the size. So let's think about this. You're seeing these people in masks all of this disturbing imagery. In fact, there's a picture of a woman with like this deer head on Salvador Dali surrealism. It's funny because Stanley Kubrick actually uses the outside of Mentmore which had belonged to the Rothschilds. And then here's this reference to this Rothschild surrealist ball. I myself don't find that to be coincidental. And then we can go to the Daily Mail and there's an article from 2007 The tycoon talkie and a hell of a party amusingly billed as a heaven and hell fancy dress party. Sorry, there's a pop up that decided to get in the way amusingly billed as a heaven and hell fancy dress party, the 40th Birthday Bash for Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece was one of London's grandest summer events. And when party loving Lord Freddie Windsor, remember, there was a character in the film named Nuala Windsor. And when party loving Freddie Windsor, emerged from Prince Pablos is 12 million pound Chelsea mansion with a gash on his nose. Tongues wagged that the accident prone son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent had become involved in another of his famous scrapes. So apparently there was this heaven and hell party where obviously the theme is heaven and hell. According to France 24 libertine Strauss Kahn admits orgies denies prostitutes. In the byline we read. disgraced former IMF boss Dominique Strauss Kahn, told a French court Tuesday he was unaware that any of the women participating in orgies he attended were paid, contrary to the assertion of one prostitute who insisted it was obvious to anyone. So he is not saying that he wasn't having orgies, just simply he's offended by the idea that there were women who were paid to be there. And he describes these parties as being simply libertines who enjoyed consensual group sex with like minded women, and describes himself as a libertine who likes to party and then he would have libertine afternoons festive and playful afternoons and Paris. Oh, but then when we see what was going on, in Eyes Wide Shut, if it was something like that, obviously, I wouldn't call that festive and playful. I would, I would find that terribly disturbing. Maybe that's me. Maybe I'm just a big old square. I don't know. But oh, no, thank you. So when we go on list verse.com They've done a good job of pulling together to attend a top 10 list of what they're calling creepy controversies around, Eyes Wide Shut. And I'm sure there are more than this. As with any topic that spawns conspiracy theories, you can find things that range from the plausible the likely to things that are just so off the wall they don't even merit discussion. So here we go top 10 Creepy controversies around, Eyes Wide Shut number 10. Is Stanley Kubrick sudden death. Perhaps the conspiracy surrounding Eyes Wide Shut began when the maker of the film Stanley Kubrick died only days after the first viewing of it. The official cause of death was from a heart attack. However, as we might imagine, there were many who believed his death was far from natural, in quote,

maybe, you know, I plan to record an episode, there's a book as always, I feel like this is the story of my life. There's a book I want to read, there's a documentary I want to watch. There's a book that I want to read about twip programs terminate with extreme prejudice. And I got on this topic a couple of different ways. One was by reading Richard Belters book hit list, and another was by watching this video. It was one of the interviews conducted in the British documentary series, the men who killed Kennedy. Again, these are all things that really need to be their own separate episodes. But one of the one of the components in the series was Judith, very Baker, who claims to have been Lee Harvey Oswald mistress, as well as a cancer researcher. And she has some pretty bold claims about the research that they were doing along with David Ferrie mean, it's known that he kept mice in his apartment and that he was working on some kind of cancer research. The accusations that Judith makes are pretty upsetting, disturbing. But in this idea of terminate with extreme prejudice programs, and one of the things that I want to talk about when I record that episode is the notion are these things like, should like darts, for example, ways that somebody can be shot with a drug, and it causes them to have a heart attack? Or they're injected with cancer cells, and it causes them to get some rapidly growing form of cancer? Are those theories true? Is that just the realm of spy novels and spy movies? Or do the intelligence agencies and spy organizations do? Do they have powers to be able to do that? Not saying, of course, that that's what happened to Kubrick. But the timing of it is weird. Mean, right, right after the film is pulled together, and also this dovetails into another conspiracy theory that several minutes of film that were deemed too hot for TV, were cut from the film and Kubrick was mad about it. Is it weird and unfortunate timing? Yes. Does that mean that something sinister was done? No, not necessarily. You be the judge. The