Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden In Plain Sight (2nd Edition) (PLAYTHINGS OF THE WEALTHY ELITE)

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Hidden in Plain Sight (2011)

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Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut closes not with erotic spectacle but in a toy shop at Christmastime, where symbols of desire, class, power, and artificiality converge. Helena’s fascination with dolls and fairy tales like The Nutcracker and Babes in Toyland mirrors her parents’ own entrapment as playthings in a world ruled by wealth and illusion. The store’s shelves of mass-produced toys, occult echoes, and uncanny doppelgängers tie back to Kubrick’s lifelong motif of synthetic beings—masks, mannequins, costumes, and machines—suggesting that every character is a puppet in a larger game.

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