Stanley Kubrick movies are usually widely beloved and critically acclaimed, but theyâre also occasionally weird and confusing. Eyes Wide Shut in particular is famously weird and confusing, and now filmmaker Tony Zierraâthe director behind Filmworker, which is about Kubrickâs assistant Leon Vitaliâhas told Variety that his next project will be a documentary dedicated to trying to make sense out of Eyes Wide Shut. âMany people âjust donât get it,â he tells Variety, adding, âIt makes no sense to them. The casting doesnât make any sense to them. The story doesnât make any sense to them.â
Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and though it includes various twists and turns, itâs largely about Cruiseâs strange adventures in and around a mysterious and exclusive orgy. Kubrick died while the movie was in post-production, adding to the fact that a lot of people didnât really know what to make of it when it came out. Zierraâs filmâcurrently titled SK13 as Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrickâs 13th movieâwill hopefully explain some of the nuances of those strange adventures and shed some light on what it all means, but hopefully itâll do it without descending into inexplicably dull conspiracy theories like that other documentary that tried to explain a Kubrick movie.