timing of the sudden death is weird. Number nine allegations of cutscenes from the finished film, the main conspiracy as to why some people believe Kubrick was murdered revolves around a damage limitation mission ordered by elite financial backers in Hollywood. It is the belief of some that upon seeing Kubrick's film at the first viewing, they decided much of the content had to be cut away. Not confident that Kubrick would agree he was known very much for his determination in such matters, and consequently, fearing a surge of publicity from any fallout, a decision was taken to remove Kubrick from the picture permanently in quote, unless that sound is completely and totally off completely bizarre. There is a passage in Maury Terry's book The Ultimate Evil that that book needs to be its own separate episode for sure. There's a passage in that book where we we've gone from learning about Berkowitz and the sons of Sam and the things going on in Yonkers out to Hollywood, and Maury Terry talks about the relationship between Robert Evans and Roy Raiden. And how Roy Raiden was found dead and not just found dead but brutally murdered with a shotgun. And there was a defaced Bible that was found close to the body. Mercy Roy Raiden and Robert Evans were trying to get financing put together for that movie The Cotton Club back in the 80s. So is it completely unrealistic to think that financial backers for a Hollywood movie would just want somebody to not be in the picture anymore? I don't personally think that's out of the question. No You'd be the judge for yourself. Number eight hints of Illuminati activity. Okay, so why exactly is the content of the film so controversial? Ultimately it is because it appears to lean heavily on many of the Illuminati and secret society conspiracies that have been around for decades. Perhaps the main drive of these rituals is that such secret societies use mind controlled sex slaves. In some cases with high class sex slaves. They're also used to pass top secret information between world leaders and high ranking members. We will come back to some of the alleged specific symbols used to convey this message a little later. Yes, I mean, that certainly that is one reason that conspiracy theories abound with Eyes Wide Shut because you are using occult rituals and high high class sex slaves. They're these beautiful, tall, statuesque women's that are used in the rituals. Women. I think it's like women's women that are used in the rituals. mean that's like we find out in that newspaper clipping that Mandy was a former beauty queen. So even though Victor is trying to convince us Sydney Pollack's character Victor is trying to convince us that she's slumped down and out or dream Dustin junkie, you know, that's how junkies are. It's like, but is that true, though? Where are they shooting her up with drugs. Number seven, the depiction of the Rothschild party. One of the main parts of the film revolves around a secret party at a lavish mansion, and it looks almost exactly like the mansion owned by Baron ghee and Baroness Marie Helene de Rothschild, the Chateau de fer a, what's more of the mansion was subjected to a mysterious masked party hosted by the owners in 1972. Photographs of which have been leaked online, and is even claimed the invites to the surrealist ball were sent with coded wording. Furthermore, the wording was written backwards so that it could only be read in a mirror. Even stranger as the guests arrived at the mansion, it was bathed in a deep red glow. This was to give the appearance of it being on fire. When you look at the pictures, which I hope you will do for yourself, don't take my word for it, go and look at the pictures that have been published of this party. And it is surreal. It is weird, then you couple that with Kubrick deciding to use as the external shots, a manner that had been owned by the Rothschild family that just feels a little bit too connected to be a truly random coincidence. Number six suggestions of mind control. We mentioned mind control in an earlier point, and how the film appears to drop discrete messages of this throughout. Perhaps one of the main ways this is done is by the constant references to rainbows throughout the movie. It is claimed by some conspiracy researchers that rainbows are a reference to the MK Ultra Mind Control techniques used by high ranking elite members. And this is particularly the case when this is done to create sex slaves and quote MK Ultra really absolutely needs to be its own episode probably more than one. But we do see this rainbow imagery multiple times in this film and it is connected to

