2 Minute Movie Scene

One of the most captivating scenes is from Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'. The entire moving is fairly creepy and even makes the viewer look over their shoulder in fear. The director brilliantly instilled feelings of curiosity, fear, and guilt within there main character, exemplified by a variety of close up shots to convey meaning in the place of dialogue, coupled with a bizarre soundtrack made entirely out of church organs, and deep and solemn piano tones in congruence with high pitched keys.

One particular scene from 'Eyes Wide Shut' in which Kubrick captures the culmination of the main characters' fear is when Tom Cruise sneaks into a sex cult hosting a party in a mansion outside of the city and gets caught. All of the scenes from the party are strange as they mix ritualistic sexual practices and borderline dogmatic connotations that catch the viewer off guard. In addition, all of the actors, including Tom Cruise blend together as they are all wearing strange masks which serve as frightening on their own. The most superb two minutes of this film are when Tom Cruise is escorted by a masked butler to huge room in which he is interrogated by what appears to be the leader of the cult dressed in religious garments such as that of the pope in blood red. As Cruise makes his way toward the leader, the circle, which was once open, closes behind him. Cruise is literally swallowed hole by the black cloaks that engulf him as his stands alone over the blood red carpet. As the character walks deeper into the circle, his cloak looks blue as he stands under a spotlight. The spotlight not only further conveys the severity of the situation Cruise is in but now the viewer sees his blue cloak standing apart from the black cloaks behind him, emphasizing that Cruise is different and alone.

As Tom Cruise is questioned by the leader of the group, the camera pans back and forth between close up shots of one cult member to the next, all wearing creepy masks. The camera even stops and focuses on certain masks with protruding noses and strange human-like faces in somewhat of a worm hole angle to convey power and seriousness. Even better, as Tom Cruise is interrogated, the camera pans around the room behind the the black guises of the other members, making the main character look even smaller and helpless. Cruise is asked to remove his mask after he fails to remember the password for access to the house. As he lifts his hands up to touch his face and remove his white mask which differs from all of the ghoulish masks around him, the tempo of the piano gets faster and faster in anticipation, and suddenly stops as Cruise removes his mask, revealing his sweaty face and clammy palms.

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