Once fidelity is violated, it can never be restored. Doubles and mirrors recur throughout this film. And Bill and Alice are mirrored by other couples in the film. When they walk into the Christmas party and greet their hosts, the Zieglers, the pairs perfectly reflect each other in the shot. The Zieglers are a richer, more powerful version of our couple, representing the class and status aspect of their lives.
A little later we meet Marian and Carl. In this pair, the man wears glasses instead of the female, but they have the same hair colors and vaguely similar looks. There may be an element of autobiography in this film for Kubrick.
What sets this whole drama in motion is Alice revealing her lust for a naval officer she saw on vacation. All of these perverse, dark, difficult human impulses are universal. The erotic femininity she exudes as she describes her true feelings strikes him as confrontational.
A recurring idea in Eyes Wide Shut is the impulse to go where the rainbow ends. The film has images of rainbows, and the custom store Bill goes to is called Under the Rainbow. So the suggestion is that, in this night of chasing his desire, Bill is trying to find the end of the rainbow.
Notably, the secret ritual gathering is lacking a Christmas tree, while the rest of the film is dominated by Christmas tree lights everywhere Bill goes. So while the lovely, glittering illusion exists elsewhere, there the cold, hard truth is undecorated.
And this bare, ugly reality is perhaps the true meaning of where the rainbow ends. He is quickly outed due to his naturally strange behaviour, but is saved from whatever consequences the cult intended for him when a girl kind to him since the beginning agrees to take the fall in his stead.
Even after he is evicted with a warning, Bill continues to find clues to lead him to the girl who saved him, but eventually learns that even Nick had suffered the consequences of his visit to the mansion. Whilst returning the dress and costumes to Milich, he discovers that he had lost the mask and that Milich was now prostituting his daughter: no better way to put that.
The degree of her fantasy is revealed too when she said she actually contemplated leaving him and Helena for the officer. The dialogue in that one scene really brings out her conflicted nature about the scenario, with her lust for the naval officer clearly getting the better of her, with nothing but the obligation to her marriage and whatever love she felt in that moment for Bill helping her overcome that.
The same is also tested when an older Hungarian man tries to seduce his way into possibly courting Alice for sex despite knowing that she was married. However, she is truly at her breaking point when she has another dream: one where she has sex with the naval officer and a group of other man, even mocking and laughing at Bill as he helplessly watches on in the dream, as described by Alice. Sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime can ever be the whole truth.
And no dream is ever just a dream. The ending of the film, thereby, is as difficult to comprehend as you want it to be, and as simple in Kubrickian terms as the text above.
With this film, Kubrick is taking on "the causes and effects of depersonalized sex. There is freedom in anonymity, but also isolation and a complete dearth of emotion" Reel Views.
After this encounter, Bill finally realizes the dark side of this world of sex and anonymity, returning to his wife Alice's side. She is still open with him about her past sexual fantasies, but in the end they stay loyal to each other, happy that their marriage and mutual sexual attraction have survived this long. It's safe to say that Kubrick had a reputation for being quite the demanding and unusual filmmaker.
Although many people are familiar with his abuse of Shelley Duvall on the set of "The Shining," some might not know just how crazy it was to make "Eyes Wide Shut," the director's last film. Along with how long it took to film the movie, Kubrick put his main two actors through a lot of intense experiences. The director took take after take of the same scene, but not because he had a detailed vision in mind.
He's eventually discovered and forced to remove his mask but is saved from a bleak fate by another masked woman who tried to warn him to leave earlier. The second half of Eyes Wide Shut sees Bill being given ominous warnings from this secret society, and he can't seem to find his mask from the party.
In one of the final scenes, Bill comes home and as he comes to bed he sees Alice Nicole Kidman sleeping next to the same Venetian mask he wore at the party. He then breaks down crying and confesses to Alice his misadventures of the past few days. The big question is how did the mask get there, and who left it?
The most obvious answer is Alice found the mask and left it out as a way to let Bill know she knew something was going on.
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