sexual blackmail, prostitution. I mean the two girls that are well women, two women that are trying to lead Tom Cruise's character off where the rainbow ends, they are obviously trying to lure him off for sex. And in fact, when one of the house staff members comes to get Bill to take him to Victor's assistance, the two girls look worried. They don't look like off. Well, we missed out on the opportunity to have sex with this guy. We'll just go find somebody else. They looked worried. They look concerned like they have failed in some kind of mission. And I honestly wondered if a subtext just my opinion, and it could be wrong. But I had had honestly wondered if maybe a subtext there. Because you have Sandor working so hard to get Alice to go off to another room and have sex then you have these two women working so hard to try to get Bill to go off to another room and have sex. Is this some kind of honey trap scenario? Does Victor have a room ala Epstein? Where things are being filmed? They're gonna they're going to make blackmail pornography of people. Just a thought. Number five Masonic symbols are everywhere. As we might imagine, there are numerous Masonic symbols and references within Eyes Wide Shut. And this happens right from the off at the beginning of the film. For example, when we see Alice play by Nicole Kidman undressing ready for bed she does so while standing in between two large pillars. It is claimed that these represent Masonic pillars. It is also discreet appearances of the star of Ishtar in the film another strong masonic symbol. Perhaps the most obvious Masonic symbols can be seen in the scene where Dr. Bill has been discovered at the party and is standing in the main hall in front of the cult leader. This leader sits on a throne that contains a two headed eagle. On the back of it. The two headed eagle is a primary emblem to the 33 degree. Scottish Rite Freemasons, one of the most powerful Masonic organizations in the world. And Jay Dyer in esoteric Hollywood also gets into that particular symbology in the film. Number four sex slave rituals. A great part of the film revolves around the idea that women from all backgrounds of life have been somehow subjected to mind control programs. And the reason for this is mainly so they can be used as sex slaves at the society secret gatherings, we have already mentioned the rainbow aspect relating to mind control. However, another clue can be found in the term often used in such scenarios of scarlet woman. Several of the main characters that surround Dr. Bill all have Scarlet hair. Interesting. One thing we know for sure is that there are definitely sex slave rituals that are depicted in this film, it's front and center. Number three hints at murders disguised as overdoses or suicides. Toward the end of the film, one of the prostitutes who was at the party seemingly as a mind controlled sex slave is discovered dead. It is reported in the media that she died of a drug overdose. However, in a later scene, it is revealed to Dr. Bill that the high ranking members of the secret society control all of the media and even the police, anybody at all, in fact, who might cause a problem with their activities. Furthermore, while it is not said outright, it is heavily implied that she was murdered and her death made to look like an overdose and quote, I will tell you, this is definitely one of the conspiracy theories that I believe is true. It's just too easy, especially with the Hollywood types, or anybody that's living what we would consider to be a high risk lifestyle. If somebody is going to sex parties to orgies, they're performing sex work, just ipso facto, we would consider that to be a high risk lifestyle. It's so easy in Hollywood, well, you know, actors, you know, actresses, you know, rock stars, they're Sex, drugs and rock and roll all the time. They party hard, they play hard. So it's like, if you live hard, and you live fast, you're probably going to die fast, too. So people don't ask a lot of questions. You know, if somebody has a random or weird suicide, even if all of their closest friends and family members are like he was happy, there was no indication that this was coming. Then well, the person was on drugs, they had the secret demons, they were doing things that nobody knew about. And no matter how odd the method of execution is, you're just supposed to believe it was a suicide and then don't ask any questions. Number two, why is it called Eyes Wide Shut? The reason the film is called Eyes Wide Shut, at least according to some researchers is a blatant reference to Hollywood and the number of people who allegedly no this kind of activity is taking place yet do not say anything about it. And like the conspiracies of the lit, the alleged Illuminati such talk has been rife in Hollywood for years. And while some people have spoken out they're usually left as lone wolves with no one willing to corroborate their accounts and quote, I would agree with that one, too, that people get discredited as Kooks, drug heads, weirdos, or they just get done away with the lone wolf theme. We also see this in things like the JFK Pop Pop, with Lee Harvey Oswald just a lone wolf. He was a nobody a little shrimpy dude who had nothing going for him. But he wanted to be somebody. He wanted to be a tough guy. So he took out the president. I mean, we hear the lone wolf narrative all the time. Somebody goes nuts. You're not supposed to look at any of their mental health history or what Dr. UGS is that they were taking at the time that might have impacted their brain chemistry? No, you're not supposed to do that. They were a lone wolf. They were a kook. They were crazy. Okay. And then number one, in light of