Eyes Wide Shut, and pub

[ciphergoth]

First off, come to the pub tonight!

Second, I watched Eyes Wide Shut on C5 last night. What was that all about then?

Lots of impressive but meaningless imagery, very very slow plot development, rather irritating incidental music and an inconclusive conclusion. I saw lots of sex-related imagery, but if there was a sexual morality fable in there, a warning against "empty, meaningless sex" or otherwise, then it passed me by. To me, it was a warning that if you gatecrash a party and someone warns you to get away before they kill you, do as they say. Also a warning against telling people you don't know very well about things you've been paid to keep secret; or against working for organisations that have people killed in the first place.

At one point, taxis refuse to pick him up because he's crossed the Bad Guys. What did they do, send a fax to every taxi driver in New York saying "don't pick this guy up, photo attached, signed the Bad Guys"? Or did they write "don't pick me up" on Tom Cruise's forehead while he slept, in a special ink that only taxi drivers can see?

I think EWS doesn't work for me because it depends on the audience imagining that sex parties are the most forbidden and secret thing there could ever be. I'd like to wave a little flag at this point and say that, in common with many of you reading this of course, I go to sex parties quite often, they're generally jolly good fun, and people hardly ever get murdered! After watching EWS, I wanted to write that on banners and hang them out the window.

Though it did make me wonder if an opening ceremony at a sex party might be a cool thing. Unfortunately that would require people turning up on time...

Comments

[reddragdiva]

The Rich and Powerful are as tediously banal as the rest of us.

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

I know plenty of people who aren't all that tediously banal.

I'm sure if everyone on ciphergoth's friends list were Rich and Powerful we'd think of far more interesting things to do Behind Closed Dooors. Like ritually humiliate people liek George W. Bush, in the name of some silly initiation ritual.

Yes, that's it; if I were running a secret society of the mega-rich, I'd let people like George W. join, and put them through a horribly embarrasing and humiliating ritual in front of all the other members, and then I'd only invite them to half the secret parties/rituals/whatever. Of course, they wouldn't even know about the other parties/rituals/whatever, where all the really fun stuff would happen.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

In Dubya's case, the ritual humiliation would have to go fatally wrong. Oops! We forgot to load his and Sharon's duelling pistols with blanks!

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

hmmm... I see a problem there. You see, one or other of them might live. Best to be safe and have him duel with someone you like, and give Bush blanks. Same deal for Sharon.

[zz]

or you could just have a tournament of all the ppl you don't like, with as many rounds as necessary (*giggles internally at unintentionl gun and crypto references*), so you're only left with one of them alive to dispose of (or not), while everyone else does something more interesting in the meantime..

that's given me an idea for an experiment. 3 ppl in a locked room or something each given a gun loaded with one bullet, tell them any survivors can only get out when someone's dead, and see what happens.. :)

[silverclear.livejournal.com]

have you seen a bizarre film called 'battle royale'? it's a similar theory only there can only be one survivor and it's on an island... but the principle is the same. very strange film.

[zz]

yep, several times :>

[reddragdiva]

"I know plenty of people who aren't all that tediously banal."

OK - the Rich and Powerful are as tediously banal as the rest of me ;-)

[lovingboth]

He's already been in one - wasn't he, like daddy, a member of Skull and Bones at Yale?

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he was.

Still, I wanna see him undergo ritual humiliation, don't you?

While blindfold, of course. How much fun would that be?