Much has been made in recent days of the prescient verisimilitude of Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this summer – just as America caught a glimpse of the life-world of the late Jeffrey Epstein, who died by an apparent suicide last weekend while in pretrial custody on sex-trafficking charges.
The film, for those who haven’t watched it, follows a New York physician, Dr Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise), on a surreal journey into the dark side following a tiff with his wife (Nicole Kidman). The climactic point of the journey takes him inside a mansion, somewhere presumably in Tony Westchester county, where dozens of masked men get intimate with many more supermodel-like women.