the Epstein allegations, what should we think? Although the rumors were rampant for years when the revelations about the secret sex parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein on his private island came to light recently, it caused many people to look again at such claims of secret societies made of high ranking people. And that at least for some included another look at Eyes Wide Shut with what we know now of Epstein Island and there is surely more to come to light. Should we take some of the claims of real messages of eyes wide shot a little more seriously might as some researchers will tell you the Epstein case simply have been the tip of the iceberg. Might the happenings and Eyes Wide Shut be going on behind closed doors in real life? Right under our collective noses. And if they are we ever truly discover anything about them? To end on a cliche Only time will tell in quote. I mean, probably some things here and there. I mean, that's like the story. I have this Dominique Strauss Kahn admitting to orgies. I'm denying that there were paid hookers there, God forbid. But we're just all bunch of libertines having these afternoon sex orgies and we're going to have some champagne and we're going to all bang and it's whatever. And then there's the Rothschilds surrealist ball, people are gonna put on weird masks and costumes and have dead baby dolls and weird mannequins set out. But no, you're not supposed to believe that any of this really happens, even though there's photographic evidence of it happening. You're not supposed to believe that it's really happening. If you think that any of that's real, you're just a conspiracy theorist, you're the Kook, you're the nut ball, you're the weirdo. Meanwhile, we have proof that it's happening. As this article talks about, look at what was going on with Epstein and Epstein Island. I mean, we know now it's out in the open, that he had rooms where there was audio and video recording so that at any point in time, whoever was there as his guest, whether they were having relationships with women grown women that were of age, or whether they were having relationships with children who were not of age, things were being filmed. And yes, Spy and intelligence organizations do the same thing with their honey traps, they get prostitutes, to seduce people so that they can start teasing secrets out of them. And as well as having a blackmail footage of God knows what kind of fetishes and perversion that go on in such rooms. So for me, I think the Eyes Wide Shut probably does touch on more reality than people are willing to face. And I think that's part of the reference to Eyes Wide Shut. Most people would rather go through live Eyes Wide Shut than to be aware of what's happening. I see this all the time in my work with the economy and the job market. It's not difficult to lay your evidence out and say, here's why I think the job market is a hot dumpster fire. Here's why I think the hyper elites and the cronies are going to continue to squeeze every dime out of you. And it doesn't really matter whether we have inflation, deflation, whether the Fed goes back to QE or they stick with Qt, it doesn't really matter. The job market is too far gone. Whatever correction that it has, it's going to come with job losses. And John and Jane Q Public are going to be steam rolled by what's coming. I can tell that to people till I'm blue in the face and a lot of them won't listen, then want to plug their fingers in their ears and not even think about the economy and the job market until they're laid off will shit by then it's too late. By the time you're laid off, and you're out on the street, it's too late, you've waited too late. You don't just then need to be making a game plan you need to have had a game plan in place, and you need to be looking out for yourself.

And I think that's what Kubrick was trying to do in his own way was to warn people, yes, these sex parties, these orgies, these women that are manipulated and basically sold into sex, slavery, all of these things are real. This is how the upper echelon, the upper upper echelon of power brokers really behave. This is the kind of stuff that they do. Personally, I think that that that's what Kubrick was doing. Some of the other symbols, like Jay Dyer seems to think that some of the symbols in the Ziegler Christmas party were inverted pentagrams that refer to Satanism? Or that Sandor is a nod to Anton Sandor LaVey. Maybe, I think that we can look at all sorts of small details in the film, and make judgments based on them. For me, thinking about the broad stroke of do these oddities really happen? Is this really how these hyper elites protect each other? You know, somebody can die at a party, and it's made to look like a drug overdose. Yes, I think that those things happen. That's just my opinion. And it could be wrong, but that's what I think. What about you? What do you think? Do you think that these conspiracy theories and ideas about Eyes Wide Shut are true? Maybe yes, maybe. No. It's a point to ponder. Stay a little crazy. And I will see you in the next episode.

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