Eyes Wide Shut.......What Does It All Mean???

[hmkpoker]

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Certainly the mass of men who are as successful as Tom Cruise's character was in the movie do not.

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The group of people who are as successful as Tom Cruise's character do not constitute the masses of men that Thoreau was talking about.

[andyfox]

Then a comparison of Eyes Wide Shut's subject matter to Thoreau's comment is not apt. Even when Sydney Pollack was explaining things to Cruise it was in a gorgeous room over a sumptuous pool table and brandies. That these men lead contrived lives, or lives of quiet desperation, is simply not believable.

[madnak]

I think Thoreau's comments apply more, if anything, to people like Cruise's character.

His life was about as artificial as could be. And his desperation is as evident as his anxiety.

[CharlieDontSurf]

if its good enough for scorsese its good enough for me.