Mask Eyes Wide Shut Tom Cruise, original mask from the movie.

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Base Coherence (4) – You can clearly trace the path of the lead right from the beginning to the end baring one exception (the beach scene). This concept is plugged into the plot very well, and we see the characters get creative, given the limitations. I also love the concept of the 5-dimensional space that presents the past through various moments in time. Base Coherence (4) – The film takes the multi-timeline approach as each of the pathways of time are branches of different realities.

Time Travel Mechanics (2) – We’re told that a science experiment, which one of the characters has been doing, unintentionally sends people into loops. Time Travel Mechanics (3) – The concept of a camera taking photographs of the future is not original. Repercussion (2) – As in most time-loop movies, the lead character remembers details from previous loops and uses them to narrow down on his objective. But it doesn’t get too complicated as there is no way for the lead to run into alternate versions of himself or has any control beyond the 8 minutes. Repercussion (3) – Since the lead character is a nice guy, he uses his powers for very moderate changes to his past.Eyes Wide Shut opens on top". BBC. July 19, 1999. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015 . Retrieved October 28, 2012. Keesey, Douglas (June 22, 2001). "They Kill for Love – CineAction". Cineaction. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020 . Retrieved May 26, 2015. However, it was hard to get behind the lead character and feel for her and that’s why this film doesn’t excel in this list. What critics saw as dated, I saw as timeless. Though it technically takes place in 1990s New York, the film keeps one boot planted firmly in the fin de siècle world of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella. The opening credits are set to a waltz; the gentleman who hits on Nicole Kidman’s character in the following scene is an elegant Hungarian; the film’s iconic centerpiece, a masked ritual that turns into an orgy, seems like the sort of affair that might have titillated Gustav Klimt. And then there’s Tom Cruise’s character, the amazingly naïve Dr. Bill Harford. Early on, when his wife suggests that his patients are horny for him, he assures her that women “don’t think like that” — as if he would know better than her. She falls to her knees laughing, then reveals that she was once so taken with a hot sailor that she fantasized about giving up their marriage (and even their daughter) for a single night with the guy.

Garrett Brown, inventor of the Steadicam, has expressed that he considers Eyes Wide Shut to be an unfinished film:It’s quite interesting to follow the reasoning as to why the future is now vastly different even though the change made was relatively small. César" (in French). Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019 . Retrieved September 11, 2012. Base Coherence (5) – Since the newer loops erase the previous ones, there is not much opportunity to mess things up. Most timeloop films end up with a full score in this section.

That said, the central airport scene is presented mysteriously in so many perspectives, and the reveal at the end is quite brilliant.

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Coherence (3) – Given the Repercussion is a 5, the Coherence is the same as Base Coherence for this film. Coherence (4) – Given the Repercussion score is a 5, the Coherence score is the same as the Base Coherence score for this film.