Eyes Wide Shut and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey

In the late 1970s, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick discovered a short story by psychologist and philosopher Arthur Schnitzler called Traumnovelle, or "Dream Story". Penetrating into the precise mechanisms that govern human desire, emotion, and fantasy, the story caught Kubrick's imagination, and became his pet project that he would devote the rest of his life to, along with the unfinished epics "A.I." and "Napolean Bonaparte". Unfortunately, AI is being produced as I type by Steven Spielberg. …

…actly what Kubrick intended us to: that this is not just a story about a man named Bill and a woman named Alice. As t! he great myths are, it is about everyone; It is about you. So to whoever chooses to partake on a similar confrontation or adventure, be it a series of physical trials or merely an idea played out in the dreams and fantasies, dreams are as malicious as reality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**